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A collection of extracts from Steiner's books and lectures which examines the Mystery schools of the ancient world, and their relevance to Christianity and the world today.
Description
Around this collection of extracts from Steiner's books and lectures, the author examines the Mystery schools of the ancient world, and their relevance to Christianity and the world today.
Steiner wrote and spoke extensively on the Mystery-structure of the Christian experience. This collection includes Steiner's account of the mystic patterns of the ancient world, the pre-Socratic and the Platonic philosophers, initiation Mysteries in Egypt and the Orient, and finally, his commentary on the apocalypse of St John.
Author
Andrew Welburn taught at the University of London, has been a Fellow of the Warburg Institute and taught at New College, Oxford, until 2005. He is author of several books on the Romantic tradition, and also of The Beginnings of Christianity, and Gnosis: The Mysteries and Christianity.
Links
Here are some more books by Andrew Welburn which might be of interest:
The Beginnings of Christianity: Essene Mystery, Gnostic Revelation and the Christian Vision
Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy and the Crisis of Contemporary Thought
Myth of the Nativity: The Virgin Birth Re-examined
Gnosis, the Mysteries and Christianity: An Anthology of Essene, Gnostic and Christian Writings
