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Spiritual Science – a path for today

Opening up Spiritual Scientific Method is close to my heart. I feel very sure it’s so strong and simple as to be the Path – the Way – that is open and fruitful and good for us today. Yet the first draft of my article came out totally unlike what I expected or wanted. It was doing its own thing. It’s the second time this has happened here: my very first post was supposed to be Hello Friends but what emerged was clearly Hello – Anthroposophical – Friends. I could simply rename it and write another Hello Friends. But this time it was more perplexing.

With Steiner And Beyond

Arriving at pictures of important “unknown” reincarnations of Steiner and of close associates; claiming we must change his Star Ages dating; and claiming that Spiritual Science needs to take these on and work with them, if it is to have a future, are three extraordinary claims to make.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, said Carl Sagan. Now Rudolf Steiner gave us precisely this, with his very first books that describe the faculties of spiritual perception that lie dormant in us all. Knowledge of Higher Worlds and Philosophy of Freedom describe how to awaken those faculties safely and ethically, and how the spiritual essence of Scientific Method is valid, even essential in this. Steiner’s method yields, in time, the ability to spot the extra-ordinary evidence needed to validate or query his subsequent extraordinary claims. My own claims are nothing more than the result of many tiny steps of awakening experienced over many years: that way they do not seem outrageous at all, they seem natural and, eventually, self-evident.

Francis Bacon & Rudolf Steiner

It was when I met Peter Dawkins in 1981, at Sir George Trevelyan’s Round Table Conference, that I first encountered a serious question-mark over Rudolf Steiner’s accuracy.

I had been invited to this very select spiritual gathering on the strength of the piece I wrote, The Apocalyptic Vision: Ecological Breakdown and Spiritual Breakthrough. There I met Peter Dawkins who told me he ran the the Francis Bacon Research Trust. I liked him: quietly well-spoken, clearly well-educated, and one always felt in the presence of a great courtesy, that never advertises itself, but makes one feel comfortable.

Steiner’s Spirit Glimpsed

Revelations around Steiner, Spiritual Science, more past lives of his, other lives of his close co-workers, and the Great Star Ages, built up for me inch by inch, unremittingly, over the years. I believe that it is now time to tell a good part of the story.

I get the impression that Steiner, naturally clairvoyant, sensed from early on that his significant meetings all had past-life connections. Mostly he could say nothing at that time. He had to wait until he was 40 until he could speak openly about his esoteric perceptions at all.

Today things have changed, and perception has opened up for many people, including myself – see Reincarnation Within Christianity. Several past incarnations of Steiner have come to me, with confirmation after confirmation: all lives Steiner simply could not have talked about in that lifetime, even if he’d known. The revelations would have blinded people and burned out the awakening Steiner sought to develop gently, slowly, hands-on. Yet now I believe we need the knowledge, to come to terms with the subtle but powerful brilliance from Steiner that students of Anthroposophy know all too well, to challenge some of Steiner’s Spiritual Scientific conclusions, and to open it up further, in line with his principles, in ways that are logical and comfortable yet run deep, as Steiner himself did, and as our times call for.