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	'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (Born February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; died March 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded ~~anthroposophy~~, an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, [[Theosophy]], [[Rosicrucianism]], and [[Gnosticism]]. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.		'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (Born February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; died March 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded [[Anthroposophy]], an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, [[Theosophy]], [[Rosicrucianism]], and [[Gnosticism]]. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==

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	An index to Rudolf Steiner's complete works is available online at [http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/Rudolf_Steiner_Complete_Works.php Rudolf Steiner Web].		An index to Rudolf Steiner's complete works is available online at [http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/Rudolf_Steiner_Complete_Works.php Rudolf Steiner Web].

	The [[Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals]] lists over [~~http~~://~~www.austheos~~.org.au/~~cgi-bin~~/~~ui-csvsearch.pl~~?~~search~~=~~Rudolf~~+~~Steiner&method=all&header=field4~~&~~page~~=~~1 159~~ articles by Rudolf Steiner] and [~~http~~://~~www.austheos~~.org.au/~~cgi-bin~~/~~ui-csvsearch.pl~~?~~search~~=~~Rudolf~~+~~Steiner~~&~~method~~=~~all 129~~ articles about him]. Most are from his journal [[Anthroposophy\|''Anthroposophy'']] or [[The Theosophist (periodical)\|''The Theosophist'']].		The [[Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals]] lists over '''[https://theosophicalsociety.org.au/union_index/entries?q=rudolf+steiner&s=author 160 articles by Rudolf Steiner] '''and '''[https://theosophicalsociety.org.au/union_index/entries?q=rudolf+steiner&s=title 130 articles about him]'''. Most are from his journal [[Anthroposophy\|''Anthroposophy'']] or [[The Theosophist (periodical)\|''The Theosophist'']].

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	'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (Born February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; died March 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.		'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (Born February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; died March 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, [[Theosophy]], [[Rosicrucianism]], and [[Gnosticism]]. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.

	== Early life ==		== Early life ==

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	<br>Around 1868, still in Pottschach, Rudolf Steiner had a mysterious experience that had a profound influence on him. It had to do with the suicide of an aunt. He gave two different accounts of this episode. </br>		<br>Around 1868, still in Pottschach, Rudolf Steiner had a mysterious experience that had a profound influence on him. It had to do with the suicide of an aunt. He gave two different accounts of this episode.
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			My parents had no notice of her death. I sat in the waiting room of the train station and saw a vision of what had happened. I tried to tell my parents. They replied, “Don’t be a silly boy”. Some days later, I saw my father become pensive after receiving a letter. Later, in my absence he spoke with my mother, who cried for days thereafter. I heard the details of my aunt’s death only years later.
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	~~<br>“My parents had no notice~~ of ~~her death. I sat in~~ the waiting room of the ~~train station and saw a vision~~ of ~~what had happened. I tried~~ to ~~tell my parents. They replied~~, ~~“Don’t be a silly boy”. Some days~~ later~~, I saw my father become pensive after receiving~~ a ~~letter. Later~~, in ~~my absence he spoke with my mother~~, ~~who cried for days thereafter. I heard~~ the ~~details of my aunt’s death only years later~~.~~” </br>~~		When Rudolf Steiner talked about his childhood and youth in a lecture in Berlin on February 4, 1913, he described the experience in more detail. He mentioned that suddenly the door opened and a woman with a strong family resemblance entered, walked to the middle of the waiting room, gesticulating and uttering words to the effect of: “Try to do all you can do for me, now and later!” She continued to linger for a moment, still gesticulating in a heartrending way, then went towards the hearth and disappeared in it.

