{"id":12908,"date":"2021-05-27T18:34:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/?p=12908"},"modified":"2021-05-27T18:34:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T18:34:42","slug":"knowledge-of-the-higher-worlds-and-its-attainment-by-rudolf-steiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lediemchihue.com\/?p=12908","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds And Its Attainment By Rudolf Steiner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Rudolf Steiner<\/strong>, (born February 27, 1861, Kraljevi\u0107, Austria\u2014died March 30, 1925, Dornach, Switzerland), Austrian-born spiritualist, lecturer, and founder of anthroposophy<\/a>, a movement based on the notion that there is a spiritual world comprehensible to pure thought but accessible only to the highest faculties of mental knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attracted in his youth to the works of Goethe<\/a>, Steiner edited that poet\u2019s scientific works and from 1889 to 1896 worked on the standard edition of his complete works at Weimar. During this period he wrote his Die Philosophie der Freiheit<\/em> (1894; \u201cThe Philosophy of Freedom\u201d), then moved to Berlin to edit the literary journal<\/a> Magazin f\u00fcr Literatur<\/em> and to lecture. Coming gradually to believe in spiritual perception<\/a> independent of the senses, he called the result of his research \u201canthroposophy,\u201d centring on \u201cknowledge produced by the higher self in man.\u201d In 1912 he founded the Anthroposophical Society<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steiner believed that humans once participated more fully in spiritual processes of the world through a dreamlike consciousness<\/a> but had since become restricted by their attachment to material things. The renewed perception of spiritual things required training the human consciousness<\/a> to rise above attention to matter. The ability to achieve this goal by an exercise of the intellect is theoretically innate in everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1913 at Dornach, near\u00a0Basel<\/a>,\u00a0Switzerland<\/a>, Steiner built his first Goetheanum, which he characterized as a \u201cschool of spiritual science.\u201d After a fire in 1922, it was replaced by another building. The\u00a0Waldorf School<\/a>\u00a0movement, derived from his experiments with the Goetheanum, by the early 21st century had more than 1,000 schools around the world. Other projects that grew out of Steiner\u2019s work include\u00a0communities<\/a>\u00a0for persons with disabilities; a therapeutic clinical centre at Arlesheim, Switzerland; scientific and mathematical research centres; and schools of drama, speech, painting, and sculpture. Among Steiner\u2019s varied writings are\u00a0The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity<\/em>\u00a0(1894),\u00a0Occult Science: An Outline<\/em>\u00a0(1913), and\u00a0Story of My Life<\/em>\u00a0(1924).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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