East in the Light of the West

Rudolf Steiner

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Much will depend on a sufficient number of men and women realising and understanding these problems in the light of the deeper know ledge that is contained, for example, in the course of lectures which has now been revised and made public, with Dr. Steiner's permission, in this Volume.

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• Mind
• Body

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• Publié par: Forgotten Books
• Date de parution: 27 novembre 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780243665983
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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rfac T Whitsun ide this year an international Congress of the Anthroposophical Move ment was held at Vienna under the title Of East and WestSpeopeventeen hundred le were present from all parts ofEurope It was an inspired gathering helwhered in a city Eastern and Western elements have met and minglDred for many centuries Steiner gave two cours es lectures Anthroposophy and Knowledge and Anthroposophy andSociology The problem OfEspiritually conast and West was the main theme The Viennese public felt the message and gave him a great ovation a Sign that his lectures with all their intensity thought had been appreciated and their impulse understood The Congress opened boldly with theClear statement that the problto day are to b eems of solvpoliticaled neither on economic nor platforms but only on the basis new spiritualof a understanding a creation fresh Spiritual value and ideals DrSteiner described the path the soul to higher knowledge in ancientEaster methods for example in the Yoga training and he described the ancient Spirituality

rfa c theEast wasledEurope byCivilisation Of ancient Greece He showed other elements humanity in Northern and WesternEurope andlater in America had come into c ontact with this heritage from the ancientEast and brought fresh faculties and impulitses to bear HeClaimed that Anthroposophy points a deeper knowledge born new faculties of spiritual perception and is the only power great enough t o draw together the conflicting elements inEastern and Western points view Con he showed how these seeds new spi itualfaculties are ready to burst into life inEurope and in the West and how in this alonelies the sols problemsthe world ution Of to day I f West develops these latent Spiritual faculties and permeates her industrial and economic civilisation with fresh Spiritual values theEOpportunity Of aast will recognise her great Spiritual revival and meet the West with understandingOall externaltherwise despite appearances they will go on developing a latent host lity to our external Western civilisation Hence DrSteiner claims that the keynote the most immediate and practical problems Of the hour lies in an understanding the esoteric evolution humanity and the rela man inEin Pastand West ast Middle Present and Future the spiritual orlds The subj ect therefore that is dealt with esoterically in this book from a course lectures given at

rfac private meetings Of students twelve years ago now become the most urgent and practical problem before the world For again and again DrSteiner referred to the significant words of GeneralSsaidmuts who that the eyes the world s statesmen must now be turned from the NorthSea and the Atl ntic to the Pacifipointimmediate meeting c the East and West Much will depend on a su cient number men and women realising and understanding these problems in the light of the deeper know ledge that is contained for example in the course of lectures which has now been revised and made public with DrSteiner s thispermission in Volume To assist those seek the connection between the Spiritual and practical Side of this question theEditor of has kindly permitted me to print as the Introduction to his book a very able article in that j ournal from the pen Mr George Kaufmann The translation of these lectures has been done chiefly by MrSalr eadyM K who has assisted me greatly in former translations and by Miss DOsmond I Opportunitytake this conveying to them my sincere hanks for their Operation in a very di cult task H COLLISON

I trodc tio statesmen and Observers world politics know full well that the greatest and mos t realproblems Of the present and the immediate future concern the of theEast and West They are problems of life and death in the material well as in the spiritual s ense OurWestern scientificomwith its c civilisation merce and industrialism must expand inner impulover the earth moreoverse is to expand it apparently the outward power to But theEthis expansionnot meeting ast is passivelyOn the contrary there is every Sign thatEvery activeawakening to take a ast is part in determining the forms and conditions under which this expansion shall take place Here arises a question fraught with the gravest possi for good evil Willthe Western and Edeeply dif astern civilisations theyerent as are blend and harmonise Will a fuller manity arise and develop in this processOr will they clash in spiritual conflict and at last in external warfare A Spiritual humanity movement in time and such is the movement which has arisen out