Rudolf Steiner

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Rudolf Steiner, born in Croatia, was an Austrian philosopher, social thinker, architect and esotericist. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he founded a new spiritual movement, anthroposophy as esoteric philosophy, which grew from the European transcendentalism and with links to Theosophy.
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During his studies he met a simple herb collector who was talking to him about the spiritual world, and he later got to know with person, which Steiner revealed only as a “master” who have had a great influence on its further development, especially when he directed him into study of Fichet philosophy.
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In 1899 Steiner published an article under the heading Goethe’s Secret Revelation, which talks about the esoteric nature of Goethe’s fairy tale about snake. On the basis of this article, the Count and Countess Brockdorff invited to give lectures in theosophical circle of Nitsche. Steiner has since regularly lectured to members of the Theosophical Society, and in 1902 became president at the newly established section in Germany, without ever formally joined the Society.
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In 1904 he was appointed by Annie Besant as head of the Theosophical Society esoteric for Germany and Austria. The German section of the Theosophical Society, under the Steiner’s guidance, quickly grew and progressed, as he gave lectures on spiritual science at Europe-wide. During this period, Steiner maintained an original approach and replaced the terminology of H.P. Blavatsky with his and basified his spiritual research and learnings on the Western esoterics and philosophical traditions. This and other differences, in particular Steiner’s rejection of C. W. Leadbeater and statement of Annie Besant that Jiddu Krishnamurti is driver of a modern reincarnation of Christ, have led to formal division in 1912/13, when Steiner and the vast majority of the members of the German section of the Theosophical Society therefor leaves and forms a new group, the Anthroposophical Society.
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In 1919, at the request of Emil Molt, the owner of the tobacco factory Waldorf – Astoria in Stuttgart, has developed an educational model for children, which became the basis for the first Waldorf school in Austria.
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Literature:
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Blavatsky, H. P. (1992). Voice of Silence.

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