The Video from Zeitgeist Media Festival Sydney:
First who is Rudolph Steiner: (wiki)
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner[1] (25 or 27 February 1861[2] in Croatia – 30 March 1925 in Dornach, Switzerland) was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist.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.
Steiner led this movement through several phases. In the first, more philosophically oriented phase, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism;[5] his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being.[6]:291 In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts (developing a new artistic form, eurythmy) and architecture, culminating in the building of a cultural centre to house all the arts, the Goetheanum. After the First World War, Steiner worked with educators, farmers, doctors, and other professionals to develop Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture,anthroposophical medicine as well as new directions in numerous other practical areas.[7]
Quite interesting. Peter Josephs also began with his first film was also based on ESOTERIC propaganda and was very heavy laced with THEOSOPHY as well. Just google ZEITGEIST ESOTERIC or ZEITGEIST THEOSOPHY. Both Peter Joseph and Steiner then started movements built on “science and spirituality”. ZEITGEIST ADDENDUM as well as ZEITGEIST ORIENTATION GUIDE both attempt to bridge SCIENCE and TECHNOLOGY:
“SCIENCE IS DIVINITY IN ACTION” and ” SCIENCE IS FUNCTIONAL SPIRITUALITY.”.
3 min video of Peter Joseph and Zeitgeist Movement: “Science and Technology is Divinity in Action”
“Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism;[5] his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being”
Regarding theosophy and Steiner, we find on the WIKI:
In 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.[6][22] 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 Societyfor Germany and Austria.
The German Section of the Theosophical Society grew rapidly under Steiner’s leadership as he lectured throughout much of Europe on his spiritual science. During this period, Steiner maintained an original approach, replacing Madame Blavatsky‘s terminology with his own, and basing his spiritual research and teachings upon the Western esoteric and philosophical tradition. This and other differences, in particular Steiner’s vocal rejection ofLeadbeater and Besant‘s claim that Jiddu Krishnamurti was the vehicle of a new Maitreya, or world teacher,[23] led to a formal split in 1912/13,[6] when Steiner and the majority of members of the German section of the Theosophical Society broke off to form a new group, the Anthroposophical Society.
So now Zeitgeist Movement is hosting and promoting a branch of Theosophy:
Social Threefolding is a sociological theory that suggests increasing the independence of society’s three primary realms (economy,politics and culture) in such a way that those three realms can mutually correct each other in an ongoing process. The movement aims for equality of rights in political life, freedom in cultural life, and associative cooperation in economic life. It originated out of the philosophy ofAnthroposophy founded by Rudolf Steiner
Peter Josephs first film, and the namesake of his movement, “ZEITGEIST” is based on many different players of the Theosophical Movement not limited to the leader and founder of the New Age Movement and Theosophical Society Helena Blavatsky.
