The Imagination of Pentecost: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Spirituality

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SteinerBooks, 1994 - 464 páginas
Carlo Pietzner speaks, out of his own ego-directed, inner experiences, about several motifs inherent to inner striving: the problem of self in relationship to the world, the disintegration of the three soul forces, the transition from sense perception to spiritual perception, the reality of evil, the condition of loneliness, and more.

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Cognitive Expansion Indications of Living on the Threshold of the Supersensible Worlds
11
The Consciousness Soul Evolutionary Spiritual Agenda for our Time
45
Cosmic Intelligence Michaelic Preparations for the Respiritualization of Cosmic Intelligence
71
WISDOM ANTHROPOSOPHY EMERGING The Science of the Wisdom of the Human Arises out of NineteenthCentury Spiritualism and Theosophy
95
Theosophys Roots The Impetus for Theosophy in NineteenthCentury Spiritualism and Mediumship
97
The Importance of Freiheit The Anthroposophical Refinement of Theosophy
129
The Redemption of Sophia The Anthroposophical Rigor of True Clairvoyance
174
HUMAN THE HOLY GHOST CAUGHT IN TIME The Ambivalence of Lucifer and Ahriman across the Threshold
205
The Great Human Ideal on Earth Encountering the Guardian of the Threshold
251
The Virgin Sophia The Restoration of Imaginative Force through Inner Schooling
287
The Resurrection of the Holy Ghost Christ in Relation to the Cleaved Lucifer
319
SPEAKING THE GOOD AURIC STAR OF THE HUMAN
349
Sophias Syzygy The Trinity of Michael Sophia and Lucifer
351
Giving Speech to Sophia The Imagination of Pentecost in the House of Speech
397
NOTES
423
BIBLIOGRAPHY
451

Zurvans Progeny The Cosmic Battle of Lucifer and Ahriman in Humanity
207

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Página 225 - We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts : knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
Página 209 - How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! . . .For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 416 - Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
Página 105 - called me, by name and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni. That God had a work for me to do...
Página 225 - I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Página 118 - Spirits" of the dead or Elementals ; and that there are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on earth. When I am dead and gone people will, perhaps, appreciate my disinterested motives. I have pledged my word to help people on to Truth while living and— will keep my word.
Página 127 - I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
Página 114 - I was sent from Paris to America on purpose to prove the phenomena and their reality, and show the fallacy of the, spiritualistic theory of spirits.
Página 212 - And when these twain Spirits came together in the beginning, they established Life and Not-Life, and that at the last the Worst Existence shall be to the followers of the Lie, but the Best Thought to him that...
Página 114 - All things that ever were, that are, or that will be, having their record upon the astral light or tablet of the unseen universe, the initiated adept, by using the vision of his own spirit, can know all that has been known or can be known.

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Richard Leviton has written eight other books, including The Galaxy on Earth: A Traveler's Guide to the Planets, Visionary Geography(2002). A professional journalist for 25 years, he has edited a national magazine on alternative medicine. More recently--in his professional capacity as senior editor for Hampton Roads Publishing Company in Virginia--he has developed a line of alternative medicine self-care titles as well as authoritative metaphysical books.

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