Christianity As Mystical Fact 3/12: Rudolf Steiner - Plato's dialogues and wisdom of the mysteries

Jeff and I continue on our voyage of discovery into Rudolf Steiner's transformational book "Christianity As Mystical Fact: And the Mysteries of Antiquity". We look at the dialogues of Plato and the esoteric wisdom that reveals itself when understood in the light of spiritual research.
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During the fall and winter of 1901-02, Steiner gave a series of lectures called “Christianity as Mystical Fact” to members of the Theosophical Society. The lectures were rewritten and issued as a book later that year. They mark a watershed in the development of Western esotericism. Steiner wrote of the idea behind his book:
“The title Christianity as Mystical Fact was one I gave to this work eight years ago, when I gathered together the content of lectures given in 1902. It was meant to indicate the special approach adopted in the book. Its theme is not just the mystical side of Christianity in a historical presentation. It was meant to show, from the standpoint of a mystical awareness, how Christianity came into being.
“Behind this was the idea that spiritual happenings were factors in the emergence of Christianity, which could only be observed from such a point of view. It is for the book itself to demonstrate that, by ‘mystical,’ I do not in any way imply a vague intuition rather than strict scientific argument. In many circles, mysticism is understood as just that, and therefore it is distinguished from the concerns of all ‘genuine’ science.
“In this book, however, I use the term to mean a ‘presentation of spiritual reality’―a reality accessible only to a knowledge drawn from the sources of spiritual life itself. Anyone who denies the possibility of such knowledge in principle will find its contents hard to comprehend; any reader who accepts the idea that mysticism may coexist with the clarity of the natural sciences, may acknowledge that the mystical aspect of Christianity must be described mystically.”
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[@amandaaverill3038]

Really wonderful to hear and read along ❤

[@alxartzen]

Nature is the one and only teacher and yes thought is an abstraction out of the whole, this is why all knowledge comes in bits, fragments, pieces that must then be put together like a puzzle...Each piece of the puzzle or thought is an abstraction that must be put together like a painting or statue or home that has a bed room, bathroom, kitchen

[@alxartzen]

Revealing abstractually one piece every moment, like it's happening piece by piece in your conversation, abstractually, limited and never whole, wholeness is beyond all human conversation, thought which are all limited, abstract

[@alxartzen]

Hello Mr Jeff my view is that Christianity ( Catholic & protestant) Judaism, Islam are all inventions of thought there may be principles taken from nature that are real, like the principle that one reaps what one sows or the law or principle of reciprocity...Even words are inventions, which includes the word love.. No-thing or word would have meaning if it were not for our physical senses, mainly pain, like feeling the heat from fire or the cold.

[@jeffbarney3584]

yes I know