" According to Anthroposophy, moral development reveals the extent to which one has achieved control over one's inner life and can exercise it in harmony with the spiritual life of other people ; it shows the real progress in spiritual development, the fruits of which are given in spiritual perception.

# The persons gathered in Dornach as the nucleus of the Society recognise and endorse the view of the leadership at the Goetheanum ( represented by the Vorstand Council formed at the Foundation Meeting ): ' Anthroposophy, as fostered at the Goetheanum, leads to results which can serve every human being as a stimulus to spiritual life, whatever his nation, social standing or religion.

Sophia also figures prominently in Theosophy, a spiritual movement which Anthroposophy was closely related to.

A round in the esoteric cosmology of Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism is a cosmic cycle or sequence by which an evolving reincarnating being passes through the various stages of existence as the Earth, the Solar System or the Cosmos comes into and passes out of manifestation.

In his later life, Steiner was accused by the Nazis of being a Jew, and Adolf Hitler labelled Anthroposophy " Jewish methods.

The distinction was important to Steiner because he sought with Anthroposophy to create a scientific, not faith-based, spirituality.

Anthroposophy was founded by Rudolf Steiner ( 1861-1925 ) as a schism of the Theosophical Society.

This early Anthroposophy showed a strong Germanic predominance — English Anthroposophy was initially limited to a small anonymous club during WWI ; there also seem to have been some founding members from the Netherlands and other European countries —, and functioned as a German-speaking esotericism ; however, the choice of Switzerland over Weimar for the Goetheanum argues against a narrow nationalistic view of the Anthroposophical Society.

From a philosophical point of view, Torres García was strongly influenced by the Theosophy of Helena Blavatsky and the Anthroposophy of Rudolf Steiner, as were other artists of the day, such as Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, and Vasili Kandinski.

The goddess Sophia was introduced into Anthroposophy by its founder, Rudolf Steiner, in his book The Goddess: From Natura to Divine Sophia and a later compilation of his writings titled Isis Mary Sophia.

" The subject came up between them when Barfield had converted to Anthroposophy and was persuading Lewis ( an atheist at that time ) to join him.

Rosetta was a keen follower of Anthroposophy ; Susie was a Co-Freemason and Theosophist, and Ernie, who claimed to have been fully aware from the moment of his birth, was an enthusiastic esotericist and taught mental exercises in the Crotona Fellowship.

Hubbard was also involved in Anthroposophy and served as president of the Anthroposophical Society in the United States.

Anthroposophy, a philosophy founded by Rudolf Steiner, postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world accessible to direct experience through inner development.

At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of idealist philosophy and with links to Theosophy.

Martin Buber and Hugo Bergmann, who viewed Steiner's social ideas as a solution to the Arab – Jewish conflict, were also influenced by Anthroposophy.

Examples of esoteric cosmologies can be found in Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Nagualism, Nagualism ( Carlos Castaneda ), Tantra ( especially Kashmir Shaivism ), Kabbalah, Sufism, the teachings of Jacob Boehme, The Urantia Book, the Sant Mat / Surat Shabda Yoga tradition, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, The Cosmic Tradition of Max Theon and his wife, Max Heindel ( The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception ), elements of the teachings of Sri Aurobindo, Meher Baba, the Fourth Way propounded by Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, PaGaian Cosmology and many current New Age teachings, to give only a few examples.

These ideas were adapted by later esotericists like Rudolf Steiner ( Anthroposophy ), Max Heindel, Alice Bailey, and Ann Ree Colton, and some of these ideas were included in New Age thought.

Hinduism-inspired elements in Theosophy were also inherited by the spin-off movements of Ariosophy and Anthroposophy and ultimately contributed to the renewed New Age boom of the 1960s to 1980s, the term New Age itself deriving from Blavatsky's 1888 The Secret Doctrine.

As well as reading books by Crowley, Frieda Harris ' studies of Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy were to be a critical aspect in the creation of the Thoth deck.

Use of mistletoe extract in the treatment of cancer originated with Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy.

* Anthroposophy ( Rudolf Steiner )

* According to the Anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner, the Mystery of the foundation of the Rosicrucian Order in the early 14th century relates to the birth of Christian Rosenkreuz in the 13th century, and his later rebirth in the 14th century.

Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, often referred to the etheric body ( Ätherleib or " Life Body ") in association with the etheric formative forces and the evolution of man and the cosmos.

Steiner termed his work from this period on Anthroposophy.

He sat in on several lectures and had one or two interviews with Steiner and he could learn about occult truth from the founder of later Anthroposophy, but at the same time he understood that this teacher could not help him to advance along the path of spiritual development.

Examples of esoteric religious movements and philosophies include Alchemy, Astrology, Anthroposophy, early Christian mysticism, Magic, Mesmerism, Rosicrucianism, Swedenborgianism, Spiritualism, the Alawites, the Christian Theosophy of Jacob Böhme and his followers, and the Theosophical currents associated with Helena Blavatsky and her followers.

In Theosophy, Anthroposophy and Rosicrucianism, involution and evolution are part of a complex sequence of cosmic cycles, called Round.

Anthroposophy describes a broad evolution of human consciousness.

Anthroposophy speaks of the reincarnation of the human spirit: that the human being passes between stages of existence, incarnating into an earthly body, living on earth, leaving the body behind and entering into the spiritual worlds before returning to be born again into a new life on earth.

Anthroposophy took over from Theosophy a complex system of cycles of world development and human evolution.

Anthroposophy continues to aim at reforming society through maintaining and strengthening the independence of the spheres of cultural life, human rights and the economy.

Christian and Jewish mystical thought have also influenced the development of Anthroposophy.

Anthroposophy has had many prominent supporters outside of the movement.

Ouspensky, who Bennett met through Prince Sabaheddin, a reformist thinker who had introduced him to a wide range of religious and occultist ideas, including Theosophy and Anthroposophy.

The akashic records ( akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning " sky ", " space " or " aether ") is a term used in theosophy ( and Anthroposophy ) to describe a compendium of mystical knowledge encoded in a non-physical plane of existence.

Vedanta ( Advaita Vedanta ), Ayyavazhi, shamanism, Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Kashmir Shaivism, Sant Mat / Surat Shabd Yoga, Sufism, Druze, Kabbalah, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, Rosicrucianism ( Esoteric Christian ), Eckankar, Ascended Master Teachings, etc.

It was the only thing in his life for which he felt guilt.

The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.

There a dozen giant monitors played their seventy-five-foot jets of water against the huge seam of tertiary gravel which was the mountainside.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.

Jess's coarse features twisted in a surprised grin which was smashed out of shape by Curt's fist.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

I was again in motion and at a speed which belied the truck's similarity to Senor X's Ford turtle.

But it was only Johnson reaching around the wire chicken fencing, which half covered the truck cab's glassless rear window.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.

There was something about the contour of her face, her smile that was like New Orleans sunshine, the way she held her head, the way she walked -- there was scarcely anything she did which did not fascinate me.