Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts

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Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts – Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge: The Michael Mystery

“Leading thoughts” and “Letters” written for members of the Anthroposophical Society (CW 26)

“The leading thoughts here given are meant to open up subjects for study and discussion. Points of contact with them will be found in countless places in the anthroposophic books and lecture courses, so that the subjects thus opened up can be enlarged upon and the discussions in the groups centered around them.”  – Rudolf Steiner

This key volume contains Rudolf Steiner’s “leading thoughts,” or guiding principles, and related letters to members of the Anthroposophical Society. In brief, aphoristic paragraphs, Steiner succinctly presents his spiritual science as a modern path of knowledge.

These 185 thoughts constitute invaluable, clear summaries of Steiner’s fundamental lines of thought—indeed, they contain the whole of Anthroposophy. They are intended not as doctrine, but to stimulate and focus one’s study and discussion of spiritual science.

“Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe…. Anthroposophy communicates knowledge that is gained in a spiritual way….There are those who believe that with the limits of knowledge derived from sense perception the limits of all insight are given. Yet if they would carefully observe how they become conscious of these limits, they would find in the very consciousness of the limits the faculties to transcend them.”  – Rudolf Steiner

This volume is a translation of Anthroposophische Leitsätze, Der Erkenntnisweg der Anthroposophie—Das Michael-Mysterium. (GA 26)

CONTENT:

  • Introduction
  • Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts
  • On the Picture-Nature of Man
  • Understanding of the Spirit; Conscious Experience of Destiny
  • Spiritual Kingdoms and Human Self-Knowledge
  • How the Leading Thoughts are to be Used
  1. At the Dawn of the Michael Age.
  2. The Condition of the Human Soul Before the Dawn of the Michael Age.

2a. Aphorisms from a Lecture to Members Given in London on August 24th, 1924.

  1. The Way of Michael, and What Preceded It.
  2. Michaels Task in the Sphere of Ahriman.
  3. The Experiences of Michael in the Course of His Cosmic Mission.
  4. The Activity of Michael and the Future of Mankind.
  5. The Michael-Christ-Experience of Man.
  6. Michaels Mission in the Cosmic Age of Human Freedom.
  7. The World-Thoughts in the Working of Michael and in the Working of Ahriman.
  8. First Study: At the Gates of the Spiritual Soul (Consciousness-Soul). How Michael in the Spiritual World is Preparing for His Earth-Mission through the Conquest of Lucifer.
  9. Second Study: How the Michael Forces Work in the Earliest Unfolding of the Spiritual Soul.
  10. Second Study (Continued). Hindrances and Helps to the Michael Forces in the Dawn of the Age of the Spiritual Soul.
  11. Third Study: Michael is Suffering Over Human Evolution Before the Time of His Earthly Activity.
  12. A Christmas Study: The Mystery of the Logos.
  13. Heavenly History – Mythological History – Earthly History. The Mystery of Golgotha.
  14. What is Revealed When One Looks Back into Repeated Lives on Earth.
  15. What is Revealed When One Looks Back into Former Lives Between Death and a New Birth – I
  16. What is Revealed When One Looks Back into Former Lives Between Death and a New Birth – II
  17. What is the Earth in Reality within the Macrocosm?

About the Author

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up (see right). As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.

Additional information

Weight 16 oz
Dimensions 6 × 0.75 × 9 in
Author

Translator

Mary Adams

ISBN13

9781855840966

ISBN10

1855840960

Published

December 1973

Format

Paperback

Pages

224

CW/GA

CW 26

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

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