• The substance of thinking

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    23-08-2017 2 comments

    The substance of thinking

    As a foundation of spiritual science we have to come to the substance of thinking. Every-day thoughts, also scientific thoughts, are just images – whether true or not, right or not. This is the characteristic of intellectual thinking. We don't have to make greater discretion in the word 'thinking'. Every thought is an imag... read more...

  • Aristotle, completed by Fichte

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    16-08-2017 0 comments

    Aristotle, completed by Fichte

    'Fichte may at this point supplement Aristotle. A formula along Aristotelian lines may be reached to the effect that everything about us, including all things belonging to the invisible worlds, necessarily call for a material reality to correspond with form-reality. To Aristotle the idea of God is a pure actuality, a pure act, t... read more...

  • The Matter of Spirit

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    02-08-2017 3 comments

    The Matter of Spirit

    'Since those days humanity has entered upon a quite different phase of evolution, the characteristics of which I have described from many points of view. Since the fifteenth century, mankind has been laid hold of by the intellectualism which now has sovereign sway in all human culture and civilisation, and arose because an older... read more...

  • Performance of thinking

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    26-07-2017 0 comments

    Performance of thinking

    Thoughts are reflections, they 'fall into consciousness', they are not performed. When an actor learns his role by heart, he has a great deal of thoughts in his mind. But then the rehearsals start and what were thoughts before have to be performed now. We have to become actors in the world of thinking itself, and a meditation li... read more...

  • Thinking and time

    by Mieke Mosmuller

    19-07-2017 2 comments

    Thinking and time

    It is import to differentiate between bringing on thoughts with will, and bringing the will into the thoughts. Here is a pair of meditations coming from Rudolf Steiner.... read more...