Format:
1 online resource (167 pages)
ISBN:
9781912230679
Content:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: The Herald of a New Age -- Anthroposophy and Spiritual Knowledge -- Practical Applications -- To the Reader Personally -- Chapter 1: The Being of Man -- Man's Twofold Nature -- The Fourfold Being of Man -- The Threefold Being of Man -- Man and the Four Kingdoms of Nature -- Man and the Four Elements-Temperament -- The Historical Development of Fourfold Man -- Man and the Progress of Civilization -- Individual Development -- Waking, Sleeping, Birth and Death -- The Physical Body as a Mirror of Soul Activity -- Man and the Universe -- Chapter 2: The Shaping of Destiny -- Reincarnation -- The Meaning of Karma -- Examples of the Working of Karma -- Disease, Prevention, Cure -- Pain and Sorrow -- Heredity -- The Draught of Forgetfulness -- Reincarnation and Christianity -- Freedom and Necessity -- Chapter 3: The Development of Human Consciousness -- A Survey of Past Civilizations -- The Ancient Cultures of India, Persia and Egypt -- The Birth of Thinking in Greece -- The Materialism of Rome -- The Dawn of a New Age -- Chapter 4: Evolution from the Point of View of Spiritual Science -- The Solar System -- The Earth Stage of Planetary Development -- Chapter 5: Relationships between the Living and the Dead -- The Other World -- Keeping Contact -- How the Living can Help the Dead -- Special Cases-Materialists and Suicides -- How the Dead Influence the Living -- The Path of Knowledge to Spiritual Awareness -- Chapter 6: The Forces of Evil -- The Mission of Evil -- The Good: A Balance between Two Extremes -- The Spirits of Adversity -- Between Scylla and Charybdis -- The Coming of Antichrist -- Chapter 7: The Modern Path of Initiation -- Initiation -- Moral Development -- Control of the Forces of Thinking, Feeling and Willing -- Opening the Gates -- Practical Hints.
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Additional Edition:
9781902636283
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9781902636283
Language:
English
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