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The Bodhisattva Question: Krishnamurti, Rudolf Steiner, Valentin Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth-Century Master
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About The Bodhisattva Question: Krishnamurti, Rudolf
Product Description According to Eastern tradition, the twelve sublime beings known as bodhisattvas are the great teachers of humanity. One after another, they descend into earthly incarnation until they fulfil their earthly missions. At that point, they rise to buddahood and are no longer obliged to return in a physical form. However, before bodhisattvas becomes a buddhas, they announce the name of their successors. According to Rudolf Steiner, the future Maitreya Buddha―or the “Bringer of Good,” as his predecessor named him―incarnated in a human body in the twentieth century. Presuming this to be so, then who was this person? Theosophists believed they had discovered the bodhisattva in an Indian boy named Krishnamurti, who did indeed grow up to become a teacher of some magnitude. Adolf Arenson and Elisabeth Vreede, both students of Steiner, made independent examinations of this question in relation to Steiner's personal mission. They reached contrasting conclusions. More recently, a claim has been made that Valentin Tomberg―a student of Anthroposophy but later an influential Roman Catholic―was the bodhisattva. In this book, Meyer analyzes these conflicting theories and demonstrates how the question can be useful as an exercise in developing sound judgment in spiritual matters. Elisabeth Vreede's two lectures on the subject, included here in full, are a valuable contribution to our understanding of the true nature and being of Rudolf Steiner. Includes a new afterword by T. H. Meyer and Carla Vlad. C O N T E N T S: Preface to New EditionIntroduction PART ONE 1. Concerning the Light of Free Insight2. A Childhood in India3. The Origin and Aim of the Theosophical Movement4. The Fundamental Christological Error of the Theosophists5. The Beginning of the End of the Theosophical Society6. The Two Sources of All Illusion7. An “Initiation” at a Youthful Age and Rudolf Steiner’s Compensatory Deed8. The One Source of All Infallibility9. Division of the Spirits10. A Dream Comes to an End11. Rudolf Steiner and the Bodhisattva Question in the 20th Century12. Concluding Perspectives PART TWO Introduction to Elisabeth Vreede’s LecturesThe Bodhisattva Question in the History of the Anthroposophical SocietyTwo Lectures Given by Elisabeth Vreede in Stuttgart, July 9 & 11, 1930 A Postscript, 21 Years on: “A Man Infinitely Greater than Any of Us” Appendix: The Bodhisattva Question in the Light of the Mystery Drama The Portal of Initiation Review "Enthusiastic readers are sometimes heard to say of a book: 'I couldn't put it down.' This is obviously either a metaphor or else a gross hyperbole. But I can't recall any book as to which in my case it came nearer to the literal truth than The Bodhisattva Question." --Owen Barfield About the Author T. H. Meyer was born in Switzerland in 1950. He is the founder of Perseus Verlag, Basel, and is editor of the monthly journal Der Europäer. He has written numerous articles and is the author of several books, including Reality, Truth, and Evil (2005) and major biographies of D.N. Dunlop and Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz. He also edited Light for the New Millennium (1997) describing Rudolf Steiner’s association with Helmuth and Eliza von Moltke. Elizabeth Vreede, Ph.D. (1879-1943), was a native of The Hague, Holland. She was interested early on in the starry sky, read the works of Camille Flammarion and learned French at the same time. At the University of Leyden, she studied mathematics, astronomy, philosophy (especially Hegel), and Sanskrit. She and her parents were theosophists, and her first meeting with Rudolf Steiner took place early on at the Theosophical Congress in London in 1903. After receiving her diploma in 1906, she gave instruction at a higher girl school in mathematics until 1910. From 1910, she lived in Berlin, worked on her dissertation and occasionally worked as a secretary for Rudolf Steiner. In April 1914, she moved to Dornach to help in the building of the first Goetheanum and was ofte