	<br>~~When~~ Rudolf Steiner ~~talked about his childhood~~ and ~~youth~~ in a ~~lecture in Berlin on February 4~~, ~~1913~~, ~~he described the experience in more detail~~. He ~~mentioned that suddenly~~ the ~~door opened and a woman with a strong family resemblance entered~~, ~~walked~~ to the ~~middle~~ of the ~~waiting room, gesticulating and uttering words to the effect~~ of~~: “Try to do all you can do~~ for me, ~~now and later!” She continued to linger for a moment, still gesticulating in a heartrending way, then went towards the hearth and disappeared in it~~. </br>		Rudolf Steiner spoke at a later point about the intensity of the desperate gestures and the deep impact they made on him. This “occult-experience” was crucial to Steiner’s further development. He also realized then that it was not possible to speak with most people about inner experiences or questions. <ref> Selg, Peter. Rudolf Steiner: Life and Work: Volume 1 (1860 – 189) Childhood, Youth and Study Years. Web. 9 August 2016.</ref><ref> Lindenberg, Christoph. Rudolf Steiner: A Biography. Great Barrington, MA: Steiner, 2012, page 7</ref><ref> Rudolf Steiner, Autobiographischer Vortrag über die Kindheits- und Jugendjahre bis zur Weimarer Zeit, in: Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe, Heft Nr. 83/84</ref> It was difficult for Steiner to share this experience or his philosophical ideas with any of his friends because they were met with a lot of resistance. Even though during this time people were fascinated with séances, materializations and messages from the dead, Steiner was repulsed by [[Spiritualism\|spiritualism]]. He considered spiritualists “more materialist than the materialists” because, they wanted to prove the existence of the spiritual world by grabbing hold of some physical evidence of it. This was for Steiner like black magic.<ref>Lachman, 47.</ref>

	~~<br>Rudolf~~ Steiner ~~spoke~~ at ~~a later point about~~ the ~~intensity~~ of the ~~desperate gestures and~~ the ~~deep impact they made on him. This “occult-experience” was crucial to Steiner’s further development~~. He ~~also realized then that it was not possible to speak with most~~ people ~~about inner experiences or questions~~. ~~<ref> Selg~~, ~~Peter. Rudolf Steiner: Life and Work: Volume 1 (1860 – 189) Childhood~~, ~~Youth and Study Years. Web. 9 August 2016~~.</ref>~~<ref> Lindenberg~~, ~~Christoph~~. ~~Rudolf Steiner: A Biography. Great Barrington, MA: Steiner, 2012, page 7~~</ref~~><ref> Rudolf Steiner, Autobiographischer Vortrag über die Kindheits- und Jugendjahre bis zur Weimarer Zeit, in: Beiträge zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe, Heft Nr. 83/84</ref> </br~~>		It must have been a relief for Steiner when at the age of eighteen he made the acquaintance of an individual, an herb-gatherer, who felt as at home in the realm of the supersensible as he did himself. He called him a “simple man of the people.” Felix Koguzki, who was then 46 years old, gathered herbs to sell to pharmacists in Vienna. <ref>Lachman, 48.</ref>

	<br>Therefore it was difficult for Steiner to share this experience or his philosophical ideas with any of his friends because they were met with a lot of resistance. Even though during this time people were fascinated with séances, materializations and messages from the dead, Steiner was repulsed by [[Spiritualism\|spiritualism]]. He considered spiritualists “more materialist than the materialists” because, they wanted to prove the existence of the spiritual world by grabbing hold of some physical evidence of it. This was for Steiner like black magic.<ref>Lachman, 47.</ref></br>		Koguzki tried to explain each plant out of its essence, out of its esoteric background, led him to places where rare plants grew and gave Steiner the impression that he was simply the mouthpiece for spirituality from the hidden worlds who conveyed to him the secrets of nature. This herbalist was also the one who, either knowingly or unknowingly, prepared the meeting with Steiner's true esoteric teacher, who Steiner, using a theosophical term, called the [[Masters of Wisdom\|Master]]. Steiner was always reticent concerning the meeting with this spiritual teacher and never mentioned his given name. He only said that in this outer life he was as “unremarkable” as was Felix Koguzki. In his own brief account, Steiner emphasized that since his own spiritual experience allowed him to move independently in the spiritual world, his teacher focused on the regular, systematic aspects of which one must be aware of in the spiritual world as well as on the proper orientation in the spiritual world. From that one can assume that Steiner did participate in a path of esoteric learning. <ref> Lindenberg, Christoph. Rudolf Steiner: A Biography. Great Barrington, MA: Steiner, 2012, page 43ff</ref>

	<br>So it must have been a relief for Steiner when at the age of eighteen he made the acquaintance of an individual, an herb-gatherer, who felt as at home in the realm of the supersensible as he did himself. He called him a “simple man of the people.” Felix Koguzki, who was then 46 years old, gathered herbs to sell to pharmacists in Vienna. <ref>Lachman, 48.</ref></br>

