Rudolf Steiner Archive

Esoteric Development

By Rudolf Steiner

Various translators, edited by Alice Wulsin
Various Bn/GA numbers

Steiner depicts here the experience of his non-mystical, scientifically clear path to a cultivation of inner faculties for experiencing super-sensible realities. Topics covered include the "six basic exercises," fasting, suitable content and practical requirements for meditative training, changes and stages of inner awareness, the role of love in acquiring higher knowledge, the development of higher sense organs or chakras, and the three types of esoteric paths: Oriental Yoga, Christian-Gnostic, and European Rosicrucian.

“With an informative introduction by Alan Howard, Esoteric Development is a useful introduction to the spiritual development exercises taught by Rudolf Steiner.” - New Age Book Review.

Edited by Alice Wulsin and with a cover design by Peter Van Oordt, this volume is presented here with the kind permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.

	Cover Sheet
	Introduction
	Contents
	Publisher's Note

Lecture I:	Inner Development	December 07, 1905
	Lecture, December 7, 1905; Bn/GA number 54. Translated for this volume by Gertrude Teutsch.
Lecture II:	Psychological Foundations of Anthroposophy	April 08, 1911
	Lecture, April 8, 1911; Bn/GA number 35. Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker. First published by Anthroposophic Press, Inc. Translation revised for this volume.
Lecture III:	Supersensible Knowledge: Anthroposophy As a Demand of the Age	September 26, 1923
	Lecture, September 26, 1923; Bn/GA number 84. Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker. First published by Anthroposophic Press, Inc. 1943. Translation revised for this volume. (See this original translation as Lecture I in the lecture series, Supersensible Knowledge (Anthroposophy) as a Demand of the Age.
Lecture IV:	Attainment of Supersensible Knowledge	August 20, 1922
	Lecture, August 20, 1922; GA #305. First published in the Anthroposophy Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 2 (1929). Translation revised extensively for this volume. Permission to revise original translation kindly granted by Rudolf Steiner Press.
Chapter V:	General Demands Which Every Aspirant for Occult Development Must Put to Himself
	Written work; GA #245. Previously published by Rudolf Steiner Press as part of the volume Guidance in Esoteric Training. Revised for this volume with the kind permission of Rudolf Steiner Press.
Chapter VI:	Further Rules in Continuation of General Demands
	Written text; GA #245. Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
Lecture VII:	The Great Initiates	March 16, 1905
	Lecture, March 16, 1905; GA #53. Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
Lecture VIII:	The Path of Knowledge and Its Stages: The Rosicrucian Spiritual Path	October 20, 1906
	Lecture, October 20, 1906; GA #96. Translated for this volume by Diane Tatum.
Lecture IX:	Imaginative Knowledge and Artistic Imagination	October 21, 1906
	Lecture, October 21, 1906; GA #96. Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.
Lecture X:	The Three Decisions on the Path of Imaginative Cognition	March 02, 1915
	Lecture, March 2, 1915; GA #157. Revised for this volume from an unpublished manuscript.

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