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Initiation and Its Results: A Sequel to The Way of Initiation
Initiation and Its A Sequel to The Way of Initiation is a book written by Rudolf Steiner. It is a continuation of his previous work, The Way of Initiation, and delves deeper into the concept of initiation and its effects on the human soul. The book is divided into two the first part explores the different stages of initiation, including the physical, emotional, and spiritual transformations that occur during the process. The second part focuses on the results of initiation, including the ability to communicate with spiritual beings, the development of clairvoyant powers, and the attainment of higher states of consciousness. Throughout the book, Steiner emphasizes the importance of self-awareness, self-discipline, and spiritual practice in achieving these results. Initiation and Its Results is a profound and insightful work that offers a unique perspective on the spiritual journey and the transformative power of initiation.1909. The Astral Centers (Chakras); The Constitution of the Etheric Body; Dream-Life; The Three States of Consciousness; The Disassociation of the Human Personality During Initiation; The First Guardian of the Threshold; The Second Guardian of the Threshold�������Life and Death.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
196 pages, Paperback
Published September 10, 2010
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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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February 1, 2019
Disappointing Sequel
Steiner describes much about his experiences in the higher worlds but gives little practical instruction. The initial work, of which this is the sequel, is better, and it's free. Not everyone treads the same identical path. And,Steiner had not yet gone past the final guardian else he wouldn't have reincarnated and written. How would he know what really happens?
Steiner describes much about his experiences in the higher worlds but gives little practical instruction. The initial work, of which this is the sequel, is better, and it's free. Not everyone treads the same identical path. And,Steiner had not yet gone past the final guardian else he wouldn't have reincarnated and written. How would he know what really happens?
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