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Guardian Angels: Connecting with Our Spiritual Guides and Helpers
Throughout the ages, traditional folklore has spoken of guardian angels as spirits who guide and protect human beings. In modern times, however, their existence has largely been written off as myth and superstition.
Based on his personal experience and cognition, Rudolf Steiner speaks of guardian angels and other spiritual beings as a reality. Their existence, he says, is a spiritual and scientific fact which can be fruitfully researched and studied through clairvoyant means. Furthermore, working consciously with these entities can assist each of us in fulfilling our evolutionary goals.
In these six specially selected lectures, Rudolf Steiner elucidates the role of the guardian angel, and also discusses our relationship to the heavenly hierarchies of spiritual beings as a whole, and how they shape our human form as a result of their cosmic activity.
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143 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 2000
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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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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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November 9, 2021
The title here is perhaps misleading, since there is not much in these six lectures dealing specifically with guardian angels and how to connect with them. The lectures, from diverse occasions between 1908 and 1923, deal with different aspects of the hierarchy of beings we call angels, along with sundry other things to do with human spiritual development.
So the material I was hoping to find in this book was scattered throughout it in a handful of sentences. Nonetheless, Steiner is always interesting, and I found myself intrigued and challenged by the things he is presenting. The important thing is to recognize that we share the cosmos with many beings existing at a higher level of spiritual development than ourselves, and we would be wise to keep this fact central in our thinking as we live our lives.
So the material I was hoping to find in this book was scattered throughout it in a handful of sentences. Nonetheless, Steiner is always interesting, and I found myself intrigued and challenged by the things he is presenting. The important thing is to recognize that we share the cosmos with many beings existing at a higher level of spiritual development than ourselves, and we would be wise to keep this fact central in our thinking as we live our lives.
April 1, 2015
Can't believe it took me so long to get to this book. It lead me to write about the role of angels in our lives through Lent. You can read these thoughts on my Facebook page The Esoteric Connection
September 3, 2021
In places revealing some knowledge and contact, still a painful example of extrapolating too much about the spiritual from a merely intellectual level.
May 12, 2022
Conversational. Informative.
The first lecture is most down to earth.
It's fairly interesting. Best complemented with other Steiner readings.
The first lecture is most down to earth.
It's fairly interesting. Best complemented with other Steiner readings.
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