Rudolf Steiner differentiated clearly between the spiritual concept of
Imagination and our everyday understanding of the word. As living,
pictorial thinking, Imagination is a primary aspect of the
contemporary path of inner schooling – the first of three levels of
initiate knowledge and cognition. Imagination leads us into a world of
flowing, living pictures: a realm of soul and spirit in which
everything is in continual movement.
This anthology offers a survey of the diverse aspects of Imagination
and imaginative cognition. As the thematically re-ordered texts
reveal, Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual philosophy – anthroposophy –
is itself often pictorial and imaginative in nature. Many of its
fundamental concepts, such as the evolution of the world and the human
being, were formulated by Steiner in vivid, living pictures. However,
whilst imaginative perception leads us to the threshold of the
spiritual world, we can also fall prey there to illusions, visions and
hallucinations.
This volume, expertly assembled by Edward de Boer, draws on the
entirety of Rudolf Steiner’s collected works – from his earliest
writings to passages from his many lectures. It is conceived as a
stimulus to readers to practise, deepen and extend their own
imaginative consciousness. Steiner’s commentary on ‘exemplary
Imaginations’, in particular, encourages further study,
contemplation and schooling of our own pictorial thinking.
Chapters include ‘Imagination as Supersensible Cognition’; ‘The
Rosicrucian Path of Schooling’; ‘Exercises to Develop
Imagination’; ‘Understanding Imagination Through Inspiration and
Intuition’; ‘Illusions, Hallucinations and Visions’;
‘Imaginative Perception as the Threshold to the Etheric World’;
‘Goethe’s Worldview’ and ‘Exemplary Imaginations’ (including
commentary on ‘The Fairy-tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful
Lily’, The Mystery Plays; The Great Initiates; the ‘Apocalyptic
Seals’; The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz and the
‘Michael Imagination’).
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ISBN
9781855845022
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Rudolf Steiner Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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