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26. The Michael Mystery: Man in his Macrocosmic Being
Tr. Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood, George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
Accordingly it is just in these circles that Anthroposophy meets with but little understanding. Faced with the results of Spiritual Science, they try to understand them with their ideas.
28. The Story of My Life: Chapter XXVII
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
This also, unfortunately, has been destroyed by life and especially by my public discussion of anthroposophy. [ 18 ] In this instance I must only describe quite objectively how the work of J.
96. Original Impulses fo the Science of the Spirit: The Relationship of Human Senses to the Outside World 19 Oct 1906, Berlin
Tr. Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner lectured there from 1903 to 1918, giving a comprehensive introduction to anthroposophy in his longest continuous series of lectures.53. A further set of notes became available for this lecture (19 Oct. 1906).
He intended to publish this theory of the senses in book form, but the work remained fragmentary. Published posthumously as Anthroposophy (A Fragment) (GA 45).55. John 1: 156.
211. The Festivals and Their Meaning II: Easter: The Teachings of the Risen Christ 13 Apr 1922, The Hague
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd, Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
As a result of this there is springing up the human longing to learn something about the need for Christ that every individual may experience in his heart. I have often made it evident that Anthroposophy has many services to render to humanity to-day. One significant service will be that rendered to the religious life.
But as men themselves make strides in super-sensible knowledge, the Mystery of Golgotha, and together with it the Christ Being Himself, will be more and more deeply understood. Anthroposophy would fain contribute to this understanding what perhaps it alone, at the present time, is able to contribute.
177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: The New Spirituality 08 Oct 1917, Dornach
Tr. Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
Still, he was satisfied with the one verse which he thought suited his purpose, which was to quote something against anthroposophy. As late as the eighteenth century, Saint-Martin knew that if we are to have fruitful political ideas there has to be a bridge between human thoughts and the spiritual influences which come from higher worlds.
The three should be treated as technical terms in the field of anthroposophy. The convention in English versions of his works has become to use capitals for the higher faculties described by these words.
138. Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: Lecture VII 31 Aug 1912, Munich
Tr. Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
Many people who today willingly receive the spiritual treasure of anthroposophy and are made happy by it, in face of what they should be seeing at the present time, are quite oblivious of it; in fact, they have their night-caps on!
If after having been so long together we can take such feelings away with us, our souls will then be taking with them the best that anthroposophy can give to man the love that proceeds from spiritual truth itself. If between now and the occasion when we hope to be together again, something may happen to prevent it, nevertheless one thing is always possible, that through this separation in space our being together physically may be transformed into true spiritual communion, so that in us the spiritual treasure may work and live and prosper.
140. Descriptive Sketches of the Spiritual World: Lecture II 11 Oct 1913, Bergen
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
If at a definite age man decides to discontinue for a while a mental occupation dear to him (this applies to external matters, because through them the grey brain-substance is moulded, but, of course, one can always study Anthroposophy as long as one does not study it like any other science)—if a man decides to cease studying something which has been his favourite pursuit for many years and strictly compels himself to leave it off, and then in quiet meditation tries to arouse the forces economised in this way—which forces would have been spent in the continued activity, but can now be used otherwise—it will be comparatively easy to attain, at any rate, a high degree of self-knowledge of the things described in my Occult Science.
In this way means are gradually created by which we can really perceive the undiscovered forces in man which can awaken in him an insight into the spiritual worlds in which he lived between his last death and his birth. In such ways Anthroposophy can really work practically upon human culture. You may be sure that it will not stop at merely teaching a few abstract truths, for it will influence mankind in such a way that it will learn that the forces slumbering today can be aroused, and that man can really raise himself to a realisation of spiritual life.
154. The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: Awakening Spiritual Thoughts 05 May 1914, Basel
Tr. Christoph von Arnim

Rudolf Steiner
Let us start with some thoughts on the life of the spirit that might be useful in considering what meaning spiritual science and living with anthroposophy can have for us, for our soul. People new to anthroposophical thinking, feeling, and perception may think we should not worry about the life of the spirit, about the spiritual world, since we enter the spiritual world anyway after death (even a materialist might say this) and will there learn all we need to know about it.
If this fear can be reduced even a little by, for example, active love and, while tending the sick, forgetting for a time that one might also be infected, the conditions are less favorable for the germs. These issues are not raised in anthroposophy merely to play on human egotism, but to describe the facts of the spiritual world. This concrete case demonstrates that in real life we cannot avoid dealing with the spiritual world, because it is the basis for our actions between going to sleep and waking up.
142. The Bhagavad Gita and the Epistles of St. Paul: Lecture I 28 Dec 1912, Cologne
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Doris M. Bugbey

Rudolf Steiner
Certainly much in the spiritual life of our present time differs from what it was even a comparatively short time ago, but it is just that very difference that makes a spiritual movement such as Anthroposophy so necessary. Let us reflect how a comparatively short time ago if a man concerned himself with the spiritual life of his own times he had in reality, as I have shown in my Basle and Munich courses, to study three periods of a thousand years each; one pre-Christian period of a thousand years, and two other millennia, the sum of which is not yet quite completed; two thousand years permeated and saturated with the spiritual stream of Christianity.
Now in the nineteenth century something peculiar appeared, something which requires Anthroposophy to explain it. There we see in one single example what mighty forces are at play. When the wonderful poem of the Bhagavad Gita first became known in Europe, certain important thinkers were enraptured by the greatness of the poem, by its profound contents; and it should never be forgotten that such a thoughtful spirit as William von Humboldt, when he became acquainted with it, said that it was the most profoundly philosophical poem that had ever come under his notice; and he made the beautiful remark, that it was worth while to have been allowed to grow as old as he to be enabled to become acquainted with the Bhagavad Gita, the great spiritual song that sounds forth from the primeval holy times of Eastern antiquity.
322. Natural Science and Its Boundaries: Natural Science and Its Boundaries 02 Oct 1920, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Waterman

Rudolf Steiner
But strangely enough, when I wanted many years ago to write down what I had given in lectures as pure Anthroposophy in order to put it into a form suitable for a book, the outer experiences, on being interiorised became so delicate and sensitive that language simply failed to provide the words, and I believe the beginning of the text—several sheets of print—lay for some five or six years at the printer's.
See, for example, The Study of Man (14 lectures) (Anthroposophical Publishing Co.); also Anthroposophy, Psychosophy, Pneumatosophy (in typescript only).2.

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