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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> RUDOLF STEINER’S lifework was dedicated to the proposition that the critical conditions of our time require a fundamental metanoia or trans-formation of consciousness. For this reason at the heart of his cultural spiritual and esoteric endeavor we always find the question of method-the development of a new way of meditative knowing and being. Coming of age in the last third of the nineteenth century-and faced with the overwhelming evidence that materialism was not only a house built dangerously on sand but also potentially destructive of the entire divine-cosmic human experiment we call “Earth”-Steiner’s primary concern from the beginning was to respond to the historical-spiritual call for a new epistemological path that affirming the spiritual founda-tions of phenomenal reality united the spiritual in humanity with the spiritual in the cosmos. His overriding concern with method however was not always under-stood. Immensely gifted and prolific as a spiritual researcher and pro-ducing a staggering near encyclopedic richness of contents in his work. Steiner found himself inevitably engaged in a perpetual struggle against people’s natural and enthusiastic tendency to emphasize information over method. Yet for him method was always primary. It was method that gave contents their value and meaning. Contents were nothing unless real-ized that is embodied enacted and made real by those who had heard him and read his works. More than that viewed from a certain perspective one might say that in the end he was not concerned with contents in any sense because what his lectures and books finally con-tained are not in fact contents at all but reports ports of spiritual research in the form of injunctions or themes for meditation meditate this and you will discover-experience for yourself how this is the case. (LL)