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104. The Apocalypse of St. John: Lecture IV 21 Jun 1908, Nuremberg
Tr. Mabel Cotterell

Rudolf Steiner
How is this expressed? Let us realize what according to Anthroposophy becomes of the external sense world. How have we described the seven stars? We went back to Saturn and showed how the physical human body originated, how it was constructed out of warmth.
Thus we see spiritual powers in sun and moon. And the knowledge we acquire through Anthroposophy also appears rightly symbolized in a future age; to our spiritual. vision the sun and moon appear as the forces which have constructed man.
115. Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit: Imagination — Inspiration — Intuition 15 Dec 1911, Berlin
Tr. Samuel P. Lockwood, Loni Lockwood

Rudolf Steiner
Since error is spiritual, we cannot overcome it through mere perception from the sense world. In the lectures on Anthroposophy I pointed out that the senses as such do not err. Goethe once emphasized that. It is not the senses that err but what goes on in the soul; therefore, error can only be corrected within the soul, and primarily through visualization.
Steiner could employ the non-German word Imagination in the sense familiar to students of anthroposophy, without much danger of confusion, because it is practically never used in German to mean ‘imagination’ in the common sense (that is Phantasie).
210. Old and New Methods of Initiation: Lecture XI 26 Feb 1922, Dornach
Tr. Johanna Collis

Rudolf Steiner
Now it is becoming obvious—though it is not expressed in the way Anthroposophy has to express it—that in all sorts of places at this point in human evolution there is a more vital sense for the need to gain greater clarity of soul about this change.
If we want to pursue the matter with regard to the East we need to call on the assistance of Anthroposophy. For what takes place in the souls of Goethe and Schiller, which are, after all, here on the earth—what, in them, blows through earthly souls is, in the East, still in the spiritual world and finds no expression whatsoever down on the earth.
211. Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity 02 Apr 1922, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
An antagonism to Ahriman exists today only in the teachings like those that stream through Anthroposophy. If Anthroposophy can again make clear to men the independence of the spirit-soul being which is not dependent on the bodily being, Ahriman will have to give up his hopes for the time.
211. Exoteric And Esoteric Christianity 02 Apr 1922, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Opposition to Ahriman really exists to-day only in such teachings as are contained in Anthroposophy. When, through Anthroposophy, man once again realises that the soul and the Spirit are independent of the bodily nature, then Ahriman must begin to abandon hope.
207. The Seeds of Future Worlds 24 Sep 1921, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
It is lecture 1 of 11 from the lecture series: Anthroposophy as Cosmosophy Vol. I It is also known as: At the Center of Man's Being: II, or Natural Law and Moral Law.
Needless to say, one cannot set things before the world at large to-day in the way I have described them to you here, for people have not yet been sufficiently prepared by Spiritual Science and Anthroposophy. Yet there are ways in which one can point out even to modern men how they carry in them a centre of destruction, and how in the world outside there is something wherein the Ego of man is as it were submerged, where it cannot hold itself fast—as in earlier times men were told about the Fall and other doctrines of that kind.
179. Historical Necessity and Freewill: Lecture IV 11 Dec 1917, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Of course, we must imagine that this carpet contains also the impressions of our hearing, the impressions of the twelve senses, such as we know them through Anthroposophy. You know that in reality there are twelve senses. This carpet of the sense impressions covers, as it were, a reality “lying behind”—if I may use this expression (but I am speaking in comparisons).
You see why man needs this lower realm between death and a new birth; he must master it; he needs it because he must transform the centaur into a human being. What Anthroposophy sets forth has been attained only in single flashes outside the occult schools. There have always been a few men who discovered these things, as if in flashes.
235. Karma: The Single Factor of Karma 01 Mar 1924, Dornach
Tr. Henry B. Monges

Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner: Psycho-Analysis in the Light of Anthroposophy (in preparation). {It's prepared! - e.Ed}] All these are amateurish interpretations of life.
On one occasion, in the early stages of our anthroposophical activity, a lady appeared among us who had heard of reincarnation. She liked other things in Anthroposophy very much indeed, but in repeated earth lives she would not participate; one earth life was quite enough for her—with others she would have nothing to do.
235. Karmic Relationships I: Lecture XI 22 Mar 1924, Dornach
Tr. George Adams, Mabel Cotterell, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
There are, of course, risks in speaking of these matters, but in view of the whole situation of the spiritual life which ought to proceed from Anthroposophy today, I do not think such risks can be avoided. What I am now going to tell you came to my notice several years after I had last seen the person in question, who was a greatly beloved teacher of mine up to my eighteenth year.
Many of you who know something about the history of Anthroposophy will be familiar with his name. Eugen Heinrich Schmidt first became known in Vienna during the eighties, and it was then that I made his acquaintance.
224. The Waking of the Human Soul and the Forming of Destiny: The Need for Understanding The Christ 29 Apr 1923, Prague
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Just imagine what the situation would be if, through some kind of accident, all anthroposophical books and other writings should disappear, and that the nature of anthroposophy would have to be adjudged only on the basis of writings by its opponents. Just so much is known today by people who depend upon external documents regarding Gnosis.
This cannot be found unless we begin to seek for a spiritual knowledge. Spiritual knowledge, as this is sought by anthroposophy, will find again the relation with the Christ. This relation can be found only spiritually. What occurred on Golgotha is not merely an event that has laid hold upon the physical, earthly history of humanity, but also a spiritual event.

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