THIS 60 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Gates of Knowledge, by Rudolf Steiner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564597652.

1896. Two lectures from the Founder/President of the Theosophical Society on the tracing of the progress of the soul and the origin of the individual. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.

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1888. The Search for Pleasure;The Mystery of Threshold; The Initial Effort; The Meaning of Pain; The Secret of Strength.

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1913. Contents: Flowers; Gardens; Gardeners, The Head; Gardeners, The Heart; Gardeners, Heart's Flower; Dream or Vision; L'Envoi.

1894. Intended to show the value of the teachings of H.P. Blavatsky as a guide to the obscurer meanings of the Hindu Sacred books, and so to vindicate at once the usefulness of the Theosophyical and the Hindu doctrines.

1924. This text presents a course of 12 lessons intended to give the student a perfect knowledge of the Science of Motion. With this knowledge, he will be able to perfectly understand the ultimate, as well as the immediate cause of all manifestation of nature; he will take the first steps toward an understanding of the Theosophia; and will learn that without this knowledge, an understanding of nature in the abstract is impossible. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

1924. This text presents a course of 12 lessons intended to give the student a perfect knowledge of the Science of Motion. With this knowledge, he will be able to perfectly understand the ultimate, as well as the immediate cause of all manifestation of nature; he will take the first steps toward an understanding of the Theosophia; and will learn that without this knowledge, an understanding of nature in the abstract is impossible. See the many other works by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

THIS 24 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Scientific Idealism: or Matter and Force and Their Relation to Life and Consciousness, by William Kingsland. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766102963.

1931. And preliminary memorandum of the esoteric section. A recitation of the fundamental aims of the Theosophical Society, from a handwritten manuscript by the author, existing in Adyar.

THESE volumes, complete in themselves as a series of studies in a definite body of tradition, are intended to serve ultimately as a small contribution to the preparation of the way leading towards a solution of the vast problems involved in the scientific study of the Origins of the Christian Faith. They might thus perhaps be described as the preparation of materials to serve for the historic, mythic, and mystic consideration of the Origins of Christianity, -where the term "mythic" is used in its true sense of inner, typical, sacred and "logic," as opposed to the external processioning of physical events known as "historic," and where the term "mystic" is used as that which pertains to initiation and the mysteries. Though the material that we have collected, has, as to its externals, been tested, as far as our hands are capable of the work, by the methods of scholarship and criticism, it has nevertheless at the same time been allowed ungrudgingly to show itself the outward expression of a truly vital endeavour of immense interest and value to all who are disposed to make friends with it. For along this ray of the Trismegistic tradition we may allow ourselves to be drawn backwards in time towards the holy of holies of the Wisdom of Ancient Egypt. The sympathetic study of this material may well prove an initiatory process towards an understanding of that Archaic Gnosis. And, therefore, though these volumes are intended to show those competent to judge that all has been set forth in decency according to approved methods of modern research, they are also designed for those who are not qualified to give an opinion on such matters, but who are able to feel and think with the writers of these beautiful tractates.

THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Early Teachings of the Masters 1881-1883, by C. Jinarajadasa. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564595943.

THIS 18 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Law of the Rhythmic Breath: Teaching the Generation, Conservation, and Control of Vital Force, by Ella Adelia Fletcher. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 156459839X.

THIS 36 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Super-Physical Science, by A. P. Sinnett. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592634.

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THIS 26 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Christianity as Mystical Fact and the Mysteries of Antiquity, by Rudolf Steiner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766107396.

THIS 126 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, by Rudolf Steiner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766107728.

Anthroposophy has manifold roots in natural science. Rudolf Steiner never tired of saying that the development of scientific awareness had given people the possibility of freedom, that the way to cognizing the spiritual world is based on the natural scientific attitude, and that certainty of such knowledge is comparable to the certainty found in mathematics and natural science. Especially noteworthy is Steiner's comments on the importance of how experiments should be done-first, that scientists should adopt the attitude that their workbench is an altar, and second, that scientists should seek the cooperation of elemental beings. Steiner was concerned that people do new experiments because of the many new views and educational possibilities that can arise. Consequently, in 1920, a special institute was established with departments for physics and biology in Stuttgart, financed by the scanty means of the joint-stock company, Der kommende Tag (literally, "the coming day"). The purpose of the institute were described by Steiner: "What we lack is not the empirical material, but the gathering of possibilities, which are also possibilities of explaining one phenomenon through another phenomenon. Therefore, in our research institute, we will no longer do experiments using the old methods, for there really is an excess of empirical material available." Though the institute eventually closed, owing to financial difficulties, in 1926 on the initiative of Guenther Wachsmuth, Paul Eugen Schiller took most of the materials to Dornach. There, he set up a simple physics laboratory where he worked for several years, working mainly on Steiner's indications about the "sensitive flame." Drawn from Schiller's notebooks, this important volume describes natural scientific research by scientists working at the Goetheanum and following suggestions from Rudolf Steiner, leading, for example, to research on gases at low temperatures and high vacuum. Steiner told them, "You will tend to produce conditions at the Sun's center, where matter is annihilated and exists in a negative state; similarly with space. Spectrum analysis was used in these experiments, but for 'true' results, the spectroscope would need to be modified." On electricity, Steiner told them," We do not know electricity, except by its effects.... In origin, it is an astral force." The Schiller File is an important resource for those who wish to better understand how to approach and practice natural science from the perspective of spiritual science. Includes an extensive index. The Schiller File is a translation of Beitrage zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe Veroffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Rudolf Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

THIS 84 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, by Rudolf Steiner. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766107728.

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This Book Is About The Three Paths Of Karma, Jnana And Bhakti, As Explained In The Bhagavad-Gita. Lectures Delivered At Benares, At The Sixth Annual Convention Of The Indian Section Of The Theosophical Society On October 19th, 20th And 21st, 1896.

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1896. Two lectures from the Founder/President of the Theosophical Society on the tracing of the progress of the soul and the origin of the individual. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.