Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

At the turn of the 20th century, as materialism was consolidating its grip on Western intellectual life and the scientific worldview was being proclaimed the only legitimate lens through which to understand reality, a remarkable Austrian thinker named Rudolf Steiner was quietly building one of the most comprehensive, most demanding, and most practically fruitful alternative worldviews in modern history. Steiner (1861–1925) was a polymath of extraordinary range: he was a respected Goethe scholar, a philosopher with an original epistemology, a founder of educational and agricultural movements that continue today in thousands of schools and farms worldwide, an architect, a sculptor, a playwright, a movement artist — and, beginning in his 40s, a self-described spiritual researcher who claimed to access, through cultivated inner perception, dimensions of reality invisible to ordinary sense-based knowledge. He called his work Anthroposophy — from the Greek anthropos (human being) and so...