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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"The Human is the symphony of the creative Word and the perpetual revelation of the Logos."
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"'And the Tree of Life shall blossom with a fruit never before known in the creation, and that fruit shall be the New Spirit of Man,' runs the Zapotec prophecy."
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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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"An imagination is the thought-matrix, the living picture from which physical reality manifests."
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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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"By no other way than through cognitive free will could humans come to inner freedom and true individuality."
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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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"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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"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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"In the function of willing burns the fire of the future."
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"Wisdom must become our ideal because everything we do, our thoughts, even our moods, influences the cosmos."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"There are hidden powers in man, which are capable of making a God of him on Earth." H. P. Blavatsky, 'Collected Works'
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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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"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 natural world is permeated with creative Spirit expressing itself as ideas."
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"The unfoldment of the human and the cosmos are reciprocally interdependent and simultaneous events."
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"The Logos speaks to the human in an individual form, through an inner Word which comprises the human's essential being."
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"The Christ is forevermore united with Earth and human evolution."
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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 existence of the planet Earth is far from a random accident in an indifferent cosmos."
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