# Mystics of the Renaissance and their relation to modern thought, including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others

Author: Steiner, Rudolf, 1861-1925; Gysi, Max, 1874-1946 [Editor]; Keightley, Bertram, 1860-1944 [Translator]

Genre: Category: History - Early Modern (c. 1450-1750)

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75994

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## Summary

The matter which I am laying before the public in this book formed the content of lectures which I delivered during last winter at the Theosophical Library in Berlin. I had been requested by Gräfin and Graf Brockdorff to speak upon Mysticism before an audience for whom the matters thus dealt with constitute a vital question of the utmost importance. Ten years earlier I could not have ventured to fulfil such a request. Not that the realm of ideas, to which I now give expression, did not even then live actively within me. For these ideas are already fully contained in my _Philosophy of Freedom_ (Berlin, 1894. Emil Felber). But to give expression to this world of ideas in such wise as I do t...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/mystics-of-the-renaissance-and-their-relation-to-modern-thought-c05e3a70/chapters/10/index.md)