Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy.
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Background
- Born in
- Donji Kraljevec
- Educated at
- TU WienUniversity of Rostock
- Awards
- 🏆 Subba Row Medal
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Trending topics shown first"Everything which the ego is able to unfold within itself must give birth to love. The all-embracing archetype of love is set forth in the revelation of... the Christ Mystery. Through Him the germ of l…"
"The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will."
"The secret of all future development is a recognition that everything achieved by man from a right comprehension of evolution is a sowing of seed which must ripen into love. And the greater the amount…"
"In this world-historic moment it is as though we could behold the deeds of those who lived upon earth before the end of Kali-Yuga, in the 1880's and 90's. That which was then enacted among men on eart…"
"We shall not set up demands nor programmes, but simply describe the child-nature. Vague and general phrases — ‘the harmonious development of all the powers and talents in the child,’ and so forth — ca…"
"Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain que…"
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1861
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Birth1925
Died
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