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80a. The Essence of Anthroposophy: The Essence of Anthroposophy 23 Jan 1922, Cologne

And it is true that anthroposophy, by developing special powers of knowledge, wants to penetrate into areas of life that are important to people above all else, and to which science, with its great triumphs, which are fully recognized by anthroposophy, has no access.
This should be shown by a particular example, the Dornach building, the Goetheanum, the School of Spiritual Science in Dornach near Basel. Anthroposophy has been practised for a long time now, and the time has come when a number of friends of Anthroposophy have given rise to the building of a home for Anthroposophy.
It is therefore a complete misunderstanding to believe that true, genuine religious devotion, true, genuine religious experience could somehow be endangered by anthroposophy. This is another area in which anthroposophy can be thoroughly fruitful. Those who see through what is actually at stake may say that anthroposophy in particular accommodates the deepest human longings of the more active minds of modern humanity.
73. Anthoposophy Has Something to Add to Modern Science: Anthroposophy and Natural Science 12 Nov 1917, Zurich

In my small publication Human Life in the Light of Anthroposophy71 I refer to this method of research in another field; today I want to refer specifically to this particular field.
As I said, I’d have to give a long course if I were to give you all the details. Anthroposophy is still evolving today, and please do not consider it silly of me to say that it does not yet feel right to present anthroposophy in fully established courses.
71. Human Life in the Light of Anthroposophy (from GA 35). Tr. S. M. K. Gandell. New York: Anthroposophic Press 1938.72.
73a. Scientific Disciplines and Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Contemporary Science 24 Mar 1920, Dornach

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.
81. The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science: Anthroposophy and Natural Science 06 Mar 1922, Berlin
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

It seems to me that among all the various things related to Anthroposophy which our contemporaries find the most difficult to understand, is this, that Anthroposophy in relation to natural science doesn't want anything other than that the methods used by natural science which have proved so fruitful, be developed further in a corresponding manner.
The Anthroposophist will not argue in the least against something which is justified. Anthroposophy namely won't oppose the other and it is interesting to follow arguments how Anthroposophy actually admits to all which is within justifiable boundaries.
Anthroposophy and its methods will gradually gain an opinion regarding the material world which does not result in dissatisfaction.
81. The Impulse for Renewal in Culture and Science: Anthroposophy and Social Science 09 Mar 1922, Berlin
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

This is what makes it possible that on an anthroposophical foundation today's needs also find their expression in economic institutions because Anthroposophy's nature involves flexible ideas, which can teach you how you can provide your ideas with forces of growth and inner mobility and that with such ideas—as little as today's practitioners want to believe it—they can dive into other kinds of reality, which are revealed in the social life between one person and another, between one nation to another, through to entirely what has become necessary now in the artificially impaired world economy.
343. The Foundation Course: Anthroposophy and Religious life 26 Sep 1921, Dornach
Translated by Hanna von Maltitz

[ 3 ] Anthroposophy, my dear friends, must certainly remain on the foundation of which I've often spoken, when I say: Anthroposophy as such can't represent religious education; anthroposophy as such must limit its task as a spiritual science to fructify present culture and civilization and it is not its purpose to represent religious education.
Nevertheless, it appears to me to be certainly justified in relation to the tasks you have just set yourselves, that for religious activity something can be extracted out of Anthroposophy. Indirectly it can not only be obtained through Anthroposophy, but it must be extracted, and this must be said; your experience is quite correct that religious life as such needs deepening, which can come out of the source of anthroposophical science.
Catholicism has an insight into what I've often spoken about in Anthroposophy, namely the old Mysteries. In my book Christianity as Mystical Fact I pointed these things out, but, not quite, but only as far as possible because these things are as much unknown as possible in today's world and most people are not prepared for these things.
Anthroposophy in Daily Life 22 Feb 1911, Basel
Translator Unknown

178. Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis I 10 Nov 1917, Dornach
Translated by Mary Laird-Brown

Important facts are met everywhere which—I now may say—will be successfully dealt with only by spiritual science or Anthroposophy, in accordance with exact knowledge. But there they are, and people notice them. The questions are there.
On the contrary, everything outside of anthroposophy shows how necessary this conception is for present-day humanity! 1. Anthroposophy and the Science of the Soul (Nov. 5), Anthroposophy and Spiritual Science (Nov. 7), Anthroposophy and Natural Science (Nov. 12), Anthroposophy and Social Science (Nov. 14).
178. Psychoanalysis in the Light of Anthroposophy: Anthroposophy and Psychoanalysis II 11 Nov 1917, Dornach
Translated by Mary Laird-Brown

There is a chapter on this subject in my book Riddles of the Soul In it I deal with the strictures upon Anthroposophy, found in a book entitled Vom Jenseits der Seele,1 and written by that academic individual Dessoir.
That must be taken into consideration, and if it be claimed, as recently reported, that Anthroposophy recognizes three souls though there exists but one, and that Anthroposophy has therefore no reasonable argument—then the answer must be that the unity of man is not impaired by the fact that he has two hands.
80a. Reincarnation and Immortality: The Essence of Anthroposophy 24 Jan 1922, Elberfeld
Translated by Michael Tapp, Elizabeth Tapp, Adam Bittleston

And in circles which are not inclined to make exact distinctions, Anthroposophy is often reckoned among such endeavors. This evening's subject, which concerns the nature of Anthroposophy, is intended to show you how little it is justified to confuse anthroposophical research with much else with which it is often confused today.
I had to say this first, in order that it can be seen how conscientiously Anthroposophy is alert to all the sources of error which can arise. For I will now describe the ways Anthroposophy itself adopts in order to reach the spiritual, supersensory worlds.
Another field is that of the arts. Anthroposophy has existed already for two decades. At a particular time, a number of friends of the anthroposophical conception of the world could feel the necessity of building of Anthroposophy its own home.

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