	~~<br>~~Koguzki tried to explain each plant out of its essence, out of its esoteric background, led him to places where rare plants grew and gave Steiner the impression that he was simply the mouthpiece for spirituality from the hidden worlds who conveyed to him the secrets of nature. This herbalist was also the one who, either knowingly or unknowingly, prepared the meeting with Steiner's true esoteric teacher, who Steiner, using a theosophical term, called the Master. Steiner was always reticent concerning the meeting with this spiritual teacher and never mentioned his given name. He only said that in this outer life he was as “unremarkable” as was Felix Koguzki. In his own brief account, Steiner emphasized that since his own spiritual experience allowed him to move independently in the spiritual world, his teacher focused on the regular, systematic aspects of which one must be aware of in the spiritual world as well as on the proper orientation in the spiritual world. From that one can assume that Steiner did participate in a path of esoteric learning. <ref> Lindenberg, Christoph. Rudolf Steiner: A Biography. Great Barrington, MA: Steiner, 2012, page 43ff</ref~~></br~~>

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	<br>Rudolf Steiner was born in Kraljevac, which was then in the dual monarchy Austro-Hungary~~, a stranger in a strange land~~, into a society made up of a rich mix of different ethnic groups~~, at~~ the end of an old era and the birth of a new one. This experience colored both his childhood and youth. <ref>Gary Lachman, ''Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work'' (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007), 3.</ref>; He was the son of Franziska Steiner (1834 – 1918), with whom he always had a loving relationship, and Johann Steiner (1829 – 1910), a minor railway official who thought of himself as a “free spirit”; both parents were from Lower Austria. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf, and Robert A. McDermott. The New Essential Steiner: An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner for the 21st Century. Great Barrington: Lindisfarne, 2009, page 73</ref><ref> Davy, John. "Rudolf Steiner: A Sketch of His Life and Work." Http://www.rsarchive.org. Rudolf Steiner Archive & E.Lib, 28 Oct. 2014. Web. 25 July 2016.</ref>He had a younger sister named Leopoldine (1864 – 1927) who worked as a seamstress and lived with her parents until their death and Gustav (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help all his life.<ref>“Rudolf Steiner.” AnthroWiki. N.p. n.d. http://anthrowiki.at/Rudolf_Steiner. Web 9 Aug. 2016</ref></b>		<br>Rudolf Steiner was born in Kraljevac, which was then in the dual monarchy Austro-Hungary, into a society made up of a rich mix of different ethnic groups. It was the end of an old era and the birth of a new one. This experience colored both his childhood and youth. <ref>Gary Lachman, ''Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work'' (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2007), 3.</ref>; He was the son of Franziska Steiner (1834 – 1918), with whom he always had a loving relationship, and Johann Steiner (1829 – 1910), a minor railway official who thought of himself as a “free spirit”; both parents were from Lower Austria. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf, and Robert A. McDermott. The New Essential Steiner: An Introduction to Rudolf Steiner for the 21st Century. Great Barrington: Lindisfarne, 2009, page 73</ref><ref> Davy, John. "Rudolf Steiner: A Sketch of His Life and Work." Http://www.rsarchive.org. Rudolf Steiner Archive & E.Lib, 28 Oct. 2014. Web. 25 July 2016.</ref>He had a younger sister named Leopoldine (1864 – 1927) who worked as a seamstress and lived with her parents until their death and Gustav (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help all his life.<ref>“Rudolf Steiner.” AnthroWiki. N.p. n.d. http://anthrowiki.at/Rudolf_Steiner. Web 9 Aug. 2016</ref></b>

	<br>Even in his young years Rudolf Steiner moved a lot. When he was 18 months old, the family moved to Mödling, six months later to Pottschach, a small, sleepy village in Lower Austria, in 1869 to Neudörfl, a small Hungarian village near the border of Lower Austria, where they stayed for ten years. He attended the village schools and then the secondary school in Wiener Neustadt. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 15ff</ref></br>		<br>Even in his young years Rudolf Steiner moved a lot. When he was 18 months old, the family moved to Mödling, six months later to Pottschach, a small, sleepy village in Lower Austria, in 1869 to Neudörfl, a small Hungarian village near the border of Lower Austria, where they stayed for ten years. He attended the village schools and then the secondary school in Wiener Neustadt. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 15ff</ref></br>
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	<br> Already in his youth he was aware of his mission and accepted his calling without hesitation. At the age of fourteen he discovered Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and immersed himself in this book despite difficult external circumstances. He also learned bookbinding during that time, as well as stenography and had plenty of opportunities for practical work, especially in the garden. At the same time, he got interested in literature, philosophy, psychology and history, and he started to tutor. His experience as an altar boy opened up a lot of questions for him as well. And already in his youth he was pondering about reincarnation. “During that same time, through spiritual perception I gained a definite understanding of repeated earthly life. I certainly had this insight before then, but in broader outlines, not as clearly defined impression. I did not construct theories about things such as repeated earthly lives; I accepted it as self-evident when I encountered it in literature and otherwise.” <ref> Steiner, ~~Rudolf.~~ Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, ~~page~~ 94</ref></br>		<br> Already in his youth he was aware of his mission and accepted his calling without hesitation. At the age of fourteen he discovered Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and immersed himself in this book despite difficult external circumstances. He also learned bookbinding during that time, as well as stenography and had plenty of opportunities for practical work, especially in the garden. At the same time, he got interested in literature, philosophy, psychology and history, and he started to tutor. His experience as an altar boy opened up a lot of questions for him as well. And already in his youth he was pondering about reincarnation. “During that same time, through spiritual perception I gained a definite understanding of repeated earthly life. I certainly had this insight before then, but in broader outlines, not as clearly defined impression. I did not construct theories about things such as repeated earthly lives; I accepted it as self-evident when I encountered it in literature and otherwise.” <ref>Rudolf Steiner, ''Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907''. (Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999), 94.</ref></br>

