“Through systematic exercising of our thinking faculties, we can train ourselves for exact clairvoyance. Imaginative Knowledge is the first step in supersensible perception, and through it we reach the first element of the supersensible it is possible to reach, namely, the supersensible body that we bear within our earthly body in physical space.”

Austrian philosopher and esotericist

Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. He became known at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic, and later for founding anthroposophy, an esoteric spiritual movement rooted in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. He also wrote works including The Philosophy of Freedom. His teachings drew on Christian Gnosticism or neognosticism, and he was described as a claimed clairvoyant who said he could speak with the dead. Many of his ideas are regarded as pseudoscientific, and he was also associated with pseudohistory.