Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz
Rudolf Steiner spoke often of the relationship of Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science to Rosicrucianism, but he spoke less of the being of Christian Rosenkreutz himself. As he said, “To speak of Christian Rosenkreutz presumes a profound trust in the mysteries of the life of the spirit—a trust or faith not in the person of Christian Rosenkreutz, but in the mysteries of spiritual life.”
For Steiner, Christian Rosenkreutz was active in at least three ways. First, as one of the “great leaders of humanity,” he worked to bring esoteric spirituality into the modern world and to lead it into the future. Second, as “the greatest teacher of Christianity” he worked to bring to humanity true “heart knowledge” of Christ through the continued unveiling of the Mystery of Golgotha in the etheric. Third, as a concrete, particular individual being, Steiner had a living, actual, personal relationship with him. As such, because of our failure to understand, Steiner called him “a noble martyr...who, through his way of working, endured, and will in future endure, more than any other person. I say ‘person,’ for the suffering of Christ was the suffering of a god."
In the first part of this inspiring book—a work of devotion both to Rudolf Steiner and to Christian Rosenkreutz—Peter Selg, as “The Great Servant of Christ Jesus,” gives a detailed, chronological, and fascinating account of Steiner’s portrayal and, as much as possible, experiences of Christian Rosenkreutz. He shows how Steiner had essentially two teachers: the Master Jesus (Zoroaster) and Christian Rosenkreutz. Moreover, Selg shows how these two, with Rudolf Steiner, unfolded spiritual science for our time. In the second part, he shows how all this culminates, astonishingly and miraculously, in the Michael School as it manifested in the First Class.
The book concludes with an appendix containing the text of the original (1614) Fama, or “Announcement of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood.”
Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz is a translation from German of Rudolf Steiner und Christian Rosenkreutz, 3rd edition. (Verlag des Ita Wegman Instituts, 2010).
178 pages.
