Name: The Interior of the Earth: An Esoteric Study of the Subterranean Spheres
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Author: O'Leary, Paul V. ; Steiner, Rudolf
ISBN: 9781855841192

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The Interior of the Earth: An Esoteric Study of the Subterranean Spheres

Type

Physical Book

Author

Rudolf Steiner

Introduction by

Paul V. O'Leary

Publisher

Rudolf Steiner Press

Year

2007

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6 x 15.8 x 1.3 cm

Weight

0.21 kg.

ISBN

1855841193

ISBN13

9781855841192

Synopsis "The Interior of the Earth: An Esoteric Study of the Subterranean Spheres"

Selected lecturesModern science cannot speak with justifiable authority about more than only a tiny fraction of the Earth's interior. We have, literally, scratched just the surface of our planet. Can we know what lies beneath our feet in the unimaginable depths of the Earth? Can spiritual investigation give us answers to our questions about something virtually impossible to perceive through our physical senses?Rudolf Steiner's discussions of the subterranean spheres are gathered, along with notes and an introduction, for the first time in this comprehensive volume. His unique overview pictures of the nine layers of the Earth as they become visible through spiritual scientific research. The strata range from what we know as the "mineral" layer, on which we live, to the Earth's innermost core, which Steiner connects to human and animal reproductive forces. In between these radically different strata are layers such as what Steiner calls the "Mirror Earth," representing qualities of extreme evil, and the "Fire Earth," connected to natural catastrophes.Steiner never conveys abstract or theoretical information, but fact related intimately to humankind. Fire Earth, for example, is acutely affected by human volition. When the human will is chaotic and untrained, says Steiner, it acts magnetically on this layer and disrupts it, leading to volcanic eruptions. He describes other natural catastrophes, such as extreme weather and earthquakes, in connection to the interior of the Earth and to karma.

Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner (Donji Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Croatia, February 25 or 27, 1861-Dornach, Switzerland, March 30, 1925) was an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, educator, artist, playwright, social thinker, and occultist. He was the founder of anthroposophy, Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophic medicine, and the new artistic form of eurythmy.

He described anthroposophy as follows: Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge that would like to lead the spiritual in man to the spiritual in the universe. Those who feel certain questions about the essence of man and the world as a vital necessity as the one felt when we are hungry and thirsty can be anthroposophists.

Steiner proposed a form of ethical individualism, to which he later added a more explicitly spiritual component. He derived his epistemology from the worldview of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, according to which thought is an organ of perception just like the eye or the ear. Just as the eye perceives colors and the ear sounds, so thought perceives ideas.

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