Introduction : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 1 THEOSOPHY INTRODUCTION When Johann Gottlieb Fichte, in the autumn of 1813, gave to the world his "Introduction to the Science of Knowledge" as the ripe fruit of a life wholly devoted to the service of truth, he said, at the very beginning: "This...
Chapter I. The Constitution Of The Hum. Part 05 : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 9 CHAPTER I THE CONSTITUTION OF THE HUMAN BEING The following words of Goethe's describe, in a beautiful manner, the starting point of one of the ways by which the constitution of man can be known: "When a person first becomes aware of the objects...
Translator's Foreword : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. viii p. ix TRANSLATOR'S FOREWORD It is significant of the movement of thought in our time that, although the previous works of Rudolf Steiner, Ph.D. Vienna, such as his penetrating and suggestive "Erkenntniss Theorie" (Theory of Knowledge), his works...
Untitled : * Small Caps extensively for emphasis, which I have been able to reproduce herein, but the effect requires an up-to-date browser to view correctly.--J.B. Hare, July 9th, 2008. Title Page Contents Translator's Foreword Preface to the First Edition Preface to the Third Edition Introduction CHAPTER I...
Chapter I. The Constitution Of The Hum. Part 04 : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 1. THE CORPOREAL BEING OF MAN One learns to know the body of man through the bodily senses. And the way of observing it can differ in no way from that by which one learns to know other objects perceived by the senses. As one observes minerals, p. 16 plants...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 2. The Soul : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 2. THE SOUL IN THE SOUL WORLD AFTER DEATH The soul is the connecting link between the spirit of man and his body. Its forces of sympathy and antipathy which, owing to their mutual relationship, bring about soul manifestations, such as desire, excitability...
Preface To The Third Edition : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. xv PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION On the appearance of the second edition of this book occasion was taken to preface a few remarks which may also be said with regard to this third edition. "Amplifications and extensions," which seem to me important...
Chapter Ii. Re Embodiment Of The Spirit : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 59 CHAPTER II RE-EMBODIMENT OF THE SPIRIT AND DESTINY REINCARNATION AND KARMA In the midst between body and spirit lives the soul. The impressions which come to it through the body are transitory. They are present only as long as the body opens its...
Chapter I. The Constitution Of The Hum. Part 02 : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 3. THE SPIRITUAL BEING OF MAN The soul being of man is not determined by the body alone. Man does not wander aimlessly and without a goal from one sensation to another; neither does he act under the influence of every casual incitement directed on him...
Chapter Iv. The Path Of Knowledge : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 195 CHAPTER IV THE PATH OF KNOWLEDGE Knowledge of the truths made known by Theosophy can be gained by each man for himself. Descriptions of the kind given in this book present a thought-picture of the higher worlds. And they are in a particular respect...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 3. The Spirit Land : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 129 3. THE SPIRIT LAND Before the spirit can be observed on its further pilgrimage the land which it enters must first be examined. It is the "World of the Spirit." (In theosophical literature this is called the "mental" world. Here, the expressi...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 6. Thought : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 6. THOUGHT-FORMS AND THE HUMAN AURA It has become evident that the formations of any one of the three worlds can have reality for a man only when he has the capacities or the organs for perceiving them. A man perceives certain occurrences in space as light...
Chapter I. The Constitution Of The Hum : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 4. BODY, SOUL, AND SPIRIT Man can enlighten himself in a correct way concerning himself only when he grasps the significance of thinking within his being. The brain is the bodily instrument for thinking. Just as man can only see colors with a properly...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 5. The Physical : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 5. THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND ITS CONNECTION WITH THE SOUL AND SPIRIT LANDS The formations of the Soul World and the "Spirit-land" cannot be the objects of external sense perception. The objects of this perception p. 162 are to be added to the two already...
Title Page : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], THEOSOPHY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SUPERSENSIBLE KNOWLEDGE OF THE WORLD AND THE DESTINATION OF MAN BY RUDOLF STEINER TRANSLATED WITH THE PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR FROM THE THIRD GERMAN EDITION BY E. D. S. [Elizabeth Douglas Shields] RAND McNALLY & COMPANY...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 4. The Spirit : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 4. THE SPIRIT IN SPIRIT-LAND AFTER DEATH When the human spirit on its way between two incarnations has passed through this "world of souls" (Kamaloca), it enters the "Land of Spirits" to remain there until it is ripe for a new bodily existence...
Chapter Iii. The Three Worlds. 1. The Soul World : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 87 CHAPTER III THE THREE WORLDS 1. THE SOUL WORLD Our study of man has shown that he belongs to three worlds. From the world of physical corporality are taken the materials and forces building up his body. He has knowledge of this world through...
Notes And Amplifications : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. 225 NOTES AND AMPLIFICATIONS 1. To page 23. To speak of "life-force" ("Lebenskraft") was regarded a short time back as the mark of an unscientific mind. But one begins to find here and there in science to-day a tendency which is not averse from the ide...
Chapter I. The Constitution Of The Hum. Part 03 : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], 2. THE SOUL BEING OF MAN The soul being of man differs from his corporality through being his own inner world. This inner world peculiar to each person faces one the moment one directs one's attention to the simplest sensation. One finds, in the first...
Preface To The First Edition : * "Theosophy", by Rudolf Steiner, [1910], p. xi PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION This book will give a description of some of the regions of the supersensible world. The reader who is willing to admit the existence of the sensible world only will regard this delineation as a mere unreal producti...