Kibea

LIKE INDIVIDUALS, ALSO COMMUNITIES, NATIONS AND CONTINENTS pass through processes that have a meaning for their development. This meaning can be found in the context of their life story. A biography of Europe is more than a recording of the main historical processes. It is a reconstruction of the dynamics of cultural development that makes visible the forces which have influenced it. It is also a reflection on the goals of European civilization and on the mission of Europe in the world.

This book describes how the founding cultures of Europe received important impulses from the cultures of the Near East and Egypt. This led to a unique new culture that is based upon the development of the free personality and human intelligence. European culture became an educational project that created a new consciousness that is no longer the exclusive property of Europeans, but represents a new quality of the consciousness of humanity.

European culture has produced a whole series of educational centers, starting with the mystery schools of the prehistoric communities, philosophical academies of Greece, the spiritual brotherhoods of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the modern schools and universities, and the new academies of spiritual science. In the history of Europe they have offered ways to realize man’s potential intelligence.
This spiritual biography of Europe identifies the creative impulses that opened new possibilities and the spiritual leaders that were the first to realize them. Beginning with the birth of European culture on the island of Crete it shows for each period of about seven hundred years the essential forces in the development of European consciousness.
From the end of the Middle Ages European countries have shaped the modern world, but in the 20th century the United States has become the leading global power. For Europe this was the century of a deep crisis, which could signify a fundamental transition to a new spiritual consciousness. It has been prepared by a number of spiritual leaders and if their vision may have a break through then the role of Europe in the world would become a very different one. It would indeed be the beginning of the most essential chapter in.

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