Invisible Science

 

  The Golden Blade,  1954, pp. 93-95 The Redemption of Thinking: A Study in the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas , by Rudolf Steiner. Translated and edited with an Introduction and Epilogue by A. P. Shepherd and Mildred Robertson Nicoll. ( Hodder and Stoughton , 12s. 6.) The difficulty of introducing Anthroposophy to more and more people in the outside world is notorious. Over and over again those engaged in the task find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. If they “link on” with thoughts and problems which are in the general intellectual climate, the reader who is totally unacquainted with the depths from which Rudolf Steiner’s Anthroposophy springs will see it as one more interesting theory – not so very different from several with which he is already acquainted. But if they avoid this pitfall and insist on the depths, what they say will sound, to such a reader, fantastic and pretentious. In this precarious adventure, Dr. A. P. Shepherd is a pioneer. It is less than two years since his