9780880104418-0880104414-Love & Its Meaning in the World

Love & Its Meaning in the World

ISBN-13: 9780880104418
ISBN-10: 0880104414
Edition: First Edition
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Format: Paperback 208 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780880104418
ISBN-10: 0880104414
Edition: First Edition
Author: Rudolf Steiner
Publication date: 1998
Publisher: SteinerBooks
Format: Paperback 208 pages

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Love & Its Meaning in the World (ISBN-13: 9780880104418 and ISBN-10: 0880104414), written by authors Rudolf Steiner, was published by SteinerBooks in 1998. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Theosophy (New Age & Spirituality) books. You can easily purchase or rent Love & Its Meaning in the World (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Theosophy books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Although Steiner did not often speak or write about love explicitly, love is at the very heart of his whole body of work and the foundation of his hopes for humankind and the Earth. Steiner teaches that, without love, nothing is possible; with love, however, we can do everything. Love is always "love of the not-yet." To love is to create; it is to selflessly enter the current of time that flows toward us from the future.

Reality, true knowledge of reality, is impossible without love. Only through love can we truly know as we are know, can we encounter the world and its beings in a living way. Without love, knowledge becomes manipulation, domination, control; the world becomes a space of dead things. But, when we know through love, we enter into a pattern of dynamic, potentially redemptive relations and the world becomes a living world of beings working for the good.

This collection gathers all of Rudolf Steiner’s main lectures and writings related to love. From earthly love to the nature and function of spiritual love, these pieces are essential reading for anyone concerned with the future of humanity and the Earth.

Love and Its Meaning in the World is essential reading for anyone who'd like to gain a deeper understanding of our true mission as human beings and the purpose of evolution on Earth.

Chapters include:

  • "The Division of the Sexes"
  • "Lucifer and Christ"
  • "The Mission of Reverence"
  • "The Buddha's Teaching of Compassion and Love"
  • "Faith, Love, and Hope"
  • "Love & Its Meaning in the World"
  • "'I'-Feeling, the Soul's Capacity to Love, and Their Relationship to the Elemental World"


Love mediated by the senses is the wellspring of creative power, of what is coming into being. Without sense-born love, nothing material would exist in the world; without spiritual love, nothing spiritual can arise in evolution. When we practice love, cultivate love, creative forces pour into the world....

For human beings, love is the most important fruit of experience in the sensory world. Once we really understand the nature of love, or compassion, we will find that love is the way spirit expresses its truth in the world of the senses....

"We may even say that, in love, the spiritual world awakens in the physical. The more truly a soul inhabits the spiritual worlds, the more it experiences lovelessness and lack of compassion as a denial of spirit itself." ―Rudolf Steiner
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