Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead. Steiner gained initial re
Steiner c. 1905
Rudolf Steiner, graduation photo from secondary school
Rudolf Steiner as 21-year-old student (1882)
Rudolf Steiner around 1891–92, etching by Otto Fröhlich
Anthroposophy is a spiritual new religious movement that was founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehen
Rudolf Steiner
…critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. 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 (Christian) Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are…
Second Goetheanum, seat of the Anthroposophical Society
Ignaz Paul Vitalis Troxler
The first Goetheanum, designed by Steiner in 1920, Dornach, Switzerland