Anthroposophy does not want to impart knowledge. It seeks to awaken life.

Rudolf Steiner (1861 CE-1925 CE), Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner ( 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.