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140. Life Between Death and Rebirth: Life Between Death and Rebirth II 28 Nov 1912, Munich
Tr. René M. Querido

Rudolf Steiner
Two people are living together. One of them comes to anthroposophy and is enthusiastic about it, the other does not share this enthusiasm. In fact, the more the former becomes interested in anthroposophy, the more the latter rages against spiritual science and slanders it.
In this connection there has not yet been much progress, particularly in making anthroposophy into a life force. So much has to be done still in developing anthroposophy so that real powers arise.
But in the man who gradually unfolds an understanding in his heart for such connections there will be a change. Remember that the development of anthroposophy is only just beginning. If he has understood and lived in anthroposophy, not merely acquired an external understanding of it but really lived in it with his heart and mind, then his experience will be different.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: The Influence of the Dead on the Living World 13 Apr 1913, Erfurt

Rudolf Steiner
In our culture today, there is nothing that could approach people and suggest, so to speak, from the outside that they work with anthroposophy. For those who decide to work with anthroposophy have much more to expect from the promotion of our endeavors than comfort and recognition.
Children do not have what science brings on earth, but they can absorb anthroposophy in the spiritual world. However, this anthroposophy can only reach the dead from the earth. I hope we understand each other on this point.
This is precisely a proof for us of the fundamental truth that flows from anthroposophy.
28. The Story of My Life: Chapter XXXVIII
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
[ 2 ] In Berlin and Munich there were destined to develop to a certain extent the two opposite poles of anthroposophical activity. There came into anthroposophy, indeed, persons who found neither in the scientific world-conception nor in the traditional sects that spiritual content for which their souls had to seek. In Berlin a branch of the Society and an audience for the public lectures could be formed only of such persons as were opposed to all those philosophies which had come about in opposition to the traditional creeds; for the adherents of philosophies based upon rationalism, intellectualism, etc., considered what anthroposophy had to give as something fantastic, superstitions, etc. An audience and a membership arose which took in anthroposophy without tending in feeling or ideas to anything else than this.
She was an interesting person, and for this reason it was well that a group formed around her also which was less concerned in going deeply into anthroposophy than in becoming acquainted with it as one of the spiritual currents among those of the period.
24. Additional Documents on the Threefold Social Organism: Defense Against an Attack from the Bosom of the University
Tr. Automated

Rudolf Steiner
All my writings speak with absolute self-evidence against such absurdities as that my anthroposophy spiritually transports us back to the Middle Ages, for anyone who wants to read. For anyone who follows how my anthroposophy follows on in a straight line from what I already wrote in the 1980s, it is simply ridiculous to say that I am feeding my readers and listeners with oriental teachings borrowed in particular from northern Buddhism. [ 4 ] Evidence for or against the scientific nature of anthroposophy must be presented from completely different angles than those that seem to be available to Professor Dr.
If Professor Fuchs declares what he thinks about the natural facts known to him to be natural science, that is his private matter. Nowhere have I stated that anthroposophy agrees with what he and those spiritually like him think about nature and spirit. I have repeatedly tried to prove that the facts of nature do not demand what he and the naturalists of his ilk think, but what is demanded by anthroposophy.
217a. The Task of Today's Youth: The Three Main Questions for the Anthroposophical Youth Movement 14 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
It is difficult for the elderly to be good anthroposophists after the calming element has become a habit in them. As soon as one lives in anthroposophy in such a way that one experiences things as if out of habit, this is something very bad. Anthroposophy is something that actually has to be acquired anew every day; otherwise one cannot have anthroposophy.
And the difficulties of the old Anthroposophical Society are due to the fact that human beings are creatures of habit, as we used to say when I was very young. For Anthroposophy must not become a habit. You will in turn find difficulties because Anthroposophy demands that we go beyond everything that is merely egoistic in an intellectual sense.
You will have to realize that this fact makes your difficulty more or less clear to you. For if, on the one hand, Anthroposophy can never become a habit, on the other hand it is necessary that Anthroposophy does not merge with a nature that really comes from a merely earthly one.
141. Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture IX 04 Mar 1913, Berlin
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, E. H. Goddard

Rudolf Steiner
We need not despair about them for they will be born in a new earthly life and by that time there will be a strong enough stimulus towards Anthroposophy and enough Anthroposophy on the Earth for them to acquire it. In the present age despondency is still out of place, but that should not lead anyone to say: I can acquire Anthroposophy in my next life and so can do without it now.
The man who has died may have refused to have anything to do with Anthroposophy during his life; perhaps he consistently abused it. Now he has passed through the gate of death and Anthroposophy can be conveyed to him in some way by other personalities on Earth.
The fact that can convince us of the great and significant mission of Anthroposophy is that Anthroposophy can bridge the gulf between the living and the dead, that when human beings die they have not really gone away from us but we remain connected with them and can be active on their behalf.
258. The Anthroposophic Movement (1993): The Community Body and the Ego-Consciousness of the Theosophical Society. The Blavatsky Phenomenon 11 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Christoph von Arnim

Rudolf Steiner
When we discuss the history and position of anthroposophy in relation to the Anthroposophical Society, any such reflections have to take into account two questions.
Having characterized the people attracted to anthroposophy, what has been the response of anthroposophy to their endeavours? Anyone with sufficient interest can find the principles of anthroposophy in my The Philosophy of Freedom.
Zimmermann transformed theosophy into anthroposophy, as he understood the word. But I do not believe that if I had lectured on his kind of anthroposophy we would ever have had an anthroposophical movement.
26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Understanding of the Spirit; Conscious Experience of Destiny 24 Mar 1924,
Tr. George Adams, Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
[ 12 ] In the experience of this problem of Man and the World germinates the frame of mind in which man can so confront Anthroposophy that he receives from it in his inner being an impression which rouses his attention. [ 13 ] For Anthroposophy asserts that there is a spiritual experience which does not lose the world when thinking. One can also live in thought. Anthroposophy tells of an inward experience in which one does not lose the sense-world when thinking, but gains the Spirit-world.
Anthroposophy points out, in the impartial, unegoistic observation of human destiny, an experience in which one learns to love the world and not only one's own existence.
260. The Christmas Conference : Rudolf Steiner's Opening Lecture and Reading of the Statutes 24 Dec 1923, Dornach
Tr. Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

Rudolf Steiner
Only a few days ago somebody once again said to me: If you speak to such and such a group of people about what Anthroposophy has to offer, even those who work only in the practical realm accept it so long as you don't mention Anthroposophy or the threefold social order by name; you have to disown them.
It is of this absolutely new, this primary quality that we must be aware in all the realms of Anthroposophy. Now a third example: A realm in which Anthroposophy can be especially fruitful is that of medicine.
In doing this, the Vorstand declares that it places itself within the Society in the freest manner possible: it wants nothing else but to be a group of people with initiative for the cause of Anthroposophy. To live fully in initiative for the cause of Anthroposophy will have to be the heart's blood of this Vorstand.
135. Reincarnation and Karma: Examples of the working of karma between two incarnations 21 Feb 1912, Stuttgart
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy, S. Derry, E. F. Derry

Rudolf Steiner
We do, of course, learn many things through Anthroposophy. We learn about the evolution of humanity, even about the evolution of our earth and planetary system.
It cannot of course be expected that Anthroposophy will at once make its way into life, that everyone will immediately bring it to expression in whatever he is doing.
If Anthroposophy is not taken with equal seriousness by those who profess to be its adherents, it cannot achieve for humanity what must be achieved.

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