THIS 72 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Great Initiates Part 1, by Edouard Schure. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766131467.

This book is an esoteric look at the life of Jesus, and considered to be the ultimate of a long line of Initiates. Edouard Schure was a French author who influenced Rudolph Steiner, who also viewed Christ as both an historical individual, and as a manifestation of the divine in the human realm.

The three types of womanhood set forth, Mathilde Wesendonck, Cosima Liszt and Margherita Albana Mignaty, belong to a category that may be classified under the heading Woman: The Inspirer. These three women could not be more different, with their strong natures and extremely individualized temperaments. They were united by one common trait, that being they all inspired basic thoughts on love.

The Great Initiates encompasses long centuries of human existence and reflects our great search -- the greatest search of all -- the quest for the spirit. This book describes the motivations behind external history, the growth of religious striving, the rise and fall of cultures, and indicates their importance for us today It reflects the lives and deeds of human beings of extraordinary stature. Rama, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, Jesus. In these pages one witnesses spiritual adventure of a depth and intensity rarely experienced by creative human beings, even in their most exalted moments. This excitement of discovery which breathes through The Great Initiates may well explain its continuing popularity after over a century.

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The reader witnesses spiritual adventure of a depth and intensity rarely equaled by creative human beings. Schure is master in depicting for moderns seekers the engrossing story of man's eternal search for the esoteric knowledge of his origin, evolution and destiny in the light of eternal spirit.