Spiritual Knowledge cannot hand people something which, once assimilated, is enough for the rest of life. I have often pointed out that there exists no short summary of a world view which can be kept at hand in one’s pocket. In place of ready formulas, science of the spirit provides something with which the human soul must repeatedly unite itself, which must be repeatedly inwardly assimilated and digested. External truths such as those provided by natural science we can, if we have a good memory, take in and then possess them once and for all. That is not possible with spiritual-scientific truths, the reason being that the truths of natural science are lifeless concepts. The laws of nature are dead once they have been formulated into concepts, whereas spiritual-scientific truths are living concepts; if we condemn them to lifelessness because we accept them as if they were external truths, then they provide no nourishment; then they are stones the soul cannot digest. Rudolf Steiner ‘Aspects of Human Evolution’, lecture VIII, Berlin 24 July 1917
Read a Scientist’s review of Occult Science – by Bobby Matherne 2003
- The Human Being
- Reincarnation and Karma
- The Esoteric Bible
- The Earth
- The Cosmos
- Jesus and Christ
- The Forces of Opposition
- Third Millennium Society
- The New Economy
- Esoteric Psychology
- Death, disease and disability
- The Soul
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth an inhabited garden. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Did you know? We have it on good authority that Marilyn Munro was a very active member of the Rudolf Steiner Library in New York.