Rudolf steiner biography and timeline covers
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Reincarnation
Reincarnation, re-embodiment, rebirth or palingenesis (composed of Greek:&#;πάλινpálin "again" and γένεσιςgénesis "generation, birth") means that man as an individual spiritual being descends several times in the course of its development to physical forms of existence, between which there is a purely spiritual existence. The destiny (Sanskrit:&#;Karma) in later earthly incarnations is essentially determined by the deeds in earlier earthly lives. According to the anthroposophical view, it is the immortal individual spirit, the I of man, that reincarnates and, apart from exceptional cases[1], not the largely perishable soul, which after death scatters to an imperishable remnant in the general astral world and has to be rebuilt anew and with different qualities for the next earthly incarnation. The personal immortality - the consciousness of the personality that lasts beyond death - was only attained by man through the consciousness soul, insofar
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Rudolf Steiner
Austrian esotericist (–)
For other people named Rudolf Steiner, see Rudolf Steiner (disambiguation).
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February [1] – 30 March ) was an Austrianoccultist,social reformer, architect, esotericist,[11][12] and claimed clairvoyant.[13][14] Steiner gained första recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom.[15] At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by ChristianGnosticism[i] or neognosticism.[17][18][19] Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific.[20] He was also prone to pseudohistory.[21]
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synt
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Biography work is a retrospective process that consists in looking at one's life and how it has unfolded on various fronts, and trying to discern meaning and patterns into it. This implies taking a step back and contemplating the highs and lows that one has lived, to gain a deeper understanding of one's life lessons and journey.
FMC depicts Life Chart diagram diagram by George O'Neill based on Steiner's lecture of GA (by Florin Lowndes, see publication under references for an excellent book). This diagram is often used and appears in many books for personal biography work.
Schema FMC depicts a simple metaphoric image for the main karmic patterns, challenges and debts in one's life or incarnation.
On the upper left is represented the accounting 'balance sheet' of karmic unbalances as a result of many previous lives, the 'book of lives' (part of Man's higher spiritual self or Individuality), also called 'causal body' in theosophy. In the accounting image, each life delivers l