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197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: Lecture IX 08 Nov 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
It must grow out of merely physical human concerns and become cosmic. Spiritual science working towards Anthroposophy is attempting to do this. It is a continuation of Goetheanism, extending into the spiritual realm.
Before us—and this is something spiritual science working towards Anthroposophy must really stress—lies the time when we will be purely human beings, holding the East, the Middle and the West within us at one and the same time.
197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: Lecture X 14 Nov 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
We often do not realize how different the world has become for modern humanity and how quickly this has come about, relatively speaking. Spiritual science working towards Anthroposophy is, moreover, called upon to consider the full implications of such a fact. So far I have merely described the outer aspect.
This, however, can only be produced out of the living spirit, out of the spirit which spiritual science working towards Anthroposophy is seeking. Spiritual science has something that must enter into the impulses of the present age if we are to have a life of the spirit that is Christian again, a political life that once again is human and does not fail to encompass the human being, and an economic life that is controlled by human beings and not by horse power years.
191. Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism: Social Impulses for the Healing of Modern Civilization 10 Oct 1919, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Why, it is even an accusation that one frequently hears made against Anthroposophy, that it lays too little stress on men being redeemed by Christ and not by themselves. People prefer to be led; they prefer to be guided; they would really prefer fatalism to be true.
If one talks about the Spirit of a Nation, in the sense in which we speak of it in Anthroposophy, then one can talk about a Nation, for then there is a reality at the back of it; but not when it merely signifies an abstraction.
192. Social Basis For Primary and Secondary Education: Lecture II 18 May 1919, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
But to this point of observation, which underlies the whole of European life and proceeds from what is so clearly to be learnt in the general change-over to our modern age at the end of the fourteenth century, we come with the right point of view only by studying anthroposophy in its deepest aspects. The essential facts are not falsified by this, but we are directed to that point in evolution where is revealed in clear symptoms what lies rather beneath the superficial stream of evolution, and what is to be looked upon as the actual driving element.
Then another feeling will come to life, a tendency to go beyond specialisation to what we try here to bring about through anthroposophy. We must come to the point of never breaking the thread of our study of the universally human, of our insight into what man actually is; we must never be submerged in specialisation in spite of having our specialists.
205. Humanity, World Soul and World Spirit I: First Lecture 16 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
And even with regard to what is activated by the human being, we can distinguish in three ways: hallucination, fantasy and imagination, and we are referred to body, soul and spirit. You see, with Anthroposophy you have to penetrate deeper and deeper into its essence to see how it covers the details from its wholeness.
And basically, most of what is being said today by opponents of anthroposophy and everything associated with it is untrue. What profound dishonesty is evident in those who today virtually present themselves as the bearers of truth, who call themselves the proclaimers of truth!
192. Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues: Fourteenth Lecture 20 Jul 1919, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
From the fact that I not only gave my lectures on anthroposophy in Germany, among Germans, but also went to other countries. I have given lectures from Bergen to Palermo, and I still regard it today as a most beautiful sign of the impulse that could come from this movement for world peace, that as late as May 1914 I was able to give a speech on anthroposophy in Paris, in German, to a public audience, so that each sentence had to be translated.
154. The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: Faith and Knowledge 17 Apr 1914, Prague
Tr. Christoph von Arnim

Rudolf Steiner
For example, I once gave a lecture in a town in southern Germany, and afterward two Catholic priests came up to me and said that I was only speaking to educated people, while they spoke so everyone could understand them. In reality, the opposite is the case. Anthroposophy can reach everyone provided we find the way to the simple, ordinary people. The farmer would understand it much better than the so-called educated person if only the way were not blocked by social conventions.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Thirty-Fifth Meeting 22 Jun 1922, Stuttgart
Tr. Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
It would also be good for someone to speak to the question of how poorly anthroposophy is treated by our contemporaries. It would be very good to speak about that. The Waldorf teachers should speak.
279. Eurythmy as Visible Speech: Moods of Soul Which Arise Out of Gestures of the Sounds 10 Jul 1924, Dornach
Tr. Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
Of course all this must not be exaggerated, for in the realm of Anthroposophy we must never become fanatics; it is possible to carry such ideas too far. We need not, for instance, advocate that only such poems as arose out of the Mysteries should be done in eurythmy, or such poems as are fashioned, as it were, after the manner of the Mysteries.
93a. Foundations of Esotericism: Lecture XXVIII 31 Oct 1905, Berlin
Tr. Vera Compton-Burnett, Judith Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
75. See Anthroposophy and the Social Question which appeared at about the same time in the periodical Luzifer-Gnosis.

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