Outline of Occult Science

Occult Science is Rudolf Steiner's term for the ancient Way of Initiation, and in this book he shows that an objective description of the spiritual experience, (one quite as balanced as the findings of external science), is both possible and attainable. Material scientists pour scorn on the idea of other spiritual worlds, but it is unreasonable to expect that instruments of gross matter will ever detect the highly attenuated spiritual dimensions. Occult scientists consider the human body is the best, perhaps the only, instrument capable to reaching these dimensions, and while all such detection must perforce be subjective, it is no means non-objective. Regarded by many as Steiner's masterpiece, 'An Outline of Occult Science' is a book with many levels of meaning, one that will repay re-reading on a regular basis.

Stiinta oculta este termenul lui Rudolf Steiner pentru vechea cale de initiere si, in aceasta carte, arata ca o descriere obiectiva a experientei spirituale (una la fel de echilibrata ca descoperirile stiintei externe), este posibila si realizabila. Oamenii de stiinta materiala varsa dispret asupra ideii altor lumi spirituale, dar nu este rezonabil sa ne asteptam ca instrumentele de materie bruta sa detecteze vreodata dimensiunile spirituale extrem de atenuate.