{"title":"Anthroposophy","description":"\u003ch2 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrowse anthroposophical books by authors other than Rudolf Steiner.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. It arises in man as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be justified only inasmuch as it can satisfy this inner need.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnthroposophy communicates knowledge that is gained in a spiritual way. Yet it only does so because everyday life, and the science founded on sense-perception and intellectual activity, lead to a barrier along life's way — a limit where the life of the soul in man would die if it could go no farther. Everyday life and science do not lead to this limit in such a way as to compel man to stop short at it. 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