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226. Man's Being, His Destiny and World-Evolution: Man's Being, His Destiny and World Evolution, Part I 19 May 1923, Oslo
Tr. Erna McArthur

Rudolf Steiner
This fact is noticed by very few opponents of Anthroposophy. In my opinion, it is essential that these things should be known to you. The opponents of Anthroposophy increase with every month. Yet they are unable to find a foothold. For, since Anthroposophy always agrees with them, but they refuse to agree with Anthroposophy, they cannot attack very well what the Anthroposophist says.
I engage in polemics against myself, in order to show how that which I affirm could be blotted out. Hence all possible objections against Anthroposophy can be found in my own books. Consequently, many of my opponents busy themselves with copying the arguments which I myself, in my own books, have cited against Anthroposophy.
198. Healing Factors for the Social Organism: Fourteenth Lecture 11 Jul 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And if people today would only listen to what anthroposophy has to say, they would not think that anthroposophy is a cult, that it is something cultivated by a few “aunts”.
Is it not actually laughable when natural science fights against anthroposophy? Anthroposophy does not take anything away from natural science. It stands before natural science and says: Yes, you are right in the field you are researching.
The rescue, the understanding of the event of Golgotha, is closely related, as it were, to the anthroposophical deepening of humanity, to a new real knowledge of the essence of man. Hence the name anthroposophy, which means: wisdom that arises when man finds himself in his higher self. You can't really find a more concise name than “anthroposophy” if you want to describe knowledge that is not about humans, like ordinary history, anthropology or the like.
260. The Christmas Conference : Foreword: The Close of the Year and the Turn of the Year 1923/24 N/A
Tr. Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

Rudolf Steiner
Ein Rückblick auf das Jahr 1923 (Rudolf Steiner and the Tasks of Anthroposophy for Civilization. A Review of the Year 1923), Dornach 1943. Planned as GA 259 within the Complete Works.
14. See Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy—An Introduction, Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1961. GA 234.15.
See Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts. Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge. The Michael Mystery, Rudolf Steiner Press, London 1973. GA 26.17.
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Sensory Experience and Experience of the World of the Deceased 13 Apr 1913, Weimar

Rudolf Steiner
It is not easy to reach him in life, and it is not good to agitate for anthroposophy. In death, what the person has longed for most becomes apparent, and it is precisely such souls that can be given the very best by reading to them.
— They cannot learn in the supersensible world what we do not give them from the earth. The thoughts must flow up from the earth. Anthroposophy is not taught in heaven, but on earth. People are not on earth to get to know only a vale of tears, but also Anthroposophy. It is often believed that one can also get to know anthroposophy after death, but this is a great mistake. What a person has experienced on earth, he must put down in the spiritual world after he has crossed the gate of death.
220. The Intellectual Fall from Grace and Spiritual Ascent of Sins: Second Lecture 06 Jan 1923, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And in particular, I would like to turn first in my thoughts to the young and younger friends who have come here for this course and who, to the greatest satisfaction of all those who are serious about anthroposophy, have recently found their way into this movement in such a beautiful, deep and heartfelt way.
Above all, it is the holy earnestness of the striving for the fulfillment of the human soul with spiritual life that has driven these young people. Within anthroposophy, however, there is talk of a spiritual life that cannot be acquired in direct contemplation in the easy way that is particularly loved today.
Today, as a result of the development of natural science, which I have tried to characterize during this natural science course, we have arrived at a point in the development of civilization where it is possible that, without any Anthroposophy, through the mere practice of the life of science and knowledge by fully human beings, young people would have to experience what I would call a kind of deep mental oppression from ordinary natural science.
306. The Child's Changing Consciousness and Waldorf Education: Lecture I 15 Apr 1923, Dornach
Tr. Roland Everett

Rudolf Steiner
But in reality, anthroposophy is something very different from what most people imagine it to be, for it springs from the deepest needs of our present culture. Anthroposophy does not proceed, as so many of its enemies do, by shamefully denigrating everything that does not agree with its own principles.
Anthroposophy points to the importance of the scientific achievements of the last three to four centuries and, above all, to those of the nineteenth century, all of which it fully recognizes.
224. The Human Soul in its Connection with Divine-Spiritual Individualities: Mauthner's “Critique of Language” the Inadequacy of Contemporary Thought, as Demonstrated by Rubner and Schweitzer 04 Jul 1923, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
For when one approaches the observation of human beings with anthroposophy and asks oneself: Is it all about thinking, that one forms abstract ideas about the external things grasped by the senses?
That is the essence of a pedagogy based on healthy anthroposophy: the teacher knows that it is not enough for the child to receive this or that abstract idea from this or that person.
After we have gone through this episode, we want to continue talking about specific topics of anthroposophy.
224. The East in the Light of the West: Introduction

Shirley M. K. GandellDorothy S. Osmond
It is the potentiality of a living, spiritual development, the treasure that lies hidden beneath the cold exterior of Western scientific intellectuality—it is this that Anthroposophy seeks to reveal: it is this to which it would awaken the consciousness and conscience of the world.
Thoughts of a universal humanity, thoughts indicating what Man is in the whole universal order—these are the fruits of Anthroposophy. And it is from such thoughts alone that an all-human society—a thing absolutely that necessary in our age for the survival of civilised mankind—can receive life and form and impulse.
It is only the Spiritual Science cultivated by Anthroposophy that reveals and provides what he requires. Hence the immense significance of this Spiritual Science for Western peoples.
224. The Festivals and Their Meaning III : Ascension and Pentecost: The Whisun Mystery and its Connection with the Ascension 07 May 1923, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
As already said, this is now known even to ordinary materialistic geology. Anthroposophy must add to this knowledge the fact that the earth has been involved in this process of decline ever since the middle of the Atlantean epoch.
Indeed it can be said that from a certain quarter the hostility to Anthroposophy started from these very lectures. What I have described, however, is one aspect of the actual effect of the Mystery of Golgotha.
That it came to pass for all mankind—this is the revelation given in the Ascension. And so it can truly be said that Anthroposophy enables us to understand the relation of the Whitsun Mystery to the Ascension revelation. We can feel Anthroposophy to be like a herald bringing illumination to these festivals of Spring, and to its many facets we have added yet another, essentially belonging to it.
84. The Spiritual Development of Man: Man's Faculty of Cognition in the Etheric World 22 Apr 1923, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
And here one can indeed come across some extraordinary products of modern spiritual life, which show the difficulties that have to be overcome if Anthroposophy is to enter into the souls of men. Anthroposophy as Academic Philosophy(“Chair-Philosophy”) Sees It When the book “Occult Science:” had been published, a well-known modern philosopher took it upon himself to analyse it.
I did nothing about it, but later found the article printed with all the mistakes and all the nonsense contained in such ‘chair-philosophy.’ Such are the trials of fate which Anthroposophy has to suffer on the way. One must be clear about such situations as they so often arise between Anthroposophy and its critics.
It is only when one really has this vital inner experience that one becomes capable of appreciating Anthroposophy in the right perspective, as seen against the merits of merely physical methods of cognition.

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