Rudolf Steiner's Esoteric Lessons

STEINER'S ESOTERIC LESSONS:
http://esotericlessons.webs.com/


This is an Oriphiel Production
written and narrated by Mathew Morrell

Recently uncovered documents, newly translated, have changed the way we think of Rudolf Steiners tours through Germany from 1904 to 1909. Documents show Steiner did more during this time, as General Secretary of the Theosophical Society, than provide lectures to the public and to Theosophists.

GA 266 of Steiner's collected work shows he also devoted considerable time to his Esoteric School, a small, relatively unknown group of men and woman, until recently shadowed by time.

GA 266 emerged from obscurity and gave researchers a new view of the fullness of Steiner's mission, a mission extending beyond his work in education, biodynamic agriculture, or anthroposophical medicine, beyond even his lectures to the Theosophical Society.

After giving a lecture to Society members, Steiner would then shift his attention to his esoteric students. His public lectures would draw hundreds or more, while these post-lecture meetings with his esoteric students often consisted in ten people or less. Some records suggest that as little as three people might have attend some classes.

(Members of the Esoteric School would congregate at their Theosophical lodges in Berlin, Charlottenburg, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Kassel There were 251 German members in 1904, when Steiner served as General Secretary. By 1914 there were forty-four lodges and a membership of 1500—still a very small number.)

There were seven basic rules for the Esoteric School.

Every morning sit for a half-hour period of meditation.

In the evening before retiring the member should first meditate upon a sentence given by Rudolf Steiner and then conduct a backward review of the day.

Devote at least half an hour daily to study of a suggested book.

Every two weeks, report what exercises have been practiced.

Keep a daily record in a notebook of exercises practiced.

Abstain from alcohol.

Abstain of animal food (depending on one's particular life style, temperment or metabolism).

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References:

Introduction to "Esoteric Lessons 1904 1909," published by Steiner Books. Pps xx - xxxiv. Copyright 2007. Introduction by Christopher Bamford.

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[freedomphilosophy]

In the first decade of the 20th century, August Ewerbeck got word that there were intimate circles in which Rudolf Steiner gave special esoteric training to those admitted to them. So he asked his teacher whether he too might be allowed to attend, and received the astonishing reply: You dont need to! You have understood my Philosophy of Freedom!

The study of Steiner's Philosophy of Freedom, his own path, is a thought-training and knowledge that replaces the need for other esoteric exercises.

[mmorrell1]

You statement is based on a short obituary written by Karl Koller, and not upon the words of Rudolf Steiner himself.  Steiner would never express such an absurd notion.

[etonforest]

Rudolf Steiner's advice was basically this: Do not take what I say as dogma. Take what I share with you with an open mind and unprejudiced desire to search for truth, and apply it to life, and life itself will tell you if it's right or wrong.