Revelation: A Cosmic Perspective

With this major work, Edward Reaugh Smith concludes his singular series on the Bible and Anthroposophy. Understanding the Book of Revelation presents the ultimate challenge to those who wish to penetrate its deepest meaning—a spiritual mountain whose summit has remained beyond reach to most people. Paradoxically, in spite of its name, Revelation is the most veiled and mysterious book in the Bible.

A century ago, Rudolf Steiner opened a route to that summit. This book is the first extensive application of that priceless resource to the full text of Revelation. The substance of what Steiner tells us about John’s Revelation derives from the individuality who had that Apocalyptic Vision—he was a seer and visionary, and his account is esoteric and open only to such a seer. Smith presents Steiner as a seer who, for the first time since John wrote his Revelation, has penetrated the obscuring veil of this text.

The scope of John’s vision and Steiner’s exposition covers the vast stretch of our human journey. Our ongoing involvement in that journey is not optional. We are each in it from beginning to end. This book is for those who would awake to it.

CONTENTS:

The Christian Mystery

The Grand Scheme

One like a Son of Man

From Timelessness to Time to Timelessness

Basic Structure of Revelation

The Churches

Interlude for Evolutionary Panorama and Reflection

The Sixth Evolutionary Epoch and the Opening of the Seven Seals

The Blowing of the Seven Trumpets

The “Great Portent” of the Woman that Appeared in Heaven

The Two Beasts

Separating the Sheep from the Goats

Our Solar Companions

The Holy City, New Jerusalem

The Three Rainbows

Bibliography

Index of Scriptures Cited

General Index