Finding the Greater Self E-Book

Rudolf Steiner

• Herausgeber: Rudolf Steiner Press
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

As a spiritual teacher Rudolf Steiner wrote many beautifully formed and inspired verses. Often they were given in relation to specific situations or in response to individual requests; sometimes they were created for general use in assisting the process of meditation. Regardless of their origins, they are uniformly powerful in their ability to connect the meditant with spiritual archetypes and realities, and are valuable tools for developing experience and knowledge of other dimensions.Matthew Barton has delicately translated these meditations into English, many for the first time, and arranged them thematically in this outstanding new series.In this collection of meditations to promote harmony and healing, Rudolf Steiner helps us discover a renewed sense of our true place in the cosmos. The verses show how we can learn to know ourselves by looking outwards to the substances and processes at work in the cosmos; and know the world by looking inwards to the microcosmic depths of the human self. By integrating spirit and matter within, we can also heal divisions in our relationships with others.For modern people, increasingly divorced from a living relationship with nature, these verses help to unfold a world of interconnections.

Leseprobe

A Note on the Author

RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) called his spiritual philosophy ‘anthroposophy’, which can be understood as ‘wisdom of the human being’. A highly developed seer, Steiner based his work on direct knowledge and perception of spiritual dimensions. He initiated a modern and universal ‘science of spirit’, accessible to anybody willing to exercise clear and unprejudiced thinking.

From his spiritual investigations, Steiner provided suggestions for the renewal of many activities, including education—both general and special—agriculture, medicine, economics, architecture, science, philosophy, religion and the arts. Today there are literally thousands of schools, clinics, farms and other organizations doing practical work based on his principles. His many published works (writings and lectures) also feature his research into the spiritual nature of the human being, the evolution of the world and humanity, and methods of personal development. Steiner wrote some 30 books and delivered over 6,000 lectures across Europe. In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world.

Also in the Meditations series:

Breathing the Spirit, Meditations for Times of Day and Seasons of the Year

The Heart of Peace, Meditations for Courage and Tranquillity

Living with the Dead, Meditations for Maintaining a Connection with Those Who Have Died

FINDING THE GREATER SELF

Meditations for Harmony and Healing

Rudolf Steiner

Edited and translated by Matthew Barton

Sophia Books

Sophia Books An imprint of Rudolf Steiner Press Hillside House, The Square Forest Row, East Sussex RH18 5ES

www.rudolfsteinerpress.com

Published by Rudolf Steiner Press 2012

Rudolf Steiner’s verses are selected from the following volumes of the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe (‘GA’), his Collected Works published in the original German by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach: GA 40 Wahrspruchworte, GA 267 Seelenübungen and GA 268 Mantrische Sprüche. This authorized volume is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach

This selection and translation © Rudolf Steiner Press 2002

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 85584 349 3

Typeset by DP Photosetting, Aylesbury, Bucks.

Contents

Introduction

FINDING THE GREATER SELF

Notes

Man, you are the condensed, compressed image of the world.

World you are the being of man poured out into far expanse.

Introduction

One of Rudolf Steiner’s great and enduring gifts to us was to show, in great and specific detail, how we are intimately linked with the wider world around us: how, in fact, we can only really know and understand ourselves by looking out into the substances and processes at work in the cosmos; and only know the world by looking into the microcosmic depths of the human self. He returned to this theme again and again, unfolding worlds of interconnection that can give us modern human beings, increasingly sundered from a living relationship with nature, a renewed sense of our true place in the greater scheme of things.

The verses gathered here all relate to this theme in some way, and repeatedly focus on the relationship between spirit and matter, on ways in which we can integrate these two aspects in ourselves, and heal the divisions within and between us.

Just by being here, alive on earth, we continually encounter riddles and problems which, as Steiner says, we can only solve by living. These meditations aim to help us bring the riddles into sharper focus and offer the beginnings of answers only we ourselves can ultimately provide.

Matthew Barton