{"product_id":"2940013202078","title":"Theosophy","description":"Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (25 or 27 February 1861in Donji Kraljevec, then Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire, now Croatia – 30 March 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, social thinker, architect, and esotericist. He gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the 20th century, he founded a spiritual movement, Anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy growing out of European transcendentalism and with links to Theosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1899, Steiner published an article in his Magazin für Literatur, titled “Goethe's Secret Revelation”, on the esoteric nature of Goethe's fairy tale, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily. This article led to an invitation by the Count and Countess Brockdorff to speak to a gathering of Theosophists on the subject of Nietzsche. Steiner continued speaking regularly to the members of the Theosophical Society, becoming the head of its newly constituted German section in 1902 without ever formally joining the society. It was within this society that Steiner met and worked with Marie von Sivers, who became his second wife in 1914. By 1904, Steiner was appointed by Annie Besant to be leader of the Theosophical Esoteric Society for Germany and Austria. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition of Theosophy is specially formatted and includes a Table of Contents.","brand":"Charles River Editors","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47155991314672,"sku":"2940013202078","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013202078_p0.jpg?v=1763578294","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013202078","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}