	<br>In 1894 he published “Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom”. Then, as the end of the century approached, he left Weimar to edit the avant-garde literary magazine, <i>Magazin für Literatur</i> in Berlin, a city with several radical groups and movements at that time, where he met playwrights and poets. There he was asked to lecture at the Berlin Workers' Training School, sponsored by the trade unions and social democrats. Most of the teaching was Marxist, but he insisted on a free hand. He taught courses on history and natural science, and practical exercises in public speaking. His lectures had such great appeal that he was invited to give a festival address to 7,000 printers at the Berlin circus stadium on the occasion of the Gutenberg jubilee. But in the end his refusal to toe any party line did not endear him to the political activists, and soon after the turn of the century, he was forced to drop this work.<ref> Steiner, ~~Rudolf.~~ Autobiography~~: Chapters in the Course of My Life~~, ~~1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page~~ 245 ff</ref><ref> Davy, ~~John.~~ "Rudolf Steiner: A Sketch of His Life and Work." Http://www.rsarchive.org. Rudolf Steiner Archive & E.Lib, 28 Oct. 2014. Web. 25 July 2016.</ref></br>		<br>In 1894 he published “Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom”. Then, as the end of the century approached, he left Weimar to edit the avant-garde literary magazine, <i>Magazin für Literatur</i> in Berlin, a city with several radical groups and movements at that time, where he met playwrights and poets. There he was asked to lecture at the Berlin Workers' Training School, sponsored by the trade unions and social democrats. Most of the teaching was Marxist, but he insisted on a free hand. He taught courses on history and natural science, and practical exercises in public speaking. His lectures had such great appeal that he was invited to give a festival address to 7,000 printers at the Berlin circus stadium on the occasion of the Gutenberg jubilee. But in the end his refusal to toe any party line did not endear him to the political activists, and soon after the turn of the century, he was forced to drop this work.<ref>Steiner, ''Autobiography'', 245 ff.</ref><ref>John Davy, "Rudolf Steiner: A Sketch of His Life and Work." Http://www.rsarchive.org. Rudolf Steiner Archive & E.Lib, 28 Oct. 2014. Web. 25 July 2016.</ref></br>

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	* Anthroposophical Society [http://www.anthroposophy.org/]		* Anthroposophical Society [http://www.anthroposophy.org/]
	* AnthroWiki in German [http://anthrowiki.at/Rudolf_Steiner]		* AnthroWiki in German [http://anthrowiki.at/Rudolf_Steiner]
			* [https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/steiner-rudolf Steiner, Rudolf] in Theosophy World
	* Rudolf Steiner Web by Daniel Hindes [http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/index.php]		* Rudolf Steiner Web by Daniel Hindes [http://www.rudolfsteinerweb.com/index.php]
	* The Goetheanum [http://www.goetheanum.org/45.html?L=1]		* The Goetheanum [http://www.goetheanum.org/45.html?L=1]

