‘_A wonderfully beautiful legend tells us that when Lucifer fell
from heaven to earth a precious stone fell from his crown… This
precious stone is in a certain respect nothing else than the full
power of the “I”_.’
Seven years after staging Edward Schuré’s drama The Children of
Lucifer, Rudolf Steiner felt able to talk openly about the complex
relationship between the beings of Lucifer and Christ. In an
extraordinary series of lectures, Steiner addresses the difficult and
often misunderstood subject of Lucifer’s role in human development.
Speaking within the broader context of ancient and modern – Eastern
and Western – spiritual teachings, Steiner clarifies that Lucifer is
not the simple caricature of evil that many imagine, but rather plays
a pivotal role in human development.
Whilst Rudolf Steiner held a deep respect for Eastern philosophy, he
worked consistently from his personal knowledge of the Western –
Christian – esoteric tradition. At a time when many of his
colleagues revered ancient Eastern texts, Steiner viewed these same
documents as representations of an earlier stage of human
consciousness; as evidence of the heights that Eastern wisdom had
reached, thousands of years before the development of Western science
and culture. But Steiner maintains that the ancient truths need to be
understood in the context of contemporary knowledge: that the old
wisdom of the East has to be seen in the light of the West.
Chapters include: Eternity and Time – Comparison of the Wisdom of
East and West – The Nature of the Physical and the Astral Worlds –
Evolutionary Stages – The Children of Lucifer and the Brothers of
Christ – Lucifer and Christ – The Nature of the Luciferic
Influence in History – The Bodhisattvas and the Christ.
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ISBN
9781855844995
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Rudolf Steiner Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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