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209. Nordic and Central European Spiritual Impulses: The Feast of the Epiphany of Christ 25 Dec 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
This is how the Gnostics saw it, not with the world view that we are again trying to gain today through anthroposophy, but with their world view, which was the last remnant of the ancient wisdom of mankind. One might say that so much of the instinctive wisdom of humanity remained that, in the first centuries after Christ's appearance, a number of people were still able to grasp what actually happened with the appearance of Christ on earth.
338. How Can We Work for the Impulse of the Threefold Social Order?: Ninth Lecture 16 Feb 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
It can never be rooted in reality. Anyone familiar with anthroposophy will readily understand this. For what constitutes spiritual life ultimately flows from within the human being.
289. The Ideas Behind the Building of the Goetheanum: The Artistic Impulses Underlying the Building Idea 09 Oct 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
This is something that had to be fought for against certain tendencies that very easily run in the opposite direction, especially in such a movement as anthroposophy. It is very easy for all kinds of mystifying elements to enter into such a movement. These elements push towards the abstract through a false mystification, and which actually – because the artistic element must express itself in the shaping and forming of the external – bypass this artistic element and strive towards the symbolic, towards the allegorical.
289. Poetry and the Art of Speech: Lecture VIII
Tr. Julia Wedgwood, Andrew Welburn

Rudolf Steiner
This does not generate super-sensible abstractions in a Cloudcuckooland, but rather a genuine Anthroposophy, and an anthroposophical art sustained by Anthroposophy. We see how the spiritual holds sway and weaves within corporeal man, and how artistic creation means making rhythmical, harmonious and plastic that which is spiritual in the bodily-physical functions.
289. The Festivals and Their Meaning I: Christmas: The Christmas Festival: A Token of the Victory of the Sun 24 Dec 1905, Berlin
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
When, however, impulses, instincts and passions have been purged and transmuted into what is known as Budhi or Chrestos, when they have developed to the level at which logical, dispassionate thinking stands to-day, then the ideal of the ancient wisdom, the ideal of Christianity, the ideal of Anthroposophy will be realised. It will then be as unnecessary to vote about what is held to be good, ideal and right as it is to vote about what has been recognised as logically right or logically wrong.
172. The Karma of Vocation: Lecture V 13 Nov 1916, Dornach
Tr. Olin D. Wannamaker, Gilbert Church, Peter Mollenhauer

Rudolf Steiner
If we observe a human being in those years when, as explained in my brochure Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy, the physical body and especially the etheric body are primarily coming into development, if we observe the development of children from approximately the seventh to the fourteenth years, we shall note that just at this time certain characteristics appear in them that are especially typical of this period.
172. Factors of Karma 13 Nov 1916, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Consider the human being in those years of life when the physical body and especially the etheric body are developing (as indicated in my little book Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy)—from the seventh to the fourteenth year—all these things are approximate. During this time we shall find certain peculiarities emerging, which distinguish this period of life especially.
176. The Karma of Materialism: Lecture III 14 Aug 1917, Berlin
Tr. Rita Stebbing

Rudolf Steiner
For although the difference is considerable it can be ascertained only by subtler means Before the Mystery of Golgotha, as Anthroposophy explains, man had as a matter of course a relationship with spiritual beings in the cosmos, with the beings of the higher Hierarchies.
154. The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path: Understanding the Spiritual World II 12 May 1914, Berlin
Tr. Christoph von Arnim

Rudolf Steiner
4 I want to quote this remark particularly because it shows how very alone Fichte felt then—108 years ago now—with his tidings of the spiritual world in view of the general attitudes and spirit of the times. And yet, we cannot help but feel that anthroposophy is the fulfillment of what the great minds in human history longed and strove for in their endeavors.
303. Soul Economy: Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education: Children before the Seventh Year 29 Dec 1921, Dornach
Tr. Roland Everett

Rudolf Steiner
If you listen to what lives in the human heart, you find that real human happiness on earth depends on the awareness of human freedom, an appreciation of human values, and a feeling for human dignity. Anthroposophy shows us that—apart from what a person may have developed even before birth or conception while still in the spiritual world and apart from what one will meet again after death—the very purpose of earthly incarnation involves enlivening the impulse toward freedom.

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