"A Road to Self Knowledge and the Threshold of the Spiritual World" is a vintage self-help book written by Rudolf Steiner and first published in 1918. Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner (1861 - 1925) was an Austrian social reformer, philosopher, architect, esotericist and economist. He originally became famous for his literary criticism at the end of the nineteenth century and published philosophical works including "The Philosophy of Freedom". This volume aims to help the reader with problem solving in day-to-day life, walking them through the best methods for dealing with common problems and offering useful and effective life guidance with reference to spiritualism. Contents include: "In which the Attempt is made to obtain a True Idea of the Physical Body", "In which the Attempt is made to form a True Conception of the Elemental or Etheric Body", "In which the Attempt is made to form an Idea of Clairvoyant Cognition of the Elemental World", "In which the Attempt is made to form a Conception of the Guardian of the Threshold", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.