GA 7

Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age

Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung (1901)

„What I present in this paper was previously the content of lectures which I gave in the Theosophical Library in Berlin last winter. I was invited by Countess and Count Brockdorff to speak on mysticism to an audience to whom the things are an important question of life. - Ten years ago I would not have dared to fulfil such a wish. Not as if the world of ideas I am expressing today did not live in me then. This world of ideas is already completely contained in my "Philosophy of Freedom". But in order to express this world of ideas as I do today, and to make it the basis of a reflection as it is done in this writing, something else is required than to be firmly convinced of its intellectual truth. It requires an intimate contact with this world of ideas, as only many years of life can bring. Only now, after I have enjoyed this contact, do I dare to speak as one will perceive in this writing.“ (Lit.:GA 7, p. 11)

Contents

Introduction / Meister Eckhart / Friendship with God / Cardinal Nicolaus von Kues / Agrippa von Nettesheim and Theophrastus Paracelsus / Valentin Weigel and Jacob Böhme / Giordano Bruno and Angelus Silesius / Conclusion

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Eleven European Mystics. Translated by Karl E. Zimmer. Rudolf Steiner Publications 1960 rsarchive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age. Translated by Karl E. Zimmer. SteinerBooks 1980, CW 7, ISBN 0-8334-0758-8 rsarchive.org

German

• Rudolf Steiner: Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung, GA 7 (1990), ISBN 3-7274-0070-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Schriften. Kritische Ausgabe (SKA). Band 5: Schriften über Mystik, Mysterienwesen und Religionsgeschichte
  Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung – Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Christian Clement. Frommann-Holzboog Verlag, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-7728-2635-1

Original editions

• Ausgabe 1901
• Ausgabe 1921

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