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During the early 17th century, Europe was suddenly embroiled in controversy with the publication of the first Rosicrucian texts. Ever since then, Rosicrucianism has stood at the center of Western Christian esotericism. Forced underground by the thirty year's war, it was passed down secretly by alchemists, hermeticists, and masons into the 19th century, when it inspired spiritual renewal that included Theosophy, the Order of Golden Dawn, and Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science.

The Secret Stream collects all of Steiner's discussions of Rosicrucianism, which answer questions such as: Who were the Rosicrucians? What is Alchemy? What is the Rosicrucian path? What is the difference between Rosicrucianism and mysticism? And what does it mean for today? Topics include the Tao and the Rose Cross; the history and mission of Christian Rosenkreutz; the nature of Rosicrucian practice and experience; the meaning of The Chymical Wedding and Goethe's Rosicrucian poem "The Mysteries," the text of which is included. Rosicrucian meditation is also discussed, including how to meditate on the Rose Cross itself.

This important collection goes to the spiritual heart of anthroposophy, the essence of which is the Rosicrucian path.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #983616 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-01
• Original language: German
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

About the Author
RUDOLF STEINER (1861-1925) became a respected and well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, particularly known for his work on Goethe's scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his earlier philosophical principles into an approach to methodical research of psychological and spiritual phenomena. His multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, philosophy, religion, education, special education (the Camphill movement), economics, agriculture (biodynamics), science, architecture, and the arts (drama, speech and eurythmy). In 1924 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which has branches throughout the world.

Customer Reviews

The Secret Stream
The Secret Stream was a excellant series of essays on Rosicrucianism and Alchemy, and also the esoteric history of mankind.
To the nominal reader, it may be overwhelming, but to those interested in profundus, the deep rather than the superficial or materialistic wont, and having some experience with the concepts of Alchemy and Rosicrucianism, the book has quality even if its not taken by faith alone, and I do not believe anything taken on faith alone reflects much on the reader who seeks veritas or truth.
It is a series of essays by Stiener, who is a German Scholar in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and invested great effort in the idea of spiritualism[though under many nomen], or the idea that, matter being a receptive apparent quality that is founded upon a more active essential component and is transcendent or rather transcends the superficial, apparenent sensually.
Stiener writes as a scholar, and thinks as a scholar, and one of the themes, as there are many is that, around the late parts of the 13th century, mankind embraced materialism, the separation of science and religion and the devaluing of essential thinking, which had ramifications inwardly, or created a threshold of experience which limited total percipience but fomented the maturation of the facility of reason within man, thus it was neccessitated.
In that scheme, Rosicrucianism and ALchemy were fomented actively, intentionally, to develope a modality of integrating love into knowledge or knowledge to the cross respectively, or rather balancing the apathetic tendancies of pure reason with its balance compassion.
It also considers Rosicrucion methodology as Steiner saw it, investigated Geothe and some of the initial documents of Rosicrucianism and its symbology.
A good book, I do not quite do it service it is due, as it's been a month since I finished it.