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During the early 17th century, Europe was suddenly embroiled in controversy with the publication of the first Rosicrucian texts. Ever since then, Rosicrucianism has stood at the center of Western Christian esotericism. Forced underground by the thirty year's war, it was passed down secretly by alchemists, hermeticists,and masons into the 19th century, when it inspired spiritual renewal that included Theosophy, the Order of Golden Dawn, and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.

The Secret Stream collects all of Steiner's discussions of Rosicrucianism, which answer questions such as: Who were the Rosicrucians? What is Alchemy? What is the Rosicrucian path? What is the difference between Rosicrucianism and mysticism? And what does it mean for today? Topics include the Tao and the Rose Cross; the history and mission of Christian Rosenkreutz; the nature of Rosicrucian practice and experience; the meaning of The Chymical Wedding and Goethe's Rosicrucian poem "The Mysteries," the text of which is included. Rosicrucian meditation is also discussed, including how to meditate on the Rose Cross itself.

This important collection goes to the spiritual heart of anthroposophy, the essence of which is the Rosicrucian path. ... Read more

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The Secret Stream
The Secret Stream was a excellant series of essays on Rosicrucianism and Alchemy, and also the esoteric history of mankind.
To the nominal reader, it may be overwhelming, but to those interested in profundus, the deep rather than the superficial or materialistic wont, and having some experience with the concepts of Alchemy and Rosicrucianism, the book has quality even if its not taken by faith alone, and I do not believe anything taken on faith alone reflects much on the reader who seeks veritas or truth.
It is a series of essays by Stiener, who is a German Scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and invested great effort in the idea of spiritualism[though under many nomen], or the idea that, matter being a receptive apparent quality that is founded upon a more active essential component and is transcendent or rather transcends the superficial, apparenent sensually.
Stiener writes as a scholar, and thinks as a scholar, and one of the themes, as there are many is that, around the late parts of the 13th century, mankind embraced materialism, the separation of science and religion and the devaluing of essential thinking, which had ramifications inwardly, or created a threshold of experience which limited total percipience but fomented the maturation of the facility of reason within man, thus it was neccessitated.
In that scheme, Rosicrucianism and ALchemy were fomented actively, intentionally, to develope a modality of integrating love into knowledge or knowledge to the cross respectively, or rather balancing the apathetic tendancies of pure reason with its balance compassion.
It also considers Rosicrucion methodology as Steiner saw it, investigated Geothe and some of the initial documents of Rosicrucianism and its symbology.
A good book, I do not quite do it service it is due, as it's been a month since I finished it.
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The Congress of the Federation of the European Sections of the Theosophical Society was held in Munich at Whitsun 1907 and marked the emergence of Anthroposophy from Theosophy. Rudolf Steiner surprised some participants and dismayed others when he introduced the Rosicrucian path—a path of thinking and the unification of art, science, and religion into the greater theosophical tradition.

The red draped walls of the meeting hall and the artistic representations of the Apocalyptic Seals and the Planetary Seals surrounded a performance of The Sacred Drama of Eleusis, a mystery drama by Édouard Schuré. With this seminal event, a new and decisive element entered the spiritual stream of the day. Also at this congress, Steiner laid the foundation of his idea for a building that, after several transformations, culminated in the Johannes-Bau (the first Goetheanum), in Dornach, Switzerland. He thus indicated the possibility and spiritual need for a new style of architecture and the importance of having a place dedicated to the performance of the mystery dramas. With this congress in Munich, Rudolf Steiner planted the seeds of Anthroposophy, or spiritual science, as we know it today.

This volume contains the lectures by Rudolf Steiner at that congress as well as additional related talks from other occasions that amplify the substance, intent, and effects of ground-breaking meeting. In addition to Steiner’s talks, reports are included from others concerning the congress in Munich and its effects.

This "Collected Works" edition contains an introduction, illustrations, a chronology of Rudolf Steiner’s life, editorial notes, and an index. ... Read more

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