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73a. Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Contemporary Science 24 Mar 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
The topics of the specialist lectures are: on March 25, 1920: Dr. Carl Unger on “Anthroposophy and the Epistemological Foundations of Natural Science” March 26, 1920: Dr. Friedrich Husemann on “Weltanschauung, Nervousness and Spiritual Science” March 27, 1920: Dr. Rudolf Steiner on “The World Picture of Modern Science” on March 29, 1920: Dr. Walter Johannes Stein on “Anthroposophy and Physiology”, on March 30, 1920: Dr. Eugen Kolisko on “Anthroposophy and Chemistry” on 31 March 1920: E.A.Karl Stockmeyer on “Anthroposophy and Physics” on 1 April 1920: Dr. Oskar Schmiedel on “Anthroposophy and the Theory of Colors” on April 6, 1920: Dr. Roman Boos on “Anthroposophy and Jurisprudence” on April 7, 1920: Dr.
75. The Relationship between Anthroposophy and the Natural Sciences: Natural Science and Anthroposophy 04 Jun 1921, Zürich

Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Steiner: Dearly beloved! When a distorted image of anthroposophy is so often created and this distortion is then fought, so that in this fight little of what anthroposophy really represents is actually encountered, it is probably because that today many people still understand anthroposophy as something that stands, as it were, in the middle between science in the strict sense of the word on the one hand and the various religious views on the other.
However much it is the case that what comes to light through anthroposophy touches people's religious feelings and religious sentiments, anthroposophy itself did not arise from any religious impulse, but rather it emerged from the natural science of our time, from a natural scientific world view.
All nebulous movements emanate from the ignorabimus and agnosticism. Anthroposophy does not want to be fog, Anthroposophy wants to be light, Anthroposophy wants to be the continuation of the light that it itself recognizes in modern science as a truly spiritual light that carries humanity forward.
34. Anthroposophy and the Social Question: Anthroposophy and the Social Question

Rudolf Steiner
It is true that one must first study Anthroposophy itself before one can clearly perceive this. And therefore for those who are unacquainted with Anthroposophy, no “proof” of the fact can be adduced. One can only say: First become acquainted with Anthroposophy, and then all this too will be clear to you. [ 9 ] The great mission of Anthroposophy in our age will first become evident when Anthroposophy works like a leaven in every part of life.
At any rate there is nothing in Anthroposophy to hinder anyone from being every whit as good a human being as others who have no knowledge of Anthroposophy, or will have none.
36. The Scientific Method of Anthroposophy 19 Feb 1922,
Tr. Lisa D. Monges

Rudolf Steiner
If this be true, say those passing superficial judgment, then Anthroposophy places itself outside of science and may claim for itself, at best, certainty of belief. Anyone who talks that way is not turning vigorously from a consideration of nature back to a consideration of the human being.
From habit they give themselves up to the latter and reject what has not become a fixed habit. Anthroposophy asks: Why do we accept as certain the knowledge of physics and chemistry? It sees the reason in a particular mode of soul experience.
And it does not deviate from it even when, through transformed thinking, it tries to gain truths concerning life, soul, and spirit. For this reason, Anthroposophy is fully able to acknowledge the mode of thought which in physics and chemistry has led to the most significant results in the modern age.
82. Anthroposophy and the Visual Arts 09 Apr 1922, The Hague
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
And this conviction has led, of itself, to Eurhythmy: the branch of art that has grown upon the soil of Anthroposophy. What the human being does in speech and song, through a definite group of organs, as a revelation of his being, can be extended to his whole being, if one really understands it.
And Anthroposophy must be able to see more than what evokes the tragic mood, what is now exultant and all that lies between.
What I have said to-day is only intended to be once more a cursory indication of the natural transition from Anthroposophy as a body of ideas to Anthroposophy as immediate, unallegorical, unsymbolical plastic art, creating in forms—as is our aim.
215. Philosophy, Cosmology and Religion: The Three Realms of Anthroposophy 06 Sep 1922, Dornach
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Doris M. Bugbey, Maria St. Goar, Stewart C. Easton

