Steiner, Reincarnation and Karma.

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The immortality of the soul and its repeated earthly births are not new ideas in Western thought. They are implicit in the Pythagorean and Platonic traditions, as well as in certain branches of esoteric Judaism and the Kabbalah. But it was not until the beginning of this century that the West received a detailed, modern, evolutionary philosophy of human life, based on the reality of reincarnation and karma. This turning point came when Rudolf Steiner began to make public the results of his scientific spiritual research. He considered the revelation of reincarnation and karma to be one of the most important tasks of his life. The primary purpose of this volume is to help readers meet the challenge of spiritual research in the field of individual evolution of the soul and spirit in the context of cultural and universal evolution. Such a study can be extremely revealing and provide spiritual understanding in an age of increasing intellectual confusion and spiritual poverty. The notion of reincarnation and karma is generally associated in most minds with the spiritual traditions of the East, notably Hinduism and Buddhism. René Querido's in-depth 60-page introduction, however, places these concepts in the context of Western spiritual development and esoteric tradition, giving us a panoramic view of how these ideas have developed over the centuries in the West.