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Is this not enough?
Using Rudolf Steiner's insights, I can say that I am the manifestation of cosmic fulness, that which was there in the beginning. But more than being merely a cosmic mediator, I am, to use Steiner’s own words, ‘the unified world of ideas which reveals itself through this organism’.
 Rudolf Steiner
Is this not enough? Is this not finally the answer to the great grail question - 'what am I?'
The question remains - does something emerge from intuition that was not there before? Is man ever free to create?
If thoughts are pre-existent as Steiner implies, then the answer to these questions is surely no.
If this is the case, then what was taken to be the creative activity of the mind and imagination, particularly by artists and poets, and one thinks of Ezra Pound’s dictate to ‘make it new’ here, was in reality an intuited manifestation of the pre-existing, i.e. that which was there from the beginning.
What we see in the ‘creative’ imagination of the fully human individual is the full flowering of what existed from the beginning, but as thought incarnated, or even reincarnated.
Steiner found a meaning to life here, or, rather, a purpose to life, i.e. to make the world spirit manifest.
Let us take stock here. Has Steiner answered the grail question?
'What am I?' In Steiner's terms I am a cosmic mediator, thought incarnated, the manifestation of cosmic fulness, that which was in the beginning.
Found! The meaning to life! Answered! The grail question! Is this not enough?
Even accepting Steiner's insights as true for now, the answer is no. Steiner is offering a purpose to life, not a meaning.
© John Dunn.
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What ought to be
The Romantic Movement in turn will then be seen as an emanation of the Promethean struggle for freedom against a mind-independent reality, ‘the struggle between good and evil the essential wheel in the working of things’, first articulated by Zarathustra.
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Modernity amounts precisely to the slow, gradual conquest of subjectivism: the slow and gradual identification of being and thought, of truth and man. It amounts to the foundation, so celebrated throughout the centuries, of the regnum hominis: the establishment of a true Humanism. Giovanni Gentile
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Spinozism as Marxism
The Romantic Movement was an emanation of the Promethean struggle for freedom against a mind-independent reality, ‘the struggle between good and evil the essential wheel in the working of things’, first articulated by Zarathustra.
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