About this site
Welcome to the anthroposophy.eu or freemancreator.org website.
This site is a platform for sharing information and support materials for the integrated study for spiritual science.
For practical useage tips, see How to use this site.
What?
Contents and intended use
This site is a study tool and offers a densely written reference of some 500 wiki topic pages and nearly a thousand Schemas, and many thousands of references to extensive literature and sources of spiritual science.
Rather than a proliferation of small topics over thousands of pages, the site integrates information from thousands of sources and provides all the foundations required for a deep study of spiritual science through a relatively limited number of topic pages with condensed information. For this, the pages have to be studied in their mutual interrelationships.
Regarding the Schemas: each Schema depicts an idea. Some are illustrations, but many contain a synthesis of information from various scattered lectures by Rudolf Steiner and other sources of spiritual science. The study Schemas are building blocks to support you in building your own mental representation as you assimilate all that is offered so it is integrated in your mind, rising above the limits of sequential language and intellectual thought forms.
Sources
Whereas this site integrates information from many sources, it centers on the work of four adepts of the white lodge, all western 20th century teachers: Rudolf Steiner, Beinsa Douno, Franz Bardon, and Daskalos. Of these, Steiner's work is the largest body of knowledge for intellectual study, Bardon's work, condensed in three books, is the most advanced for the experiential path of initiation towards adepthood.
Other sources include the Bible, the work of Helena Blavatsky and earlier theosophists like Jacob Boehme, initiates such as Rawn Clark, eastern teachers such as Krishnamurti and Sri M.
Schema FMC00.609: shows four 20th century western teachers of humanity, from left to right: Rudolf Steiner, Beinsa Douno, Franz Bardon, Daskalos.
Schema FMC00.609A: depicts contemporary western teachers of humanity of end 19th to end 20th century; from left to right: Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Beinsa Douno, Franz Bardon, Daskalos. Pictures at younger age, see also Schema FMC00.609B.
Schema FMC00.609B: shows four 20th century western teachers, from left to right:
depicts contemporary western teachers of humanity of end 19th to end 20th century; from left to right: Helena Blavatsky, Rudolf Steiner, Beinsa Douno, Franz Bardon, Daskalos. Pictures at later age, see also Schema FMC00.609A.
Why?
Goal
The intention of this site is to be a front-end portal to the Free Man Creator project and provide more details about this initiative to interested parties. The FMC project consists of integrated digital materials on spiritual science in english, over 15000 pages, hundreds of tables and thousands of illustrations and schematics. This MediaWiki front end is however not to a full-fledged content management system for the FMC project.
What matters is not quantity but quality of insightful information that can be shared so it is useful for earnest students of spiritual science. This is ultimately the aim of the initiative. The goal is to offer didactic supportive materials in a modern contemporary way. With the humble ambition of being or becoming a reference through the quality, depth and breadth of coverage.
Whereas the main motivation is that this may be useful to, and may help, other students .. this does not mean it can replace 'doing the actual soul work', as explained on Tools and practical site info#About the study process and working spiritual science.
Therefore this site is not intended to present partial snippets of fastfood info for quick digestion (as we find in social media or blogs) .. but rather quite the opposite. The main point remains to engage one's soul and spirit into a process of in-depth study through concentration and contemplation, fed with your feelings, imagination and the will-fire inside of you.
For the student of spiritual science and especially anthroposophy, the site offers:
- Integration: of Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA) across the fragmentated publishing, with consistent taxonomy, indexing and cross referencing. Also integration with theosophy and other Sources of spiritual science.
- Enrichment: with modern media: blackboard drawings, illustrations of direct references made, contemporary best illustrations of principles, synthetic tables (or 'tabular summaries'), graphical mindmaps, enriching illustrations and 'evocation images'. See FMC schemas
- Extension: with links and references to other sources of anthroposophists after and besides Rudolf Steiner's work, and contemporary developments, see for example the 'References and further reading' section on each topic page, and SoSoG
.
See also: Problem statement regarding the study of spiritual science
Philosophy
Universities today don't teach physics with the original manuscripts by Newton or Maxwell. The learnings of many generations over centuries are summarized into the foundations of physics in say three books like Feynman's famous Lectures on Physics. That's a fact, not a judgement.
The generation born after the year 2000 grows up in a world of free flow of information, with internet everywhere due to mobile connectivity, etc. These things have been developing for 50 years, since the first PCs, then internet, wireless networks, and so on .. but now they are everywhere and the result is that it has changed the attitude of people with regards to information and learning. That's a fact again, not a judgement.
How was it a century ago, say the time of Rudolf Steiner? Here's a anecdote mailed to me:
"When a few people (forgot the names) visited a library with all the old books from 16th – 19 th century, someone exclaimed: "Should we read all this? How on earth can we do that?" and Rudolf Steiner replied: "You don't have to read all that, that is already in your blood, in your astralis, no need to read it all." So perhaps some of anthroposophy and ideas are also already in our blood. Perhaps it's too early for that, but then again time is passing very fast. Sometimes it seems some young people immediately understand all the anthro ideas where the old had to think and work hard."
This is explained further in the lecture references on Communicating over spiritual science
The human brain is not a computer to store GA lecture references, and even a structured system built with years of diligent discipline in the end becomes large and complex and not simple enough to share. This site is intended as a modern and accessible support system for learning. All to help you focus on your soul work.
Each topic page provides:
- key points, and overview of multiple perspectives characteristic and required for the study of spiritual science ('Aspects'). these provide different perspectives to any subject area covered on a topic page. Aspects are clustered in logical groups in outline mode, with links to other topic pages. The statements provide densely written summaries but always with references to the full lecture extracts and references.
- reference source extracts for study, both 'Lecture coverage and references' and 'Further reading and references' sections for secondary literature
- diagrams: the 'Illustrations' section shows Schemas relevant to the topic, see FMC study schemas and FMC schemas
- a discussion page with numbered notes that can be referenced and further expanded following site interaction and further study. This is linked to Q&A and Discussion pages where topics are elaborated, see Questions and Answers and Discussion pages.
- links to explore dependencies and navigate the contents of the site freely
What you find on this site can be used for soul work: take it into deep thought, contemplate, live the questions, fill them with your heart, and you will write and weave into the akasha .. where your thinking feeling willing will help develop the seeds for future worlds and provide help for the souls between death and a new birth. Focusing on the soul work is the most important thing for us to do as part of our study.
See more about this in Notes on the study process and Study process and developing imaginations.
Notes:
- links and aspects are a way that this site implements the 'associative meaning links' or 'context jumps' that are characteristic of Rudolf Steiner's lectures. The site is full of examples, but here are a few as illustrative pointers:
- link between language of Greek mythology, the language of alchemy in middle ages (and earlier atavistic stages of clairvoyance)
Logo
The logo in the left upper corner is based on an old cover of volume GA201 'Man Hieroglyph of the Universe'. The name (and Meaning of) Free Man Creator to denote that Man is central in creation and has now been put free to co-create the future.
This links to the Philosophy of Freedom as well as to the teachings of reincarnation and karma, and the responsibility of each human being in thoughts, feelings and actions .. through which we contribute to the seeds of future words.
This also links directly to initiation and Initiation exercises: if you want to improve the world, start working on yourself.
