Occult History Historical Personalities and Events in the Light of Spiritual Science 6 lectures, Stuttgart, Dec. 27, 1910 - Jan. 1, 1911 (GA 126) Rudolf Steiner ISBN: 085440371x Book (Paperback) Rudolf Steiner Press $9.95 128 pages September 1982

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Out of Print These lectures are concerned with spiritual forces and influences working in world history and in the karma of human beings. Steiner's penetrating insights into the events and personalities history are one of his major contributions to modern times. Steiner's focus here is on the Babylonian and Greek cultures and the threads that run between individual personalities—Plato, Copernicus, Raphael, and Galileo—and the evolution of humanity as a whole. He shows the inadequacy of viewing history in only a chronolical, temporal sense, and the fital need to recognize the deeper meaning of the historical events revealed in myths and the spiritual impulses behind them. Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in Kraljevic, Austria, where he grew up the son of a railroad station chief. As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and its results. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine and therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs (including the Camphill Village movement), threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.       See all titles by this author

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