Rudolf Steiner describes this creation out of nothing in such a way that everything that we recognize through logical thinking and that goes beyond the necessary knowledge actually is a creation out of nothing. He gives the example that something has been stolen and one has an idea about who the thief is. One can remain entirely... read more...
A good example is the church with the priest and the faithful people in the radioactively contaminated area of Chernobyl. This area would be uninhabitable for 20,000 years, and it would take that long for the radioactive radiation there to drop to harmless levels. In the meantime, however, a religious community has settled in Ch... read more...
I have elsewhere mentioned that if a Christian sage were to be compared with the Buddhist one, he would have spoken differently to King Milinda. The Buddhist said to the King: ‘Consider the carriage, wheels, shaft, and so on; they are parts of the carriage, and beyond these parts carriage is only a name and form. With the ... read more...
In this introduction to mysticism, the "mystical sense", the mystical organ of perception as the inner sense organ, is described as the observation of one's own total inner content, completely free of all nature and senses, so that one's own soul is embedded in the world content and thus becomes one with it. In this way theConsc... read more...
There are people who can be so immersed in their -associative or searching - thoughts that they would not notice, as it were, if a tumult of any kind were to break out right next to them. Something similar must be deliberately pursued in meditation, but in active pure thinking, in which the whole life of feeling and all initiati... read more...