Colin Wilson was born in the East Midlands city of Leicester in 1931. After the phenomenal success of his first book The Outsider in 1956, he moved to Cornwall where he pursued a successful career as a writer, producing over 150 titles in fifty-five years. Essentially an existential philosopher, he has also written on crime, psychology, sex, the occult, literature, music, unexplained phenomena, history, pre-history, and over twenty novels in various genres. He died in December 2013.
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: The Door to the Inner Universe
Chapter Two: Childhood of a Visionary
Chapter Three: The Goethe Scholar
Chapter Four: The Long Apprenticeship
Chapter Five: Rebirth
Chapter Six: Occultist and Guru
Chapter Seven: The Building of the Temple
Chapter Eight: Disaster
Chapter Nine: Postscript: Steiner's Achievement
Bibliography
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