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Following the death of the Austrian philosopher and spiritual
scientist Rudolf Steiner in 1925, Ita Wegman - one of his closest
esoteric pupils - began to publish regular letters to the members
of the Anthroposophical Society. In Steiner's tradition, these
letters were appended with 'leading thoughts' (or guiding
principles). Esoteric Studies collects many of these 'letters to
friends', together with various articles, reports and addresses by
Ita Wegman on subjects such as the Christmas Foundation Conference,
the Goetheanum building and the festival of Michaelmas. Featuring
an informative foreword by Crispian Villeneuve and a commemorative
study by George Adams, this book provides a fine introduction to
the work of Ita Wegman, as well as a rousing call for courage and
wakefulness in the spirit of the Archangel Michael!
Following his major work on Rudolf Steiner's ten visits to Britain,
Crispian Villeneuve studies Steiner's relationship to the British
Isles in the 40 or so years before those visits took place. The
theme of Steiner's early connection to British culture leads
inevitably to the broader topic of his relationship to modern
science. This in turn highlights the polarity and tension between
the Goethean philosophic view that arises from Middle Europe, and
the 'Baconian' perspective emanating from Western Europe.
Interweaving these contrasting Baconian and Goethean world-views,
Villeneuve presents numerous primary texts - often culled from
obscure sources, and many previously unavailable in English
translation - with commentary relating to Rudolf Steiner and the
nineteenth century. We learn about Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius
Schroer and Edmund Reitlinger, as well as English polymath William
Whewell. The latter figure was perhaps the greatest admirer of
Francis Bacon in recorded history, but maintained manifold
connections to Middle Europe. Rudolf Steiner: The British
Connection offers genuinely new and valuable research into the
early life and thought of one of the greatest cultural innovators
of our time.
Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, spent some five
months of his life in Britain, visiting it ten times between the
years 1902 and 1924. With the exception of German-speaking
countries, the longest time Steiner spent abroad was in Britain, a
place he clearly considered as central to his work. In this
extraordinarily thorough study of over 1,200 pages and dozens of
illustrations, Crispian Villeneuve documents these important
visits, reproducing letters, articles, records and other archival
material - much of it published for the first time. He also studies
the interconnected theme of the life and work of D.N. Dunlop,
Rudolf Steiner's closest British colleague. Rudolf Steiner in
Britain has special significance for English-speaking peoples
around the world, as well as for those seeking to understand how
and why Steiner disseminated his spiritual world-view. Villeneuve's
two-volume opus, the fruit of a decade of research, is finally
available in a paperback edition.
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