Mystics After Modernism: Discovering the Seeds of a New Science in the Renaissance (Classics in Anthroposophy) Book

Rudolf Steiner presents a unique and sane response to spiritual imbalance and the loss of human dignity in our postmodern world. Between the Gothic era and the mid-seventeenth century, eleven mystics resolved the conflict between their inner perceptions and the seeds of modern science in the new world of individual freedom. Based on the lives of those men and his own spiritual insight, Steiner shows how their ideas can illuminate and preserve our true human nature today. Mystics after Modernism presents Steiner's revolutionary views of Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Heinrich Suso, Jan van Ruysbroeck, Nicholas of Cusa, Agrippa of Nettesheim, Theophrastus Paracelsus, Valentin Weigel, Jakob Bhme, Giordano Bruno, and Angelus Silesius. The informative and comprehensive afterword by Paul Allen, a lifelong student of spiritual science, describes the historical context and expands Steiner's ideas.Read More