In 1882, at the age of 21, Rudolf Steiner's life was changed forever by a seemingly chance meeting on a train. Traveling between Vienna and his home town of Pottschach, Steiner fell into conversation with Felix Koguzki, a lowly herb-gatherer who claimed to have personal and direct knowledge of higher worlds of spiritual attainment. Koguzki arranged for the young man to meet a mysterious individual, someone Steiner refers to only as a 'Master', who seems to have guided him successfully towards spiritual enlightenment. Steiner's book 'Theosophy' was published 28 years later, in 1910, and is a...

Rudolf Steiner shows, by means of mystical knowledge, how the source of Christianity prepared its own ground in the mysteries of pre-Christian times. In this pre-Christian mysticism, we find the soil in which Christianity grew, as a seed of independent nature. Steiner makes it possible to understand Christianity as an independent being, while traced from pre-Christian mysticism. This book is intended to show that Christianity presupposes the earlier mysticism, just as a seed must have its soil. It is intended to emphasise the peculiar character of the essence of Christianity, through the...

From a true Master, this is a quintesential guide for the spiritual seeker, on a path of esoteric initiation. Steiner lays out the basics, such as the stages of initiation, practical aspects and conditions of attainment, and the results of spiritual attainment. Steiner also reveals the transformation of dream life, the continuity of Consciousness, and much more.

Rudolf Steiner provides an accurate description of his own extra sensory experiences and the extra sensory information revealed through his experiences. In this book, Steiner reveals a deep understanding of human nature, beginning with the physical body, and moving up through the soul, to our spiritual being and the higher aspects of our spiritual being. Steiner discusses the human experience as a sevenfold being of body, soul, and spirit. Steiner also gives an overview of the laws of reincarnation and the workings of karma. This book shows the different ways we exist, during life on earth...

Given his energetic involvement in practical initiatives and extensive lecturing, Rudolf Steiner had very little time to write. Of the books he found time to write, four titles are considered indispensable introductions to his teaching as a whole: How to Know Higher Worlds; An Outline of Esoteric Science; Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path; and Theosophy. With the exception of his Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts and Autobiography, Steiner's writings belong to his earliest work.

In this classic translation of Theosophy, Steiner brings us a...

Occult Science is Rudolf Steiner's term for the ancient Way of Initiation, and in this book he shows that an objective description of the spiritual experience, (one quite as balanced as the findings of external science), is both possible and attainable. Material scientists pour scorn on the idea of other spiritual worlds, but it is unreasonable to expect that instruments of gross matter will ever detect the highly attenuated spiritual dimensions. Occult scientists consider the human body is the best, perhaps the only, instrument capable to reaching these dimensions, and while all such...

Rudolf Steiner Press has published a new series of re-edited, re-typeset, and re-designed editions of the classic, authorized translations of Rudolf Steiner's foundational books. Each volume of this series is printed in a limited edition of 1,000 copies and sewn-bound in high-quality cloth, finished with colored end papers, and includes a book-mark ribbon.

Steiner's foundational handbook for spiritual and personal development has grown more modern with time, though his methods remain clearly distinguishable from many current paths of inner work. First, Steiner's method is...

Written in 1909 (CW 13)

Given his energetic involvement in practical initiatives and extensive lecturing, Steiner had very little time to write. Of the books he found time to write, four titles are considered indispensable introductions to his teaching as a whole: How to Know Higher Worlds; An Outline of Esoteric Science; Intuitive Thinking As a Spiritual Path; and Theosophy. With the exception of his Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts and his Autobiography, Steiner's important writings belong largely to his earliest work.

The...