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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 299.935 EAN: 9780880106122 ISBN: 0880106123 Label: Steinerbooks Manufacturer: Steinerbooks Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 632 Publication Date: March 15, 2007 Publisher: Steinerbooks Studio: Steinerbooks Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Alongside the Esoteric Section, Rudolf Steiner created the "Cognitive Cultic Section," a ritual order connected to Masonic tradition, but independent and anthroposophical in inspiration. This astonishing volume contains the rituals, lectures, meditations, and other instructions Steiner gave. As he began to establish his esoteric mission, Rudolf Steiner chose to connect his spiritual goals and efforts with the wisdom streams that had prepared the ground for his task. For the sake of conscience, gratitude, and continuity, he determined to acknowledge those who preceded him and to relate himself to them in his characteristically free, creative, conscious, and independent way. Steiner also understood that ritual was central, even necessary, as the essence of embodied spiritual work. For this reason, he saw Freemasonry as the preeminent spiritual, non-sectarian, communitarian paradigm. He knew, too, that Freemasonry, though it appeared hollow, was perhaps the main repository of esoteric, ritual tradition and initiation remaining in the West. Most of the guiding spirits in the recent Western development had been Masons, including Goethe, Herder, Lessing, the founders of the United States, as well as Madame Blavatsky and the other great esotericists of the nineteenth century. Although he never "became" a Mason, in 1905 the "Great Orient of the Scottish A & A Thirty-Three Degree Rite of the Order of the Ancient Freemasons of the Memphis-Misraim Rite" granted Rudolf Steinerbased on his self-evident, extraordinary initiatory statusa patent to direct his own "order" under the name "Mystica Aeterna." He received his charter from Theodore Reuss of the Ordo Templum Orientalis or O.T.O. Nevertheless, Steiner was never a member of, nor did he have any involvement with, the O.T.O. Reuss had received permission to operate the Memphis-Misraim rite from John Yarker, who, some twenty years previously, had initiated Madame Blavatsky into the same Order. In time, Mystica Aeterna became the "Cognitive Cultic Section" (also called the "Misraim Service") of the Esoteric School of the German Section of the Theosophical Society; this is the subject of this book. The "Masonic" phase in Rudolf Steiners life and work passed, but it remains transformed and alive in many ways in Anthroposophy as he handed it down to us today. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Interesting about Misraim FreemasonryThis is a real interesting Book about what might be called esoteric Freemasonry. Steiner gives many interesting perspectives on Freemasonry that you simply don't find anywhere alse. Steiner's logdes of Freemasonry followed the so called Misraim-rite, a rite of Freemasonry dating from 1788. The Misraim-rite has certain egyptian elements in it. There have been many Misraim-lodges in Europe and America (and Egypt), but none that has gone so deep into the esoteric meaning of masonry as Steiner's groups ... Read More Rating:  - meals and menuesThis is an amazing piece of documentation. And it has an enormously well-researched, conscientious, five star introduction by Christopher Bamford, which alone is worth the book. Still, my feelings towards this publication are mixed. Having had the fortunate destiny to be initiated into this tradition a decade ago - yes, it is alive and well, albeit small - I know from first hand experience what a blessing it can be to undergo the process described in the book. Thus I must ... Read More Rating: - A major contribution to esoteric studiesRudolf Steiner is. widely regarded as the most important esoteric thinker of the 20th century, yet his polymath influence remains largely unrecognized. Recent research in neuroscience has been confirming important features of his map of the mind and human being, while he also forecast problems with mad cow disease, the Baltic states and children's development, to name but three, pretty much as they have turned out. His advanced organic farming method, Biodynamics, has become the hot new development in ... Read More 
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