Anthroposophy - a Fragment is an uncompleted text of 1910 which was found among Rudolf Steiner’s unpublished works, in the form of a hand­written manuscript and as printed sheets, corrected by the author. In these writings, Steiner takes the first steps in this work toward developing a truly spiritual psychology. Avoiding abstract descriptions and schematic knowledge, he demonstrates the phenomenological approach to the human being as a sense organ, to the life processes, the I-experience, the human form, and the relationship to the higher spiritual worlds.

This is an essential work for those who feel the importance of developing cognitively towards a greater understanding of the human being.

Occult Science - An Outline by Rudolf Steiner is the most fundamental and comprehensive of his written works on Anthroposophy. Written in 1909 when he was still head of the German Section of the Theosophical Society, it provided for the Theosophists and later the Anthroposophical movement, the broadest framework of occult knowledge that the movement had yet seen. Occult Science is an expansive body of knowledge which documents the evolution of mankind, the kingdoms of nature and the world as viewed from a purely spiritual standpoint - that is as derived from spiritual causative agents.

Previously published as: Occult Science - an Outline, this newly translated edition of Rudolf Steiner's fundamental work provides an inexhaustible source of insight into human and cosmic history, and future destiny.

It also includes detailed methods and exercises for the development of the higher cognitive and perceptual faculties that are necessary for acquiring such knowledge. (See also How to Know Higher Worlds for further information on these and other developmental exercises.)

Theosophy is a key work for anyone seeking to know the fundamentals of spiritual reality as described by Rudolf Steiner.

In this foundational work, Rudolf Steiner describes the human being in terms of his various physical and spiritual principles, leading the reader carefully from the obvious physical component and successively bringing to view each of the more subtle members and their particular characteristics. He places the human complex within the stream of time, detailing the course of development of the various members in the distant past, those which are especially being elaborated in our present, and those which will only come to fruition in the distant future.

Theosophy is an essential work which should be studied before exploring more advanced subject matter.

Rudolf Steiner Press
Written 1904, GA9
Trans: M. Cotterell and A.P. Shepherd
164pp; paperback
ISBN: 0-88010-373-6