Inner Development: Seven Lectures

by Valentin Tomberg

7 lectures, Rotterdam, August 15–22, 1938 The focus of this book is the spiritual work in the "school" (or community) of Michael. What does this mean? At the end of the eighteenth century, the Archangel Michael revealed the new mystery that has manifested on Earth as spiritual science―Anthroposophy. Its essence involves the renewal of our knowledge of the mysteries of karma and human destiny. Those who are drawn to this school have a special relationship to the human faculty of thinking―their inner feeling for truth has the strength of iron. This feeling for truth helps them to become companions of Michael at the threshold of the spiritual world. These talks deal with the spiritual path of Anthroposophy in its Christian-Rosicrucian aspect. Tomberg speaks openly and honestly about meditation, the various stages of consciousness ( imagination , inspiration , and intuition ), the "guardian of the threshold," and the esoteric trials one encounters along the way. He concludes by describing the life of Rudolf Steiner as the life of a Christian initiate. This book was originally published in German as Sieben Vorträge über die innere Entwicklung des Menschen .

Genres: Christianity, Spirituality

120 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1992

About the author

Valentin Arnoldevitch Tomberg was an Estonian-Russian Christian mystic, scholar, and hermetic magician.

Reviews

[Roger Buck]

I am neither rating this nor saying much as the complex issues here cannot be reduced to a soundbites. Suffice it to say the author specifically requested that his early works, of which this book is one, not be republished. This no doubt had much to do with the author's astonishing conversion to Catholicism around 1944. There is however much much more about this at my website which contains an archive of materials related to Tomberg with materials hard to find in the English language. Link here:

http:/corjesusacratissimum.org/tag/valentin...

Also I pray this post about Rudolf Steiner and Valentin Tomberg may be particularly useful in terms of the above issues:

http://corjesusacratissimum.org/2011/...

[Murray · Rating 4 out of 5]

More valuable insights from an author whose thinking remains highly original and stimulating.