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Anthroposophy
World-wide spiritual
movement, based on the work of Rudolf Steiner,
an Austrian philosopher, scientist, artist and educator, who lived from 1861 to 1925.
A Christianized version of Theosophy, this
doctrine declares that humans have a faculty of spiritual cognition, or
pure thought, which functions independently of the senses.
Anthroposophy strives for the most effective development of this faculty.
In the words of Rudolf Steiner,
"Anthroposophical ideas are vessels
fashioned by love, and man's being is spiritually summoned by the spiritual world to
partake of their content. Anthroposophy must bring the light of true humanness to shine
out in thoughts that bear love's imprint; knowledge is only the form in which man reflects
the possibility of receiving in his heart the light of the world spirit that has come to
dwell there and from that heart illumine human thought. Since anthroposophy cannot really
be grasped except by the power of love, it is love-engendering when human beings take it
in a way true to its own nature. That is why a place where love reigned
could be built in Dornach in the very midst of raging hatreds. Words
expressing anthroposophical truths are not like words spoken elsewhere
today; rightly conceived, they are all really reverential pleas that the
spirit make itself known to men." — from Awakening to Community,
Lecture I, Stuttgart, January 23, 1923.
Steiner founded the
Anthroposophical Society in 1912, and today
it has branches throughout the world, being specially popular in Great
Britain.
See
Theosophy, Rudolf Steiner,
The Tarot Store,
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies, and
Journal For Walford Rudolf Steiner Teachers.
Sources: (1) Awakening to Community,
Lecture I, Stuttgart, January 23, 1923;
(2)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing.
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