Project Gutenberg 2025-04-30 Public domain in the USA. 363 Steiner, Rudolf 1861 1925 Steiner, Rudolph Gysi, Max 1874 1946 Gysi, Max F. Keightley, Bertram 1860 1944 11029053 Mystics of the Renaissance and their relation to modern thought, including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others $aNew York :$bG.P. Putnam's Sons, $c1911. Richard Illner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Mystics of the Renaissance and their relation to modern thought, including…" by Rudolf Steiner is a historical and philosophical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the lives and teachings of significant mystic thinkers from the Renaissance such as Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and Giordano Bruno, with an emphasis on their influence on and connections to modern intellectual currents. Its central topic is how mystical insight into self-knowledge and the spiritual rebirth of the individual shapes both religious experience and philosophical understanding, bridging medieval belief systems and modern conceptions of the self and freedom. Readers interested in the intersections of spirituality, philosophy, and history will find this a thoughtful analysis of mysticism’s enduring relevance. The opening of the book features a foreword in which Steiner situates his exploration within his personal intellectual development, describing the book as both a culmination and a clarification of years of work on the nature of mysticism and its critics. He acknowledges criticisms of his eclectic intellectual stance, positioning himself as someone who unites scientific rationality with genuine spiritual searching. The introduction then delves into the essence of self-knowledge, drawing on classical philosophical aphorisms such as "Know Thyself" and connecting them with the experiences of various mystics. Steiner distinguishes between mere sense-perception and the deeper, transformative inner vision that mystics report, arguing that this "rebirth" in spirit grants access to universal truths beyond the reach of ordinary logic or science. As the narrative proceeds into his discussion of Meister Eckhart and successors like Tauler, Steiner highlights how these figures express the dissolution of the isolated self in favor of a union with the divine, and how such spiritual awakening underlies true freedom and creativity. This opening portion sets the stage for a nuanced investigation of mysticism’s role in individual transformation and cultural evolution. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/mysticsofrenais00stei/ 20241107093233steiner 1911 US Reading ease score: 63.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Mysticism BV Text Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750) Category: Philosophy & Ethics Category: Religion/Spirituality 286222 2025-06-30T05:57:39.013631 text/html 259861 2025-04-30T16:30:54 text/html 488583 2025-06-30T05:57:43.964645 application/epub+zip 485333 2025-06-30T05:57:40.445637 application/epub+zip 290332 2025-06-30T05:57:39.608645 application/epub+zip 1101223 2025-06-30T05:57:46.658617 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1075281 2025-06-30T05:57:43.352641 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 257277 2025-06-30T05:57:38.617638 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 236826 2025-04-30T16:30:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18182 2025-06-30T05:57:46.804590 application/rdf+xml 26004 2025-06-30T05:57:39.907641 image/jpeg 3693 2025-06-30T05:57:39.755628 image/jpeg 1006790 2025-06-30T05:57:39.045645 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog de.wikipedia en.wikipedia en.wikipedia