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36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: Alois Mager's writing “Theosophy and Christianity”

Rudolf Steiner
He wants to develop the content of what is alive in anthroposophy, otherwise what should give meaning to his investigation. Now the whole essence of what I have called anthroposophy is immediately distorted if, in order to explain its content, one refers to earlier descriptions of the spiritual worlds.
Again, Mager's scientific approach does not lead to an understanding of the true facts, but to the assertion of objective untruths about anthroposophy and my relationship to it. Indeed, one is bound to be dismayed when one sees that an 'investigation' into anthroposophy gradually erodes the very soil in which anthroposophy is to be found.
Mager also wants to answer the question of why, in this present time, many people are striving for what he calls “theosophy”, and to which he also counts anthroposophy. And he thinks that I speak far too little from the deepest needs of the time; that anthroposophy cannot be what people are looking for.
218. First Steps in Supersensible Perception and The Relation of Anthroposophy to Christianity: First Steps in Supersensible Perception 17 Nov 1922, London
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Knowledge and Initiation, 14th April 1922; Knowledge of Christ Through Anthroposophy, 15th April 1922.2. The lectures were delivered by Dr.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy 20 Mar 1908, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
The direct connection is that it is often claimed that anthroposophical spiritual science cannot stand up in the forum of science, that it appears like pure dilettantism that a serious philosopher should not engage with. It will now be shown that it is not anthroposophy that is amateurish, but philosophy. At present, philosophy is a wholly unsuitable instrument for elevating oneself to anthroposophy.
He was a good interpreter for Christianity, even from the point of view of anthroposophy. A few concepts should show how sharply Aristotle thought. Aristotle distinguishes knowledge according to sense and intellect.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Formal Logic I 20 Oct 1908, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
And let us imagine another soul that has the opportunity to find these answers through anthroposophy, which gives us answers to the questions that the deepest souls must feel. Nietzsche posed these questions, but could not answer them.
He is proof that the great problems posed by the spirit must be answered by anthroposophy. The answer to longing is the remedy for Nietzsche's cry. And this remedy lies in anthroposophy.
From Nietzsche's soul we can feel the necessity of anthroposophy. Let us imagine him as the great questioner, as the questioner of the questions of humanity, the answers to which determine the necessity of an anthroposophical spiritual science.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Formal Logic II 28 Oct 1908, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
The relationship between anthroposophy and philosophy has already been discussed, albeit only briefly. Today we want to talk about fairly elementary aspects of so-called formal logic.
But it is precisely the knowledge of borderline areas that will be useful to anthroposophy, just as logic was useful to scholastics. The philosophers of the Middle Ages, who today are somewhat contemptuously grouped together under the name of scholastics, did not regard logic as an end in itself either; it did not serve to learn anything substantial.
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: On Philosophy and Formal Logic 08 Nov 1908, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
Dilettantism, amateurism, that is what is repeatedly reproached by learned philosophers of anthroposophy. Now the lecture that I gave in Stuttgart and which will be available in print here next Wednesday will be able to show you, from a certain point of view, how it will only be possible for philosophy to find the way, the bridge to anthroposophy, when it first finds its deepening within itself.
So it is a matter of the fact that the matter is really not so bad with the dilettantism of anthroposophy. It is true that those who stand on the ground of intellectual erudition can only regard anthroposophy as dilettantism; but the point is that on their own ground people have spun themselves into concepts that are their thinking habits.
From anthroposophy you can draw conclusions everywhere. The conclusions are applicable to life, while they are not there, cannot be applied to life, only apply to the study!
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Friedrich Nietzsche In the Light of Spiritual Science 10 Jun 1908, Düsseldorf

Rudolf Steiner
Dilettantism, amateurism, that is what is repeatedly reproached by learned philosophers of anthroposophy. Now the lecture that I gave in Stuttgart and which will be available in print here next Wednesday will be able to show you from a certain point of view how philosophy itself will first be able to find the way, the bridge to anthroposophy, when it first finds its deepening within itself.
So it is a matter of the fact that the matter is really not so bad with the dilettantism of anthroposophy. It is true that those who stand on the ground of intellectual erudition can only regard anthroposophy as dilettantism; but the point is that on their own ground people have spun themselves into concepts that are their thinking habits.
From anthroposophy you can draw conclusions everywhere. The conclusions are applicable to life, while they are not there, cannot be applied to life, only apply to the study!
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Life between Two Reincarnations 02 Dec 1908, Breslau

Rudolf Steiner
108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Occult History 14 Feb 1909, Nuremberg

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108. The Answers to Questions About the World and Life Provided by Anthroposophy: Questions on the Law of Karma 21 Nov 1909, St. Gallen

Rudolf Steiner
I know there is a spiritual world, so why should I study anthroposophy? It is unfounded and boring. It is a recurring fact that people who are karmically fortunate enough to be clairvoyant say to themselves: We don't want to learn anything more now; why should we study now what is only given in dry terms?

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