Encounter with Nature
At this moment, nature seems to keep silent still. But in Holland the little crocuses are appearing in the roadside and the public gardens. Looking at it and experiencing what this means, the soul exclaims: Now the desire to grow, the germinating and growing power of the world-being want to be carried into the human […]
The castle of the fisherman king 2018
The image of Plato’s cave is given a new shape in the Middle Ages (12th century) in the Parsival Saga. There is told about a castle, ‘unreachable for our steps’. There are two famous versions of this saga, a German one by Wolfram von Eschenbach, and the older French version by Chrestien de Troyes. The […]
Natura speaks 2018
‘I am she who have fashioned the form and eminence of man into the likeness of the original mundane mechanism, that in him, as in a mirror of the world itself, combined nature may appear. For just as, of the four elements, the concordant discord, the single plurality, the dissonant consonance, the dissenting agreement, produce […]
Rudolf Steiner about Troxler
Taking his start from such presuppositions, Troxler has an inkling of a “higher man” within the man that experiences himself in the sense world; this “higher man” underlies the sense-perceptible man and belongs to the supersensible world; and in this view Troxler feels himself to be in harmony with what Friedrich Schlegel expressed. And thus, […]
Troxler and Lavater
From: Lectures on Philosophy by Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler 6th lecture, p. 81 ‘It is about a different knowledge as to quality and essence. The sense and spirit of all divine revelation can only be experienced and understood by a sense of human nature that is higher, inner, above priori and posteriori, above the understanding […]
A forgotten stream in Swiss spiritual life
About thirty-five years ago I had my stormy encounter with anthroposophy. It happened in one night. My husband was out to a delivery (we were general practitioners then, and I was at home to receive telephone messages). We had bought a few books by Rudolf Steiner to understand why homeopathic remedies work – for we […]
About the persistence of the soul after death
A last view into the thoughts of Immanuel Hermann Fichte.Quotes from the paragraphs 133 and 134 from ‘Anthropologie’. §133 “In death and bodily decay, this regression is now completed, in which the laws of inorganic chemistry gain full rights, and let the general world substances emerge from it again independently, which had been temporarily forced […]
Spiritual body, etheric body or astral body … A philosophical attempt by Immanuel Hermann Fichte
From ‘Anthropologie’ § 118… ‘These oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon, which are there in the human body, explain so little the coexistence of a soul in him, so little in the end the faculty of imagining in the latter that one can regard every such attempt to explain it rightly to the greatest delusions of […]
A Forgotten Stream in German Spiritual Life
Quote from: Rudolf Steiner, The Riddle Of Man, GA 20. ‘Thus, in Immanuel Hermann Fichte, the son of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, there appears a thinker who tries to penetrate more deeply into the spiritual than his father, Schelling, or Hegel. Whoever dares to make such an attempt will not only hear from outside the opposition […]
A Preludium to anthroposophy
From: Anthropologie. Die Lehre von der menschliche Seele. Immanuel Hermann Fichte, 1876; Last Paragraph, 265. ‘Anthropology has as its ultimate goal a thorough self-knowledge of the human being, which lies only in the exhaustive recognition of the spirit. Thus it is elevated to ‘anthroposophy’. Truly thorough or pervasive, however, as has been proved from all […]