Human Being's Experiences Beyond The Gates of Death E-Book

Rudolf Steiner

• Herausgeber: Rudolf Steiner Press
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

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A single lecture taken from the volume Life Beyond Death.

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RUDOLF STEINER (1861–1925) called his spiritual philosophy ‘anthroposophy’, meaning ‘wisdom of the human being’. As a highly developed seer, he based his work on direct knowledge and perception of spiritual dimensions. He initiated a modern and universal ‘science of spirit’, accessible to anyone 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 thousands of schools, clinics, farms and other organizations involved in practical work based on his principles. His many published works 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 6000 lectures across Europe. In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world.

THE HUMAN BEING'S EXPERIENCES BEYOND THE GATES OF DEATH

RUDOLF STEINER

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Published by Rudolf Steiner Press 2015

First published in English in Life Beyond Death by Rudolf Steiner Press 1995

Originally published in German by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Basel. This authorized translation is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach

© Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung This translation © Rudolf Steiner Press Ltd., 1995

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ISBN 978 1 85584 464 3

Cover by Andrew Morgan

Contents

The Human Being’s Experiences beyond the Gates of Death

The Human Being's Experiences Beyond the Gates of Death

Düsseldorf, 17 June 1915

IT HAS often been observed that our spiritual-scientific Movement does not only aim to adopt in a theoretical way the concepts and ideas which spiritual science can provide; it is concerned, rather, that the results of spiritual research should enter deeply into the inmost gestures and impulses of our feeling life. We must, of course, take our starting point from the study of these results—this is the only way to make them our own. But we should not regard spiritual science in the same way as other sciences, in which it is possible merely to remain knowledgeable about this or that fact. Rather, it should work upon our soul so that various regions of our feeling-life are altered by its influence. The concepts, ideas and images which we encounter in spiritual science should rouse and stir our inmost soul, should unite with our feelings so that we learn not only to see the world in a different way, but also to feel differently. The spiritual scientist should actually find his way through certain life-situations quite differently than would otherwise be possible. Only when he can do this has he really achieved what spiritual science can offer us.

We live in difficult times: death, that most important concern of spiritual science, appears before our eyes, souls and hearts in innumerable instances; to some it comes close, to others very close indeed. The spiritual scientist should be able to keep spiritual science alive in his heart even during these difficult times. He should have a different relationship to the events of these times than is possible for someone else, even when they touch him very closely. One person may, of course, need consoling, another may need encouragement; but both of them can find these in spiritual science. Only when this can be so have we rightly understood the true intention of spiritual science.