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177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: The Search for a Perfect World 01 Oct 1917, Dornach
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

The world holds opinions that not only differ but often are the direct opposite of the truths that have to be spoken out of anthroposophy. It is only to be expected, therefore, that people will consider these truths to be incredible, warped and downright foolish.
Consideration must be given to many general and more important interests and impulses than to the purely personal ambitions which rule one set of people or another. To find the right way of presenting anthroposophy we simply must be able to set aside the purely personal element which for many is about the only thing that interests them today.
173c. The Karma of Untruthfulness II: Lecture XXIV 28 Jan 1917, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis

So what does it mean to you when discussing a people or a nation to speak, not of an abstraction but of a concrete being? Well, in Anthroposophy we have the possibility of studying the human being, who is also a concrete being, and who possesses a physical body, an etheric body, an astral body and an ego.
Anthropology is the materialistic, external view; Anthroposophy will have to reveal the true conditions, the actual realities. Since, in their materialism, people today are such a long way from any reality, it is no wonder that things which are included in world programmes are spoken about in such an arbitrary and mendacious manner.
350. Learning to See in the Spiritual World: The Development of Independent Thinking and of the Ability To Think Backward 28 Jun 1923, Dornach
Translated by Walter Stuber, Mark Gardner

Most people, when they hear that something like Anthroposophy or spiritual science exists, think to themselves: Very well, if that is so, I too will acquire for myself the capacity to see the spirit.
This need not be the case if one has adopted a spiritual mode of life, but in normal life there is a certain retrogression as one gets older. It is just the task of Anthroposophy to see to it that in the future one does not regress as one gets older. Slowly and gradually this must happen.
353. The History of Humanity and the World Views of Civilized Nations: Man and the Hierarchies – The Loss of Ancient Knowledge – On the “Philosophy of Freedom” 25 Jun 1924, Dornach

Now, you see, if you are a little attentive, if you don't go wild from the outset when it comes to the spiritual, but if you just allow yourself to be open to the fact that it can be about the spiritual, then you will come across many things – even if you cannot yet proceed with spiritual research, as is the case with anthroposophy. Just imagine that if you want to feel, you have to have a certain warmth within you! The frog feels much less vividly than man because it does not have such warm blood; you really have to have warmth within you if you feel.
It used to be the case for a while – but it's no longer true – that you would often see anthroposophists together, men and women: the man would not cut his hair, he would just have long curls, and the women would cut their hair short! Of course, people also said: This anthroposophy brings the world upside down; among anthroposophists, the ladies cut their hair off and the men let it grow. - Now that is no longer the case, at least not so noticeable.
97. The Christian Mystery (2000): The Christian Mystery 09 Feb 1906, Düsseldorf
Translated by Anna R. Meuss

Within three thousand years we shall learn something that belongs to a higher realm because we have previously gone through anthroposophy. This is the spiritual side of it. But all things of the spirit must also have a counter image in the physical world.
The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: Synopses

Imaginative pictures of Teutonic mythology replaced by concepts in Anthroposophy. Lecture Nine Cognition of ego different from other forms of cognition.
260. The Christmas Conference : The Laying the Foundation Stone for the Anthroposophical Society 25 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

The proper soil into which we must lower the Foundation Stone of today, the proper soil consists of our hearts in their harmonious collaboration, in their good, love-filled desire to bear together the will of Anthroposophy through the world. This will cast its light on us like a reminder of the light of thought that can ever shine towards us from the dodecahedral Stone of love which today we will lower into our hearts.
261. Our Dead: Eulogy for Christian Morgenstern 10 Apr 1914, Vienna

And those of us who do not just want to be connected to the spiritual life that we have dedicated ourselves to on the outside, but rather very deeply within, will understand when I now present each of them with a very personal request: may the souls of our friends be allowed to deepen their anthroposophical experience of what they can experience and deepen within themselves through the artistic rebirth of anthroposophy in the poetry of Christian Morgenstern. So let us joyfully, united with his wife, who so understandingly and lovingly stood by him and continues to do so, stand by her faithfully in the cultivation of his memory.
253. Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher: Resolving the Case

As late as 1923, he appeared in public in Berlin as a “non-anthroposophical expert on anthroposophy” and again spoke out against Rudolf Steiner. This will be documented in the volume on the history of the Society covering the year 1923.
193. The Crossing of the Threshold and the Social Organism 12 Sep 1919, Berlin
Translator Unknown

And the human beings who unite in that movement which we designate as a spiritual-scientific movement oriented towards Anthroposophy, should feel that they are a KERNEL from which the forces ray out that can give rise to a new social structure.

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