Rudolf Steiner
I would like to speak to you about philosophy, cosmology and religion, in a manner that shows how through anthroposophy they are to gain a certain spiritual form. Philosophy was once the all-inclusive knowledge, which, in ancient times, threw light on all the separate areas of reality that men experienced.
Out of this knowledge a true experience of philosophy can come. The first step in anthroposophy therefore is to bring out the facts concerning man's etheric organism. I want to proceed in three steps and would like to ask Dr.
Then we will also be able to attain a true cosmology that includes man. This is to be the second step for anthroposophy. After Dr. Sauerwein has been so kind as to translate the second part, I shall discuss how matters stand with the third step in the last segment of my lecture.
21. The Case for Anthroposophy: The Philosophical Bearing of Anthroposophy
Tr. Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
From both of these epistemological approaches, in the sense of anthroposophy, to the concept of the existentially psychic (and they are not the only possible ones), it becomes evident how sharply this concept is divorced from visions, hallucinations, mediumship or any kind of abnormal psychic activity. For the origin of all these abnormalities must be sought in the physiologically determinable. But the psychic, as anthroposophy understands it, is not only something that is experienced in the mode of normal and healthy consciousness; it is something that is experienced, even while representations are being formed, in total vigilance—and is experienced in the same way that we remember a happening undergone earlier in life, or alternatively in the same way that we experience the logically conditioned formation of our convictions. It will be seen that the cognitive experience of anthroposophy proceeds by way of representations and ideas that maintain the character of that normal consciousness with which, as well as with reality, the external world endows us; while at the same time they add to it endowments leading into the domain of the spirit.
25. Cosmology, Religion and Philosophy: The Three Steps of Anthroposophy 06 Sep 1922, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
This must mark the first of the steps to be taken by Anthroposophy. [ 8 ] Cosmology once upon a time showed man how he is a member of the universe.
[ 10 ] So the second step of Anthroposophy is marked out. [ 11 ] Religion in its original meaning is based on that experience whereby man feels himself independent not only of his physical and etheric nature, the cause of his existence between birth and death, but also of the Cosmos, in so far as this has an influence on such an existence.
[ 15 ] So is the third step of Anthroposophy worked out. [ 16 ] It will now be the task of the subsequent lectures to show the possibility of acquiring knowledge of the etheric part of man, that is to say, of clothing Philosophy with reality; it will be my further business to point out the way to the knowledge of the astral part of man, that is to say, to demonstrate that a Cosmology is possible which embraces humanity; and finally will come the task to lead you to the knowledge of the ‘true Ego’, in order to establish the possibility of a religious life, which rests on the basis of knowledge or cognition.
21. The Riddles of the Soul: The Philosophical Validation of Anthroposophy
Tr. William Lindemann

Rudolf Steiner
For, the source of all such abnormalities must be sought in the physiological realm. The soul element described by anthroposophy, however, is not only of the same kind as our soul experiences in normal healthy consciousness; within the full waking consciousness of mental picturing, we can also experience this soul element in a way similar to that of remembering past events in our life, or of arriving at convictions that are logically determined. From this we can see clearly that anthroposophy's cognitive experience runs its course in mental pictures that retain the character of ordinary consciousness which is endowed with reality from the outer world; and to this ordinary consciousness anthroposophy adds abilities that lead into the spiritual realm; everything of a visionary, hallucinatory nature, on the other hand, lives in a consciousness that adds nothing to our ordinary one but that takes abilities away from this ordinary consciousness, causing our state of consciousness to sink below the level present in conscious sense perception.
217a. The Task of Today's Youth: Anthroposophy and the Youth Movement 08 Sep 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
It is not a matter of now making a programmatic decision to do this or that. Anthroposophy can only work in such a way that it can be incorporated into every form. It is best if you do not approach it from the outside, changing the existing arrangements, but rather you should think of carrying Anthroposophy into it as such. Anthroposophy is a secret power that could gradually enter everything. A participant: Anthroposophists always say that hiking will lead to enthusiasm.
I am giving a specific example! People want to cultivate Anthroposophy in secret, but they shrink from public appearances. But anthroposophy can and must work on a large scale; only then can it prevail.

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