On Life

1. 1 IntroductionRead by Richard Vogel 34m
2. 2 Chapter 1 The essential contradiction inherent in human lifeRead by Arden 6m
3. 3 Chapter 2 Humanity has recognized from the earliest days the contradiction of life...Read by Luke Hamilton 9m
4. 4 Chapter 3 The errors of the ScribesRead by Ian S. Carr 5m
5. 5 Chapter 4 The doctrine of the Scribes substitutes the visible manifestation of man's animal existence...Read by Luke Hamilton 7m
6. 6 Chapter 5 The false doctrines of the Pharisees and Scribes no more explain the true meaning of life...Read by Tatiana Chichilla 9m
7. 7 Chapter 6 The division in the consciousness of the men of our timeRead by Luke Hamilton 6m
8. 8 Chapter 7 The division of consciousness proceeds from the confusion of the animal life with the humanRead by marvinch 7m
9. 9 Chapter 8 The division and the contradiction are only apparent: they are the consequence of false doctrineRead by Luke Hamilton 5m
10. 10 Chapter 9 The birth of the true life in manRead by jenno 6m
11. 11 Chapter 10 Reason is the law recognized by man, in conformity with which his life must be perfectedRead by Kerry Adams 6m
12. 12 Chapter 11 False direction of knowledgeRead by Luke Hamilton 9m
13. 13 Chapter 12 The cause of false knowledge is the false perspective in which objects appearRead by jenno 9m
14. 14 Chapter 13 The possibility of understanding objects increases not in proportion to their manifestation in time and space...Read by Luke Hamilton 10m
15. 15 Chapter 14 The true human life is not that which is lived in time and spaceRead by pratibhanair 8m
16. 16 Chapter 15 The renunciation of the wellbeing of the animal individuality is the law of human lifeRead by Luke Hamilton 7m
17. 17 Chapter 16 The animal individuality is the instrument of lifeRead by colleenomorrow 5m
18. 18 Chapter 17 Birth by the SpiritRead by Luke Hamilton 3m
19. 19 Chapter 18 The demands of the reasonable consciousnessRead by worldwideput 10m
20. 20 Chapter 19 Confirmation of the demands of the reasonable consciousnessRead by John 10m
21. 21 Chapter 20 The demands of the individuality appear incompatible with those of the reasonable consciousnessRead by ivobrkn18Harrop 5m
22. 22 Chapter 21 What is required is not renunciation of our individuality but the subjugation of individuality to the reasonable consciousnessRead by Michael Fassio 10m
23. 23 Chapter 22 The feeling of love is the manifestation of the activity of the individuality subjected to the reasonable consciousnessRead by John 10m
24. 24 Chapter 23 The manifestation of the feeling of love is impossible to men who do not understand the meaning of their lifeRead by Paul Lawley-Jones 16m
25. 25 Chapter 24 True love is a consequence of the renunciation of the welfare of the individualityRead by Tim Juang 9m
26. 26 Chapter 25 Love is the sole and complete activity of the true lifeRead by Tim Juang 7m
27. 27 Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their existence, deprive them of the possibility of living the one true lifeRead by Jesse Zuba 7m
28. 28 Chapter 27 The fear of death is only the consciousness of the unsolved contradiction of lifeRead by Jesse Zuba 10m
29. 29 Chapter 28 Carnal death destroys the body limited in space and the consciousness limited in time...Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 14m
30. 30 Chapter 29 Men fear death because they have restricted life by their false conception, taking a part of life to be the wholeRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 7m
31. 31 Chapter 30 Life is a relationship to the world. The movement of life is the establishment of new and loftier relationships...Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 7m
32. 32 Chapter 31 The life of men when they are dead does not cease in this worldRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 11m
33. 33 Chapter 32 The dread of death proceeds from man's confusion of his different relationships to the worldRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 9m
34. 34 Chapter 33 The visible life is a part of the infinite movement of lifeRead by czandra 11m
35. 35 Chapter 34 The incomprehensibility of the sufferings of earthly existence proves to man more convincingly than anything...Read by Luke Hamilton 20m
36. 36 Chapter 35 Physical sufferings constitute an indispensable condition of the life and welfare of menRead by Luke Hamilton 11m
37. 37 ConclusionRead by Kerry Adams 2m
38. 38 Appendix IRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 5m
39. 39 Appendix IIRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 4m
40. 40 Appendix IIIRead by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 3m
41. 41 Appendix IV Mr. H. W. Massingham on "Life"Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf 16m

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