THE IMAGINATION OF PENTECOST: RUDOLF STEINER & CONTEMPORARY SPIRITUALITY
Richard Leviton
"Richard Leviton draws together in a comprehensive and insightful manner the diverse threads of the New Age movement and the teachings of Steiner....this book is a feast for the spiritual imagination." David Spangler, author of 'Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred'
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"An imagination is the thought-matrix, the living picture from which physical reality manifests."
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"We will wake ourselves up inwardly through our own willed activity, and through this life redeem thinking."
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"The cosmos becomes aware of itself through an awakening humanity, recognizing its spiritual elements…Our cognition of the cosmic constituency of the human being is itself an act of cosmic self-awareness, in which the inherent self-reflexivity of the Logos becomes activated."
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"The necessary enlivening of human thinking and the respiritualization of intelligence is a movement initiated from within the soul forces of each individual."
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"The world, the universe, is the spoken Word of the Logos."
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"The human is a living miniaturization of the cosmos."
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"Self-knowledge is knowledge of the world and world knowledge is knowledge of the self."
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"Divine Wisdom lies at the foundation of everything."
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"Spiritual knowledge, if it's genuine, if it's transmitted correctly, will quicken a human's nature. Spiritual information should help humans find their bearings in life; it would kindle within a deeper love, more understanding. The results are actual life and not dead theory; they come alive in a person and lead one to the whole Anthropos, the complete human."
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"Humanity is ripening towards a time of unilateral cooperation."
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"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality."
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"The human, in the act of knowing, of attaining knowledge, actually participates in the creation of the world, contributing something indispensable to the wholeness of being. Cognition is world generative and, through the pure moral impulses it produces, it is equally world restorative."
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"At the moment in which man realizes that he is embedded within the total organism of the earth…at that moment there exists an objective basis for morality." Rudolf Steiner
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"We must willingly cooperate with the intentions of evolution and spiritual destiny. Our moral failure to develop spiritual cognition would render this future barren."
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"The Christ is forevermore united with Earth and human evolution."
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"The Christ is a generic inner fact of the world and Earth history – and a fact highly worth knowing."
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"A great deal lies waiting in the womb of our spiritual evolution, but it can come to birth only through our willing, conscious cooperation."
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"Through enlivened thinking and the exercise of living imagination, humans will return light to the cosmos. Something will be added to the world through our cognitive activity."
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"Human and Cosmos are not only reciprocally related but, even though the apparent forms differ, [are] mirror images of each other."
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"The Christ is the historical 'living force', always present, who exemplifies freedom of the heart and freely willed fraternity."
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"Human, cosmos, and supersensible worlds are all interdependently linked and have unfolded together. In other words, the creation, elaboration, and progression of the solar system, humanity, and the hierarchies were synchronous events. In a sense, each is a different face in a different context of the same thing: the Logos."
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"Christ Jesus is the representative, the embodiment of the power which imparts to mankind the full consciousness of the 'I am'." Rudolf Steiner, 'The Gospel of Matthew'
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"The unfoldment of the human and the cosmos are reciprocally interdependent and simultaneous events."
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"Our real identity and cognitive range includes the entire cosmos and all its beings, and we must strive to be a fully conscious, independent investigator, co-creator, and cosmic colleague."
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"Sophia (Holy Wisdom) lies hidden in every atom and every stone, every tree and every flower. Her magic wand of revelation lies concealed within each of us." Rudolf Steiner
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