Mystics at the Dawn of the Modern Age by Rudolf Steiner (hardcover)

Written in 1901, based on lectures in 1900 at the Theosophical Library, Berlin (CW 7)

The mystics Steiner writes about in this book were early giants in the modern art of illumined self-knowledge. Their ways of seeing the world, God, and themselves foreshadowed all that we practice today in the best of meditation, both East and West. Here, you can read about their essential passion for unity, their practice of intensification of perception, and their ever-fresh insights into the process of knowing itself.

Rudolf Steiner immerses us in the evolving stream of these eleven mystics who appeared in central Europe from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. They managed to resolve the conflict between inner perceptions and the new seeds of modern science, and human individuality. Based on the lives of those mystics and on his own spiritual insight, Steiner shows how their ideas can illuminate and preserve our true human nature today.

This 192-page Chadwick Library trade hardcover edition (ISBN 9780996921145) presents Rudolf Steiner's work in a revised English translation. Named for horticulturist Alan Chadwick, the 750-copy trade edition has a leather spine, cloth sides, and a light slipcase.

This volume is a translation from German of Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung (GA 7), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach, 1993. A different translation is titled Mystics after Modernism Discovering the Seeds of a New Science in the Renaissance (Anthroposophic Press, 2000)