9780880102018

Macrocosm and Microcosm

Format: Hardcover

ISBN13: 9780880102018

Hardcover|9780880102018


Overview

The human life alternates between the great, external macrocosm and the invisible inner microcosm. Steiner discusses the various paths of self-development that lead across these two thresholds and to the transformation of human soul-forces into spiritual organs of perception.

A brief synopsis:

  • The world behind the tapestry of sensory perceptions; human life between macrocosm and microcosm.
  • The planets and their connection with our sleeping and waking life; consciousness soul, mind soul, and sentient soul.
  • The inner path of the mystic; the cycle of the year; the ability to see through matter; the "greater guardian of the threshold."
  • The nature and development of human soul faculties; the "lesser guardian of the threshold"; the sun at midnight; the results of "sins of omission."
  • The Egyptian mysteries of Osiris and Isis; initiation experiences; the Rosicrucian path; mystics of the Middle Ages.
  • Initiation in the "northern mysteries"; the necessity of suppressing the ego; conscious assent into the macrocosm and the higher worlds; the world of archetypal images.
  • The four spheres of the higher worlds; the threshold of the spirit world; forces for developing clairvoyant consciousness in the world of archetypal images.
  • The macrocosm mirrored in the human being; the nervous system as an inner solar system; the image of purified blood and the conquest of our lower nature in the symbol of the Rose Cross.
  • Spiritual organs of perception and the strengthening powers of sleep; the thinking of the heart; the ego viewed from twelve perspectives.
  • Reading the akashic record; the transition from intellect to heart thinking; four-dimensional space; intellectual questions have no meaning in relation to conditions before the intellect itself existed.
  • Human and planetary evolution; adaptation to the different states of Earth's existence; the breathing process should not be influenced directly unless knowledge has become prayer.

ISBN-13

9780880102018

ISBN-10

0880102012

Weight

0.80 Pounds

Dimensions

6.00 x 0.75 x 9.00 In

List Price

$20.00

Format

Hardcover

Pages

205 pages

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Pr

Published On

1986-09-01



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