In Mystics of the Renaissance and their relation to modern thought, Rudolf Steiner offers an interpretive study of key spiritual and philosophical figures—among them Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, and Giordano Bruno—to trace the transition from medieval inwardness to modern self-conscious thought. The book is neither a conventional history nor a devotional anthology; rather, it is a philosophically charged meditation on how mystical experience, speculative theology, and...

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are essenti...