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The Secret Stream Collects All of Steiner s Discussions of Rosicrucianism, Which Answer Questions Such As Who Were the Rosicrucians What Is Alchemy What Is the Rosicrucian Path What Is the Difference Between Rosicrucianism and Mysticism And What Does It Mean for Today Topics Include the Tao and the Rose Cross The History and Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz The Nature of Rosicrucian Practice and Experience The Meaning of The Chymical Wedding and Goethe s Rosicrucian Poem "The Mysteries," the Text of Which Is Included. Rosicrucian Meditation Is Also Discussed, Including How to Meditate on the Rose Cross Itself. 

Finally, I would like to admit that, even with such extensive reviews and revisions, the book is still neither perfect nor does it represent the last word. Especially in such an active field as STM and AFM, new concepts and new measurements come out every day. I expect that substantial progress will be made in the years to come. Naturally, I am looking forward to future editions. I am anxious to hear any comments and suggestions from readers, with whose help, the future editions of this book would be more useful, more truthful, and more accurate. Thus spake Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ... 

Runge perceived in nature a dialectic at work. All is polarity, opposition, contradiction. Goethe too had recognized polarity in his analysis of colour, a quality that he insisted emerged from the conflictual interaction of light and darkness. But his polarity led always towards a progressive enhancement or... 

The often luckless alchemists were looking for the transmutatio metallorum , the transmutation of non-noble metals into gold. Here, of course, they remained unsuccessful. Attempts to create a homunculus , a human being in a test tube, also failed completely. The work De generatione rerum naturalium (On the generation of natural things) by Paracelsus did the most to spread the idea of tiny creatures in a test tube. Three hundred years later, the homunculus found its way into world literature in Goethe s Faust . 

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