Theosophy of the Rosicrucian
By: A Course of Fourteen lectures by Rudolf Steiner: given between the 22nd of May and the 6th of June 1907, at Munich. GA0099
Contributors: Translated by M. Cotterell and D. S. Osmond from shorthand reports unrevised by the lecturer. The volume in the Complete Centenary Edition of the works of Rudolf Steiner in the original German in which the text of this lecture-course is contained, is entitled: Die Theosophie des Rosenkreuzers (No. 99 in the Bibliographical Survey, 1961)
Publisher: Rudolph Steiner Pr; Steiner Press, Rudolf
Published: June 1981
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 168
ISBN-13: 9780854404018
Subjects: Mind, body, spirit: disciplines & techniques
First sentence: THE TITLE of this course of lectures has been announced as “Theosophy according to the Rosicrucian Method.” By this is meant the wisdom that is primeval, yet ever new, expressed in a form suitable for the present age.
Description: A NOTE ON THE TITLE 

AT first glance the title of this book may be somewhat misleading for the British reader. It may suggest to him associations with Anglo-Indian Theosophy and the Theosophical Society founded by H. P. Blavatsky. 

Rudolf Steiner, however, uses the term independently and with different and much wider connotation. In earlier centuries, particularly in Central Europe, “Theosophy” was a recognised section of Philosophy and even of Theology. Jacob Boehme was known as the great “theosopher”. In English the term goes back to the seventeenth century. 

Ultimately it leads us back to St. Paul who says (I Cor. ii, 6-7): “Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world ... But we speak the wisdom of God (Greek ‘Theosophia’) in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the world unto our glory.” 

All “theosophy” implies a knowledge of the spiritual world, and such knowledge has been attained in different ways at different epochs of man's history. The Rosicrucian way referred to in the title is the way suited to modern man in this age of world knowledge and individual freedom.
Notes: In Britain this is the standard introduction to the works of Rudolf Steiner.
Table of contents: label: I
title: The New Form Of Wisdom; label: II
title: The Nine-fold Constitution Of Man; label: III
title: The Elemental World And The Heaven World. Waking Life, Sleep And Death.; label: IV
title: The Descent To A New Birth; label: V
title: Man's Communal Life Between Death And A New Birth. Birth Into The Physical World; label: VI
title: The Law Of Destiny; label: VII
title: The Technique Of Karma; label: VIII
title: Human Consciousness In The Seven Planetary Conditions; label: IX
title: Planetary Evolution. I; label: X
title: Planetary Evolution. II; label: XI
title: The Evolution Of Mankind On The Earth. I; label: XII
title: The Evolution Of Mankind On The Earth. II; label: XIII
title: The Future Of Man; label: XIV
title: The Nature Of Initiation