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Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen: In acht Meditationen

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Inhalt:
ERSTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht eine wahre Vorstellung von dem physischen Leib zu gewinnen.
ZWEITE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht eine wahre Vorstellung von dem elementarischen oder ätherischen Leib zu gewinnen.
DRITTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht sich Vorstellungen zu bilden über die hellsichtige Erkenntnis der elementarischen Welt.
VIERTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht eine Vorstellung von dem "Hüter der Schwelle" zu bilden.
FÜNFTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht eine Vorstellung des "astralischen Leibes" zu bilden.
SECHSTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht eine Vorstellung des "Ich-Leibes" oder "Gedanken-Leibes" zu bilden.
SIEBENTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht Vorstellungen zu bilden über die Art des Erlebens in übersinnlichen Welten.
ACHTE MEDITATION - Der Meditierende versucht Vorstellungen zu bilden von dem Schauen der wiederholten Erdenleben des Menschen.

Einleitende Bemerkungen
"In dieser Schrift ist angestrebt, geisteswissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse über die Wesenheit des Menschen zu geben. Die Darstellung ist so gehalten, daß der Leser in das Dargestellte hineinwachsen mag, so daß es ihm im Verlaufe des Lesens wie zu einer Art Selbstgespräch wird. Gestaltet sich dieses Selbstgespräch so, daß dabei vorher verborgene Kräfte sich offenbaren, welche in jeder Seele erweckt werden können, so führt dann das Lesen zu einer wirklichen inneren Seelenarbeit. Und diese kann sich allmählich zur Seelenwanderschaft gedrängt sehen, welche wahrhaftig in das Schauen der geistigen Welt hineinversetzt."
(Rudolf Steiner)

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First published January 1, 1912

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Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality. His philosophical work of these years, which he termed "spiritual science", sought to apply what he saw as the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions,  differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
Steiner advocated a form of ethical individualism, to which he later brought a more explicitly spiritual approach. He based his epistemology on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's world view in which "thinking…is no more and no less an organ of perception than the eye or ear. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds, so thinking perceives ideas." A consistent thread that runs through his work is the goal of demonstrating that there are no limits to human knowledge.

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This primer for esoteric knowledge is concise and thought provoking, well worth the short time needed to consume it for the student of any mystery school.
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