{"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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It is the movement deriving from the work of the Austrian philosopher, scientist and seer, Rudolf Steiner. His life spanned the second half of the last century and the first quarter of this. His genius far transcended his age and fate, and his distinction, to be a scientist among artists and an artist among scientists, a universal genius in an age of specialists, a spiritual investigator among the still triumphant explorers of the physical world. Few even know that Steiner's work in the educational field has led to the foundation of schools in all parts of the world. Today there are over 350 independent Waldorf Schools offering programs K through 12throughout the world. In Germany the schools are so popular that children are enrolled at birth to insure a place in their first grade class. 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