دانش جهان‌های بالاتر و دستیابی به آن

Discover true self-confidence. This book is a manual for the attainment of spiritual knowledge. It opens new perspectives on the essential tasks of life. This is a classic, tried and true edition of one of Rudolf Steiner's most essential works. In it Steiner spells out the necessary steps for what he calls the most appropriate inner path for modern Western seekers. Steiner begins by describing the necessary conditions we must strive for as we begin such a path. He goes on to explain the "stages of initiation" that one will encounter through diligent, patient practice. He speaks of the transformation of one's dream life, the continuity of consciousness, and other results of practice leading to spiritual initiation. Here is one of the most significant books of the twentieth century by one of its most profound and revolutionary thinkers. This is a work that has helped thousands of people achieve greater vision and effectiveness in life. This is one of the most popular classic translations of Steiner's foundational guide to the spiritual path. Knowledge of the Higher Worlds and Its Attainment is a manual for attaining suprasensory knowledge of the invisible and opens new perspectives on one's essential purpose in life. In 1904, Rudolf Steiner first made this account of the Western esoteric path of initiation public. With great precision, he carefully leads us from the cultivation of the fundamental soul attitudes of reverence and inner tranquility to inner development through the stages of preparation, illumination, and initiation. Practical exercises in inner and outer observation and moral development are given. By patiently and persistently following these, new organs of soul and spirit begin to form that reveal the contours of the higher worlds hitherto concealed from us.'The methods by which a student is prepared for the reception of higher knowledge are minutely prescribed. The direction he is to take is traced with unfading, everlasting letters in the worlds of the spirit where the initiates guard the higher secrets. In ancient times, anterior to our history, the temples of the spirit were also outwardly visible; today, because our life has become so unspiritual, they are not to be found in the world visible to external sight; yet they are present spiritually everywhere, and all who seek may find them.'

There slumber in every human being faculties by means of which he can acquire for himself a knowledge of higher worlds. Mystics, Gnostics, Theosophists - all speak of a world of soul and spirit which for them is just as real as the world we see with our physical eyes and touch with our physical hands. At every moment the listener may say to himself: that, of which they speak, I too can learn, if I develop within myself certain powers which today still slumber within me. -- Rudolf Steiner