{"title":"English Books   Other Authors","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"sebastian-niklaus-what-is-hermeticism","title":"Sebastian Niklaus   What is Hermeticism?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA study of the Christian Hermeticism of Valentin Tomberg in the light of Rudolf Steiner's school of Initiation Science\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents:    \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI.   The living stream of Hermetic tradition\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eII.  The Arcana as mediator to the Hermetic stream\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003eIII. The experience of conscious life\u003cbr\u003e        \u003cbr\u003ePostscript: The Rose-Cross Method\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat are the steps of the path, in concrete terms? The general principle of development is described at the end of the IV. Arca-num “The Emperor”. In order to become “a human being in the true sense” and an image and likeness of God, the lower in man’s nature needs to be restrained, so that his true being can blossom forth:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“But if they (i.e. human beings) are to become, again, what they are in their essential nature they must undergo the work-ing of sublimation. This process is crucifixion for what in them is lower, and is at the same time a blossoming forth of what is their true being. Cross and Rose, the Rose-Cross is the symbol for this process of the realization of the true human being.”\u003cbr\u003e(VT: Meditations on the TARO, Letter on IV. Arcanum)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe general principle of development is, therefore, the principle of the Rose-Cross: The black cross from whose central point bloom seven roses. The image has the following meaning: The lower is to be restrained or extinguished, so that the purified blood of the human being can flower in such a way that the soul can strive towards the spirit as chastely as a flower strives towards the sun (seven roses in bloom). Blood that has been purified in this way will be able to receive and be a bearer of the essential being of man. Rudolf Steiner gave this exercise to many of his personal pupils, as something to accompany them on their path, together with the exercises that were designed for each one individually (cf. RSt: GA 267, p. 165-215 or 307-423).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEnglish\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 pages \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBooklet\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. 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How can one gain access to the work of Hieronymus Bosch? – Historical or biographical connections may provide indications of Bosch’s standpoint, but wherever the key to Bosch may lie, a beholder will only be able to find it if the inner place is sought from which the motifs were inspired. The solution given, in this and subsequent volumes, to the riddle of the “Garden of Heavenly Joys” (also known under the name “Garden of Delights”) arises from immediate contact with the reality out of which Bosch created his works. The method used consists in posing a question to this reality with reference to the details depicted by Bosch, and drawing together the results. It becomes clear that the background of the motifs is not to be seen as creations of a purely subjective origin, but is generally understandable and accessible to all, insofar as the attempt is made to discover the right inner standpoint. Catharina Barker bases her account on the published research of Wertheim Aymès and the investigations of Willi Seiß. There emerges a wealth of details of a hermetic knowledge of immeasurable depth, which Hieronymus Bosch has translated into a picture language of ‘real-imaginations’. Thus, Bosch is not simply depicting his visions; he translates them into a living symbolism which he himself has developed for his works with his artistic-imaginative creative powers. The attentive beholder will not fail to appreciate the living quality of these motifs. The figures and scenes maintain the connection with their source and live on, in a real sense, in the beholder. 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