Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy (from Greek ἄνθρωπος ánthropos 'man' and σοφία sophίa 'wisdom') is a "path of knowledge" founded by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), "which wants to lead the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe"[1] and in this sense wants to expand the "consciousness of his humanity" [2]. Starting from a deepened knowledge of man based on spiritual experience, anthroposophy opens a new, fully conscious thought-clear and scientifically exact access to the objective spiritual world, which methodically orients itself to natural science and complements and expands its findings, corresponding to the demands of our time.
"By anthroposophy I understand a scientific investigation of the spiritual world which sees through the one-sidedness of a mere knowledge of nature as well as that of ordinary mysticism, and which, before it makes the attempt to penetrate into the supersensible world, first develops in the discerning soul those forces not yet active in ordinary consciousness and in ordinary science which make such a penetration possible."[3]
