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208. Cosmosophy Vol. II: Lecture I 21 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
This other image of the world is exactly what I am always talking about in anthroposophy. Unlike the passive image we gain from external observation this is an active image, something in which we must be actively involved. To read books on anthroposophy you have to let your thoughts become mobile. People who are only used to things the way they generally are today are not willing to do this; they want to have everything presented smoothly, so that their thoughts may be quiet, passive images of what has been given and they can, in a way, be a little bit asleep in relation to the world around them.
209. Cosmic Forces in Man: Cosmic Forces in Man 24 Nov 1921, Oslo
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Knowing something of the spiritual teachings of Anthroposophy, however, you will realise that what I shall now say is drawn from a deeper knowledge of the world and is something more than a series of unsubstantiated statements.
And that is why it has been imperative to infuse something of Anthroposophy into the domain of moral and social life too, for we believe that these impulses can lead away from the forces of decline to the forces of upward progress.
222. The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History: Lecture V 18 Mar 1923, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Johanna Collis

Rudolf Steiner
It can be healed only an the basis of a spiritual world-outlook sought by way of Anthroposophy. Man comes to realize the existence of Archai who have now received the task in the cosmos of linking the thoughts of man—which now arise in isolation in the soul—to the world-processes in due arrangement.
Moral impulsion can arise anywhere today from Anthroposophy if rightly grasped—only it must be grasped by the whole being of man. If we grasp this thought, the thought of responsibility to the normally evolving Archai, if we truly grasp our spiritual function in the cosmos, then we shall also find the place that rightly belongs to us in our epoch; we shall be true men of our time.
222. The Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History: Lecture VII 23 Mar 1923, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Johanna Collis

Rudolf Steiner
Here again is one of the points where we are shown how Anthroposophy connects the moral world of soul with the physical world of the senses, whereas today no such connection exists and modern theology even considers it preferable to regard the moral sphere as being entirely independent of the physical.
There are things which we should not merely take into our theories, into our abstract speculations, but deeply into our hearts, for Anthroposophy is a concern of the heart. And the more clearly it is grasped as a concern of the heart, the better it is understood.
225. The World of Dreams as a Bridge between the Physical World and the World of Moral Ideas 22 Sep 1923, Dornach
Tr. Violet E. Watkin

Rudolf Steiner
Therefore those whose attitude is that of materialistic science say: Anthroposophy is spiritual to a fantastic degree. On the other hand, theosophists or theologians are content with abstract spirit that is never actively creative and does not show any real connection with material activity; and these call Anthroposophy materialistic because it extends its knowledge to what is material.
220. Salt, Mercury, Sulphur 13 Jan 1923, Dornach
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Jacob Boehme expressed in halting language that which in olden times was an inner experience. But if Anthroposophy did not shed light upon what Jacob Boehme says, we should never be able to interpret his stammering utterances.
1. Published in Anthroposophy, Christmas, 1930.
351. On the Nature of Butterflies 08 Oct 1923, Dornach
Tr. A. Innes

Rudolf Steiner
We do not progress for the simple reason that the general public finds it easier to accept what it hears. The truth today is told only by Anthroposophy! Nowhere else will you hear what I have just told you. Nobody will say such things. The general public simply pays no attention to them any longer.
The matters we shall be studying further will show you that a genuine science which understands them can only arise out of Anthroposophy.
196. Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity: Fifteenth Lecture 15 Feb 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
For if we direct our attention to the spiritual and soul life, we shall become accustomed to characterizing human groups throughout the world according to their own soul and spiritual qualities, and not merely according to their physical characteristics, as is often done in present-day anthropology. Anthroposophy must take the place of mere anthropology. But the matter has a very serious, practical side.
But do not think that these historical circumstances can be properly understood by anyone who does not first know enough about anthroposophy to become familiar, for example, with something like the three 'beautiful' figures (see drawing on p. 229) in their mutual relationship, or with what we developed here yesterday and the day before.
338. How Can We Work for the Impulse of the Threefold Social Order?: Eighth Lecture 16 Feb 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
Boos has indeed struck out in a somewhat sharp manner in a reply to certain attacks. It was claimed in Swiss newspapers that anthroposophy was borrowed from various ancient writings; something was said about the Indian Vedic and Vedanta literature, the Bhagavad Gita was mentioned, and among the things that were mentioned was also the Akasha Chronicle!
He says, and he means me, that he finds my wisdom bloodless, abstract and empty and claims that he can always say in advance what people of my ilk might bring forward; the essence of my philosophy is “spiritual shortness of breath, an inner gasping for air,” and I “don't have a clue about anthroposophy, not even a blue one.” So you see, the way I have given this characteristic characterizes Count Keyserling himself.
6. Goethe's World View: Epilogue to the New Edition of 1918
Tr. William Lindemann

Rudolf Steiner
I have expressed myself about this search for contradictions in my books in the preface to the first volume of my Riddles of Philosophy and in an article in the journal, Das Reich (“Spiritual Science as Anthroposophy and Contemporary Epistemology”). This kind of search is possible only for critics who completely fail to recognize how in fact my world view must proceed in order to grasp the different areas of life.

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