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	* Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings - Berkley Art Museum [http://antroposofi.org/blackboard/index.html]		* Rudolf Steiner's Blackboard Drawings - Berkley Art Museum [http://antroposofi.org/blackboard/index.html]
	* Rudolf Steiner by the Skeptic's Dictionary [http://skepdic.com/steiner.html]		* Rudolf Steiner by the Skeptic's Dictionary [http://skepdic.com/steiner.html]
	* Rudolf Steiner's Meditative Technique by Derek Cameron [~~http~~://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/~~1574#~~ From Insult to Insight: Rudolf Steiner's Meditative Technique]		* Rudolf Steiner's Meditative Technique by Derek Cameron [https://www.theosophical.org/publications/quest-magazine/sp-468946281 From Insult to Insight: Rudolf Steiner's Meditative Technique]
	* The Online Waldorf Library [http://www.waldorflibrary.org/]		* The Online Waldorf Library [http://www.waldorflibrary.org/]

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	'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (* February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; ~~† March~~ 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.		'''Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner''' (Born February 27 or 25, 1861 in Kraljevec, Austro-Hungary, today Croatia; died March 30, 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, mystic, author, natural scientist, scholar and social reformer. He founded anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement with roots in German idealist philosophy, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and Gnosticism. His teachings exerted an influence in various areas of life including education (Waldorf schools), art (eurhythmy), architecture (anthroposophical architecture), medicine (anthroposophical medicine), and agriculture (biodynamic farming). With his ideas he laid the groundwork for today’s revolutions in alternative education, holistic health and organic foods.

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	<br>In 1902 he became the head of the “German Theosophical Society” and read not only [[H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Annie Besant]], but also formed for himself a picture of the [[Theosophical Society]]. Even though he had issues with some parts of the Society and found only among the English theosophists inner meaning that arose from Blavatsky, <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 269</ref> he defended Blavatsky’s work against critics: “She combined what she attained in this way with revelations that arose within herself. She was an individual with peculiar atavistic powers. Spirit worked through her in a dreamlike state of consciousness, just as in ancient times it had acted through leaders of the Mysteries – unlike our modern consciousness, which is illuminated by the consciousness soul. Thus in “Blavatsky the human being” something recurred that was innate within the Mysteries during primordial times.” <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 276</ref>		<br>In 1902 he became the head of the “German Theosophical Society” and read not only [[H. P. Blavatsky]] and [[Annie Besant]], but also formed for himself a picture of the [[Theosophical Society]]. Even though he had issues with some parts of the Society and found only among the English theosophists inner meaning that arose from Blavatsky, <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 269</ref> he defended Blavatsky’s work against critics: “She combined what she attained in this way with revelations that arose within herself. She was an individual with peculiar atavistic powers. Spirit worked through her in a dreamlike state of consciousness, just as in ancient times it had acted through leaders of the Mysteries – unlike our modern consciousness, which is illuminated by the consciousness soul. Thus in “Blavatsky the human being” something recurred that was innate within the Mysteries during primordial times.” <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 276</ref>

	<br> At the time the German Section of the Theosophical Society was established, Steiner also felt it necessary to have his own periodical and he began, together with Maria Sivers, not only a Theosophist who managed the Theosophical Society with him, but also a close friend who he eventually married, the monthly magazine <i>Luzifer</i>, which later merged with the journal <i>Gnosis</i> and appeared as <i>Lucifer-Gnosis</i> In his opinion anthroposophy had developed from his contributions to that periodical and consequently the material became the foundation for anthroposphic activity. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 274 ff</ref></br>		<br> At the time the German Section of the Theosophical Society was established, Steiner also felt it necessary to have his own periodical and he began, together with Maria Sivers, not only a Theosophist who managed the Theosophical Society with him, but also a close friend who he eventually married, the monthly magazine <i>Luzifer</i>, which later merged with the journal <i>Gnosis</i> and appeared as <i>Lucifer-Gnosis.</i> In his opinion anthroposophy had developed from his contributions to that periodical and consequently the material became the foundation for anthroposphic activity. <ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 274 ff</ref></br>

	<br>In 1902 he published the book <i>Christianity as a Mystical Fact. </i> Additional works after that were published in the Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing Company, which was made possible through Marie von Sivers’. After a booklet that contained notes from lectures he had given at the Berlin Independent College, he published<i>Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and other writings. </i><ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 280</ref> </br>		<br>In 1902 he published the book <i>Christianity as a Mystical Fact. </i> Additional works after that were published in the Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing Company, which was made possible through Marie von Sivers’. After a booklet that contained notes from lectures he had given at the Berlin Independent College, he published<i>Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path: A Philosophy of Freedom and other writings. </i><ref> Steiner, Rudolf. Autobiography: Chapters in the Course of My Life, 1861-1907. Hudson, NY: Anthroposophie, 1999, page 280</ref> </br>