Spiritual researcher
A spiritual researcher or spiritual scientist in the modern Rosicrucian sense is an initiate who must have certain clairvoyant abilities in order to be able to perceive the spiritual world independently and who also has the corresponding inspiration to be able to correctly interpret what is perceived spiritually. Higher spiritual truths, such as the retrospection into earlier earthly lives of individual people, are only accessible to intuition. In addition, the spiritual researcher must also have the necessary intellectual abilities to be able to present his research results in a scientifically clear form that is appropriate for our present age of consciousness soul.
Rudolf Steiner entwickelte ab 1900 die Anthroposophie als Wissenschaft vom Geistigen, ausgehend von der Beobachtung des Denkens nach naturwissenschaftlicher Methode, die er schon in seiner 1894 erschienen «Philosophie der Freiheit» ausführlich dargestellt und in deren zweitem Teil einen auf das selbstbewusste freie Ich gestützten ethischen Individualismus begründet hatte.
