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303. Soul Economy: Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education: Aesthetic Education 05 Jan 1922, Dornach
Tr. Roland Everett

Rudolf Steiner
This is what we need to keep in mind. Question: How can a student of anthroposophy avoid losing the capacity for love and memory when crossing the boundary of sense-perceptible knowing?
Not that I dislike answering questions, but I have to admit that I do not like answering questions such as, What is the attitude of anthroposophy toward this or that contemporary movement? There is no need for this, because I consider it my task to represent to the world only what can be gained from anthroposophic research.
314. Anthroposophical Approach to Medicine: Lecture II 27 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Tr. Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
It may, to begin with, be a stumbling-block to hear it said in Anthroposophy that man, as he stands before us in the physical world, consists of a physical organisation, an etheric organisation, an astral organisation and an Ego-organisation.
Just as there is an inner law in the solid substances, expressing itself, among other things, in the relationship between the kidneys and the heart, so we must postulate the existence of a law within the airy or gaseous organism—a law that is not confined to the physical, solid organs. Anthroposophy describes this complex of law, which underlies the gaseous organism, as astral law, as the astral organisation.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Twenth-Sixth Meeting 17 Jun 1921, Stuttgart
Tr. Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
In making the individual human being understandable, you can take a great deal from Anthroposophy without getting the reputation of teaching Anthroposophy. That is the objective truth. Teach about the physical human being and its organs and functions in relation to the soul and spirit.
273. The Problem of Faust: The Vision of Reality in the Greek Myths 18 Jan 1919, Dornach
Tr. George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
The whole mood and tenor, the whole artistic structure of the Classical Walpurgis-Night shows how clearly Goethe saw that the problem of human nature con only be solved by a knowledge based on investigation pursued, outside the body, by man's soul and spirit.What he wishes to ray forth from his Faust is his conviction that information concerning man can be given only by those who admit the validity of knowledge acquired outside the instrument of the physical body. Hence, true Spiritual Science, true Anthroposophy, alone can lead to the knowledge of man, of Homo; while all the other knowledge dealing with the physical world, can only lead to the idea of Homunculus.
Faust was to represent for him a man who at last arrives at a real knowledge and comprehension of mankind. Now, in Goethe's time Anthroposophy was not yet, and could not have been, in existence. Hence Goethe tried to associate himself with his contemporary culture, in which thee were still echoes of atavistic spiritual vision.
109. The Principle of Spiritual Economy: The God of the Alpha and the God of the Omega 25 May 1909, Berlin
Tr. Peter Mollenhauer

Rudolf Steiner
By leading us—at least in thinking—into the spiritual world, anthroposophy has certain beneficial qualities in common with sleep. The cares and worries that issue from the things of the sense world are obliterated in sleep.
Knowing all this, the Masters assigned the mission of proclaiming anthroposophy in the present age to those who have already attained a high level of understanding. It is essential that Spiritual Science begin now to become a spiritual impulse of our time.
104. The Apocalypse of St. John: Lecture I 18 Jun 1908, Nuremberg
Tr. Mabel Cotterell

Rudolf Steiner
The world and all it contains will at length become to one who applies Anthroposophy to life more and more a physical expression of divine spiritual realities; and when he observes the visible world around him it will be to him as if he penetrated from the mere features of a person's face to his heart and soul.
I shall postpone to the last lectures what is to be said about the historical part of the Apocalypse until we have understood what is contained in the Apocalypse. To those who have studied Anthroposophy but little, there can be no doubt that even the introductory words of the Apocalypse show us what it is intended to be.
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.

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