Becoming Aware of the Logos: The Way of St. John the Evangelist [Paperback]

Georg Kühlewind (Author), Friedmann Scwarzkopf (Translator)

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Publication Date: January 1985

"Becoming Aware of the Logos" places the reader in the world of living thinking and cognitive love. It teaches the way of grace and truth in a radical, original manner. The logos, although it is the ground of any true logic, is beyond ordinary dialectic. The author approaches his subject through central themes such as: the logos as speech and relationship, the logos in the beginning, the light in the darkness, the speaker, life, spirit, and grace and truth.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Georg Kuhlewind (1924-2006) was a Hungarian philosopher, writer, lecturer, and meditation teacher. He lived in Budapest, where he had been a longtime university professor of physics.

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• Paperback: 196 pages
• Publisher: Lindisfarne Books; 2nd edition (January 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0940262096
• ISBN-13: 978-0940262096
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Georg Kühlewind (1924-2006) was a Hungarian philosopher, writer, lecturer, and meditation teacher who worked from the tradition of Rudolf Steiner's spiritual science. Setting aside his early interest in music and psychology, he pursued a successful professional career as a physical chemist. Meanwhile, he continued to deepen his spiritual practice and insights. A prolific author (most of whose works are still only in German), Georg Kühlewind spent much time traveling the world, lecturing and leading workshops and seminars in meditation, psychology, epistemology, child development, anthroposophy, and esoteric Christianity. He was the author of numerous books. Kühlewind died January 15, 2006 at the age of 83.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Becoming aware of the light of the world, December 24, 2003

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This review is from: Becoming Aware of the Logos: The Way of St. John the Evangelist (Paperback)

Preface to a review: Achtung!
For an Alexandrian Didaskalos, who only through the grace of the Lord, could pursue his ministry; this book was fresh air to my thought and confirmation to the penetrating and discerning power of the word of God; "living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing until it divides soul from spirit, joints from marrow; it is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart." Hebrews 4:12. This may be said since I call on the scholars and peritos to amend and supplement.

Notes on Chapters' notes:
Even if G. Kuhlewind moves gracefully between the milestones of his spiritual science teaching on the Word, the light, life, and the spirit he could not but reveal his thought in method and goal in "The Church." His notes include Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel, Allgemiene Ikongraphie, R. Steiner's erchomenos, Radiance and seeing through a mirror (1Cor 13:12) explain the phenomena of the modern mystic.

The book milieu:
Georg Kuhlewind, author of Stages of Consciousness, Meditations on the boundaries of the soul, is a student of John the beloved disciple through his long occupation with his Gospel. He admits that in spite of his insights that he shared in this book, that no interpretation is final, a wise cautionary statement.
The book background was dominated by Rilke, whose quotations were displayed on the top of book's first nine chapters.
Rainer Maria Rilke, writer and poet, is considered one of the greatest lyric poets of modern Germany. Rilke's "object poem" describes with utmost clarity physical objects, the "silence of their concentrated reality."

Closing Appetizer:
The mystical philosopher concludes with variations on john the Baptist, whom John the beloved followed before meeting Jesus:
"He, who is the spirit of the Logos in me, whom I perceive must increase. I, my ego being, must decrease. I must prepare the ways and make straight the paths for Him who comes after me, whose messenger as an ego-being I am the messenger of the light of the world,"