Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Steiner Rudolf
Title : An outline of esoteric science
Year : 1925

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Introduction. by Clopper Almon. We and the world around us evolve. This evolution is nowhere more marked than in our own consciousness. When we try to enter into the religious texts of the ancient Egyptians, we have to admit that they are total enigmas to us. Our science would almost certainly be equally incomprehensible to them. They were, for example, obvious masters of what, in physics today, we call force; however, they used it in a completely intuitive way, without any concept of it. They may well have had visions of force, but no concept. Concepts appear first with the Greeks, and even then they seem to have reached only into things of the intellect, logic, geometry, and philosophy only with the arrival of the scientific revolution. A new power seemed to unfold in us. Suddenly we could comprehend that the same force that makes the apple fall also holds the moon in orbit. The excitement of discovering that new inner capacity swept all before it. What could be understood with this new capacity was Science with a capital S; what could not was considered faith, religion, or superstition, according to one’s point of view. Initially, Science consisted of physics and astronomy. Gradually, new domains were conquered; chemistry, geology, biology, economics, and psychology led to a whole new way of viewing the world. ...