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135. Reincarnation and Karma: How can a direct conception be gained of the inner kernel of man's being? 23 Jan 1912, Berlin
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Charles Davy, S. Derry, E. F. Derry

Rudolf Steiner
People who have made some study of Anthroposophy, and particularly of the basic principles of reincarnation, karma and other truths connected with man and his evolution, may well ask: Why is it so difficult to gain a true, first-hand conception of that being in man which passes through repeated earth-lives—that being, which, if one could only acquire more intimate knowledge of it, would inevitably lead to an insight into the secrets of repeated earth-lives and even of karma?
Men of the present day could not be more remote than they are from any belief in reincarnation and karma. This does not apply to students of Anthroposophy, but they are still very few; neither does it apply to those who still adhere to certain old forms of religion; but it applies to those who are the bearers of external cultural life: it sets them far away from belief in reincarnation and karma.
Man does not even take with him the thoughts of Anthroposophy, but what he has experienced through them—even to the details, not the general fundamental feeling alone—that is taken with him.
143. Overcoming Nervousness 11 Jan 1912, Munich
Tr. René M. Querido, Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
Precisely the opposite effects are obtained, however, when anthroposophy is taken up in a healthy way. A man will not merely learn that he consists of physical body, etheric body, astral body and ego.
Strange as it may seem, anthroposophy shows it to be harmful to health, and that many upsets bordering on severe illness can be avoided if people would only be less forgetful.
What is hereby achieved is of untold importance. When, through our interest in anthroposophy, our thoughts are directed in the right way, we come to know spiritual science not only as theory but as a wisdom of life that sustains and carries us forward.
233a. The Easter Festival in the Evolution of the Mysteries: Lecture IV 22 Apr 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And in essence, all past and future achievements of anthroposophy are experienced in terms of these concepts. For all the secrets of the physical and spiritual worlds are contained in them.
We are here, after all, to find the human meaning of Easter. On another occasion I said that anthroposophy is a Christmas experience, but in all its endeavors it is also an Easter experience, a resurrection experience, bound up with the experience of the grave.
Anthroposophy must base itself upon this spirit that rises ever anew from its eternal foundations. Such is the feeling and concept of Easter that we may take into our hearts.
239. Karmic Relationships: VII: Lecture I 07 Jun 1924, Breslau
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Hence Anthroposophy must at the outset direct attention to the event of death. On the other side there is the event of birth.
We speak more correctly than is usual in our time when we say: the spiritual in man dies through birth, the physical part of man dies through death. If we find the approach to Anthroposophy through pondering on the phenomenon of death and so realising that our thinking is a corpse compared with pre-earthly thinking, our vista of man and of life on the Earth widens and we prepare in the right way to receive the teachings and the wisdom of Anthroposophy. The reason why it is so difficult for men to find the natural path to Anthroposophy is their erroneous conception of what is still present—although as a corpse—in earthly existence.
36. Collected Essays from “Das Goetheanum” 1921–1925: The Goetheanum in Dornach and its Work 24 Sep 1922,

Rudolf Steiner
There one finds the paths from anthropology to anthroposophy, from cosmology to cosmosophy. Of the arts, only eurythmy and some declamatory and dramatic arts can be cultivated alongside music.
But it works with the knowledge that a true science of the spirit can provide. No one dogmatic direction, not even anthroposophy, should be given undue emphasis; instead, spiritual knowledge should flow into the pedagogical methodology; everything that the teacher can know through spiritual knowledge should become an art of teaching and educating.
This essay has been published before in the English journal “Anthroposophy”.
141. Between Death and Rebirth: Lecture VIII 11 Feb 1913, Berlin
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, E. H. Goddard

Rudolf Steiner
It is in contrast to everyday life when with our Anthroposophy we want to give again to the souls of men something that fertilises them, that is not only a maya of the senses but springs forth as spirit.
Now, in this incarnation, each one of us can assimilate Anthroposophy in the life of soul; and what is now assimilated is transformed into faculties for the new incarnation. Then, during his life between death and the next birth, the individual sends from his soul into his body that is coming into being influences which prepare his future bodily faculties to adopt a more spiritual view of the world. This is impossible for him without Anthroposophy. If he rejects Anthroposophy he prepares his body to see nothing but barren forces and to be blind to the revelations of the senses.
276. The Arts and Their Mission: Lecture VII 18 May 1923, Oslo
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Virginia Moore

Rudolf Steiner
Ideas alone simply cannot present the world in its rich full content. Thus Anthroposophy prepares the soul for artistic feeling and creating. Abstract thoughts deaden artistic phantasy.
Abstract thoughts have murdered the work of art. Anthroposophy, on the other hand, tries to approach art out of the living spirit—as I did in speaking of Goethe's Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily.
If one really grasps the etheric or formative-force body (as it is called in Anthroposophy) in its inner vitality, in its living and weaving, in the way it arches the forehead, models the nose, lets the mouth recede, one becomes a sculptor.
239. Karmic Relationships: VII: Lecture VII 13 Jun 1924, Breslau
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Millions of individuals to-day are clever enough to grasp Anthroposophy. What hinders them in our time from coming to Anthroposophy is that in their souls they take life superficially, letting life flow past in its depths, its superficialities, its banalities.
Then it faded away so thoroughly that to-day it has come to the point—but it began at that time—when the strongest rebuke levelled against the conception of Christ held by Anthroposophy is that Anthroposophy regards Christ as a Cosmic Being, as a Sun Being. Everywhere among our opponents it is accounted to be Anthroposophy's greatest crime that it has a cosmological conception of Christ.
And now think about this question: if nothing were to remain known of Anthroposophy except the writings of my present opponents, if everything were destroyed except their writings—what would be said about Anthroposophy in times to come?
26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts 17 Feb 1924,
Tr. George Adams, Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
The Society must rather be the place where true Anthroposophy is cultivated. Anything that is not Anthroposophy can, after all, be pursued outside it.
In the Executive at the Goetheanum we have a body which intends to cultivate Anthroposophy itself; and the Society should be an association of human beings who have the same object and are ready to enter into a living understanding with the Executive in the pursuit of it.
Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts given out as suggestions from the Goetheanum [ 11 ] 1. Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe.
117. Festivals of the Seasons: The Christmas Tree: A Symbolic Rendering 21 Dec 1909, Berlin
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
And when such cognition awakens to wisdom, then indeed does this tree—by reason of our will—also become an external symbol for that which is Divine. If Anthroposophy is to be knowledge, then it must be knowledge in an active sense and permeated with wisdom—that is to say, it must ‘gild’—external customs and impressions.
It was in the year 1821 that Goethe (whom we so often meet wherever we regard the life of the spirit in the light of Anthroposophy) was bringing his Faust to its close, and in so doing he came to find how essential the Christian symbols were in order to present his poetic intentions—that, in fact, they became the only possible ones.
1 The above verses of Goethe are the first of what we might call Christmas poems, and when in connection with Anthroposophy we speak of ‘symbols’ we may well say that such symbols, which in the course of time surge up involuntarily within men’s souls, are indeed gilded over with the gold of wisdom.

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