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76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Opening Address 03 Apr 1921, Dornach

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76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Philosophy 04 Apr 1921, Dornach

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76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Mathematics and the Inorganic Natural Sciences 05 Apr 1921, Dornach

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And when this external quantitative natural science today presents modern anthroposophy with its 'sound results', it is a bit like when someone reads a poem that touches on completely different regions, and someone says: Yes, I cannot decide through my state of mind whether one can live in a poem, but I know something for sure: that two times two is four!
What is at issue, however, is that the individual sciences should seriously and courageously take the path towards a true knowledge of reality that Anthroposophy offers, towards which they are already particularly tending, towards which they want to go. And while some people today, in fruitless scepticism, want to create darkness over what they, often rightly, perceive as the limits of knowledge of nature, anthroposophy wants to start to ignite the light of spiritual knowledge where natural science becomes dark.
You know that I usually use the things that are done as “reviews” of anthroposophy only as a proximate occasion to characterize general conditions. I am not really interested in the personal attacks, only to the extent that they point to what needs to be changed in our circumstances.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Organic Natural Science and Medicine 06 Apr 1921, Dornach

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76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Linguistics 07 Apr 1921, Dornach

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Molt, as a concerned father, concerned about the misfortune that he, as the owner of a forty-year-old nobility, not only “handed over” his son to anthroposophy, but also to a completely un-noble lady who is an anthroposophist! As a concerned father, he wrote to our friend Molt, asking him to visit him.
In this brochure, he makes various accusations against anthroposophy in the most uninformed way, without providing any evidence for what he says – anyone who reads this brochure can see that for themselves – by actually only using the opponents of anthroposophy. This is clear from the brochure's table of contents: a few references to literature where one can find out about anthroposophy. One would think that these would be the anthroposophical books, but no, there are about twenty opponents, with the most shameless one right at the front: Max Seiling!
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Social Science and Social Practice 08 Apr 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
General von Gleich writes about me: “At the turn of the century, which also marks a turning point in the supersensible world of Anthroposophy, Mr. Steiner, then almost forty years old, was gradually led to Theosophy through Winter's lectures on mysticism.”
What it will depend on in the first place is this: that anthroposophy, to the extent that it can already be accepted by the student body in terms of understanding and to the extent that it is at all possible through the available forces or opportunities, that anthroposophy in its various branches be spread among the student body as positive spiritual content.
But because a sense of cohesion and collaboration were needed at the time, the existing adherents of anthroposophy had to be brought together in the “Anthroposophical Society”. These were now more or less all people who had simply been involved with anthroposophy.
76. The Stimulating Effect of Anthroposophy on the Individual Sciences: Closing Address 10 Apr 1921, Dornach

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84. What is the Purpose of Anthroposophy and the Goetheanum?: What Did the Goetheanum and What Shall Anthroposophy Try to Accomplish? 09 Apr 1923, Basel
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If Anthroposophy were a theoretical world-conception, or even a mere idea of reform, what would have happened the moment the idea appeared to build a home for Anthroposophy?
Quite certainly a man becomes religiously inclined through Anthroposophy, but Anthroposophy is not the founding of a religion. What Anthroposophy wanted to offer artistically in the Goetheanum had to come from the same impulses from which the spoken word and the song proceed.
To sum up: The building was to be an outer garment for Anthroposophy, which came wholly from the spirit of Anthroposophy, but was there for physical eyes to see» There was nothing symbolic, nothing allegorical.
80b. The Inner Nature and the Essence of the Human Soul: Anthroposophy as a Body of Knowledge and a Way of Life 28 Jan 1921, Solothurn

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I would like to express myself through a comparison, as what is to be represented as Anthroposophy from Dornach is particularly related to the scientific life of modern times and the present.
The question has been raised: It may explain the position of anthroposophy in relation to denominations if you tell us what you teach children of non-denominational parents in religious education.
You can certainly be a follower of anthroposophy and want nothing more than a deepening of the sciences, biology, psychology and so on. You don't need to establish any kind of relationship between anthroposophy and religion.
77b. Art and Anthroposophy The Goetheanum Impulse: Summer Art Course 1921: Opening Lecture 21 Aug 1921, Dornach

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Therefore, if one only gets to know what the anthroposophy meant here intends, then one will not reproach it for wanting to turn away from life in a fanciful, enthusiastic way into a Platonic world of ideas.
Anthroposophy knows very well that methods such as those cultivated in India, such as the yoga method, have had their time; it knows very well that anyone who, with a complete misunderstanding of the spirit of modern times, wants to return to old mystical systems, that such a person is striving for something that should be avoided here.
And if we look at another area in which the newer life has led to a real inner tragedy for many individual human personalities, we see how, in the religious sphere, the depth needed for a real religious experience has been lost. Anthroposophy, as it is meant here, is not meant to be a new foundation of religion! To say that is to defame it.

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