Edouard Schure: 4 books

"Jesus, the Last Great Initiate" is an esoteric look at the life of Jesus, here considered the ultimate of a long line of 'Initiates.' Edouard Schure was a French author who influenced Rudolph Steiner, the German founder of Anthroposophy. Steiner also viewed Christ as both an historical individual and as a manifestation of the divine in the human realm.

Blind soul! Arm thyself with the torch of the Mysteries, and in the night of earth shalt thou uncover thy luminous. Double, thy celestial Soul. Follow this divine guide and let him be thy Genius, for he holds the key of thy lives, both past and to come. Appeal to the Initiates (from the Book...

We are beginning to understand that Jesus, at the very height of his consciousness, the transfigured Christ, is opening his loving arms to his brothers, the other Messiahs who preceded him, beams of the Living Word as he was, that he is opening them wide to Science in its entirety, Art in its divinity,...

Extrait : Il y a juste un siècle que l’Inde surgit à l’horizon intellectuel de l’Europe. Quelques traductions du sanscrit, plusieurs fragmens de la vieille épopée héroïque, le Mahâbhârata et un drame ravissant, Sacountala, révélèrent...