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68b. Carnegie and Tolstoy 06 Nov 1908, Münchenstein
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
More and more will humanity find these contrasts and, if another spiritual stream did not appear to reflect again the deep, underlying, spiritual sources making them manifest in the material world, we could not follow Anthroposophy. Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science leads us into the very depths of spiritual life. It not only traces spiritual life in those powerful impulses which do not unite with deed and fact, it also seeks for it in the concrete, and therefore understands how the spiritual flows into the material.
And when Anthroposophy shall have accomplished this aim, her true place in modern culture, she will have found that which she is seeking to establish. Anthroposophy desires no theoretical proofs, no speculation; her aim is to prove and demonstrate the truth of her statements in life itself.
112. The Gospel of St. John: The Baptism with Water and the Baptism with Fire and Spirit 30 Jun 1909, Kassel
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Now it is precisely the anthroposophists who maintain that anthroposophy invariably improves the health and even prolongs life. A fine doctrine, that: the man dies at the age of forty-three!
They do not know when he would have died without anthroposophy. Maybe he would have only lived to be forty: if a man's life span were forty years lacking anthroposophy, it might well reach forty-three with its aid. When anthroposophy will have come to permeate life in general its effects will not fail to become manifest. True, if a man wants to see all its fruits in one life between birth and death he is simply an egotist: he wants everything for his own selfish purposes.
197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: Lecture VI 25 Jul 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Today I want above all to refer to something that can help us to find the right inner attitude, as it were, to the spiritual-scientific movement that has anthroposophy for its goal. There has now been scientific evidence that Western culture is in a decline—you know about the book by Oswald Spengler.
Some professor of anatomy49 gets hold of this and reads it out to an audience which he himself has prepared by asking them to bring children's trumpets and rattles when someone is going to talk about genuine anthroposophy. So a lecture on anthroposophy is given. Then the professor has the word and reads out something like this, having somehow got hold of it, and the students use the trumpets and rattles they have brought along to produce the kind of scientific argument that has become customary in those circles.
[Discovering the reality of the riddles of human nature through the spirit. Philosophy and Anthroposophy. Four tales (from the Mystery Plays). Calendar of the Soul. The Soul's Awakening, scenes 7 and 8].
150. The World of the Spirit and Its Impact on Physical Existence: Two Currents within the Ongoing Development of the Human Being Must be Taken into Account in Education 14 Mar 1913, Augsburg

Rudolf Steiner
If you give a public anthroposophical lecture today in our present time - and what is said here in relation to a public lecture must be taken into account in everything we bring from anthroposophy to the outside world, to people who do not join an anthroposophical Society, then we must always bear in mind that although the souls of people today have a great longing for anthroposophy in their depths, in their subconscious, there is very little connection with spiritual truths in those parts of their soul life of which they themselves are aware.
It is extremely important that we do not get too casual about these things in our daily lives, for we will gradually lose the best and most effective that anthroposophy can give us. The more we use anthroposophical words in our daily lives, the more we deprive ourselves of the possibility that anthroposophy will truly become something that supports our soul and deeply permeates our soul.
That is the very least. What we are to acquire from anthroposophy is a certain mood of the soul, a basic feeling for human life, what is actually there in these depths of the soul.
118. The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric: The Return of Christ 18 Apr 1910, Palermo
Tr. Barbara Betteridge, Ruth Pusch, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin, Margaret Ingram de Ris

Rudolf Steiner
To be anthroposophists, it is not enough to understand anthroposophy in a theoretical way; we must bring it to life within ourselves. It will be necessary to observe this great event with complete exactness.
For the true anthroposophist, it will be a test to arm himself against such attempts and, instead of debasing human feeling in such a way, to raise it up to the spiritual worlds. Those who understand anthroposophy in the right way will say to these false messiahs of the twentieth century: you have announced the appearance of Christ on the physical plane, but we know that Christ will manifest Himself only in an etheric form.
In the near future it will have advanced so far in this sign that it will be the outer symbol for the appearance of Christ in the etheric body. You will see, therefore, that anthroposophy does not expound to the world theoretical teaching but rather that the signs of the times have given us the task of teaching anthroposophy.
344. The Founding of the Christian Community: Nineteenth Lecture 22 Sep 1922, Dornach

The same person who wrote this booklet, which is good in some respects, about the path of the human soul in the presence of God, recently wrote a condemnation of anthroposophy in the sense that he denies that today's humanity, without exception, has any possibility at all of coming to the spiritual through the paths that the human soul can take.
From such a point of view, Mager, the Benedictine monk, cannot, of course, see anything in anthroposophy but what he sees in it. These are indeed characteristic words that he speaks, but they are words of complete darkness of the human soul. He says the following words: “My innermost scientific conviction is that Steiner's Anthroposophy cannot be characterized otherwise than as the skillful systematization of hallucinations into a world view.” — And what emerges from Anthroposophy in this way, he must reject as coming from hallucinations.
130. The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric: The Etherization of the Blood 01 Oct 1911, Basel
Tr. Barbara Betteridge, Ruth Pusch, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin, Margaret Ingram de Ris

Rudolf Steiner
If only he has truly sharpened his vision through engaging himself with anthroposophy, he may become aware that suddenly someone has come near to help him, to make him alert to this or that.
Those who desire evolution to succeed must acquire understanding of the spiritual life through what we today call anthroposophy. The cultivation of anthroposophy thus becomes a duty; knowledge becomes something that we actually experience, something toward which we have responsibility.
Once the foundation has been acquired, however, it endures, and then Christ becomes visible also during the period between death and the new birth. Anthroposophy is thus not only something we learn for our physical life but also has value when we have laid aside the physical body at death.
209. Nordic and Central European Spiritual Impulses: Father-consciousness and Christ-consciousness 07 Dec 1921, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
But this is shrouded in the greatest misunderstanding, especially among theologians. They even find it 'offensive' that anthroposophy connects the Christ with the sun and with the outer cosmic world in general. Why do they find this offensive?
But we know that theology has become materialistic, and therefore it can only see the material world in the cosmos. But anthroposophy shows how this material world is spiritualized everywhere. However, theology is unable to detach itself from the material, and therefore it feels offended when anthroposophy speaks of Christ as a being of the sun.
But the mysterious is not lost by being brought to view; and anthroposophy aims to lead from that which is only communicated or believed to that which makes itself understood in contemplation.
300a. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Third Meeting 26 Sep 1919, Stuttgart
Tr. Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
Particularly when we begin with anthroposophy, we dare not develop anything inappropriate, certainly not develop anything too early. We will, therefore, have two stages.
The verses contained in prayer books are often trivial, therefore, you should use verses from the Bible and also those verses we have in anthroposophy. In anthroposophy, we have many verses you can use well in this anthroposophical religious instruction.
Second, we need to comprehend our responsibility toward anthroposophy as well as the social movement. And, third, something that we as anthroposophists must particularly observe, namely, our responsibility toward the gods.
300a. Eurythmy as Visible Singing: Introduction to the Third English Edition
Tr. Alan P. Stott

Alan Stott
‘The development of anthroposophical activity into the realm of art resulted out of the nature of anthroposophy.’ The art of eurythmy, however, occupies a unique position as the newly-born daughter of anthroposophy itself.
Art—‘even the nature of major and minor melodies’ - can bring life to the connection between man and cosmos (in other words, anthroposophy); to what might appear as dead form. Steiner warns ‘that these things are not a skeleton of ideas!’
Steiner claims that this lecture, already in 1888, contains ‘a sound foundation for anthroposophy and the anthroposophical way of thinking’ (Preface to the second edition, 1919). The lecture suggests an acid test for what is truly new.

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