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26. Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Historic Cataclysms at the Dawn of the Spiritual Soul
Tr. George Adams, Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
With the Spiritual Soul unfolding within him, man's faculties of soul must strive onward to reach their new union with the Spirit-world, a union elementary, immediate and living. Anthroposophy would fain be such a striving. [ 17 ] In the spiritual life of this age, it is just the leading personalities who to begin with do not know what Anthroposophy intends. Wide circles of people who follow in their wake are thereby kept away from Anthroposophy. The leading people of today live in a soul-content which in the course of time has grown altogether unaccustomed to use the spiritual forces.
26. The Riddles of the Soul: Introduction

William Lindeman
If ever a difficult book was worth every minute of effort it requires, this is it—all of it, not just the parts already published as The Case For Anthroposophy. Rudolf Steiner's own words, spoken in Dornach on February 4,1923 shortly after the burning of the first Goetheanum, set the tone: In the first essay of my book Riddles of the Soul, I reiterate that a person bound to contemporary civilization believes that we confront all kinds of insurmountable limits to our ability to know.
And as he begins to grapple with the ideas arising at this borderland, there opens up for him gradually, in stages, a view of the spiritual world. One must in fact take what anthroposophy offers in the way it is meant. Take this first essay of Riddles of the Soul.
26. Reincarnation and Immortality: Introduction
Tr. Michael Tapp, Elizabeth Tapp, Adam Bittleston

From the turn of the century until his death in 1925, he delivered well over 6000 lectures on the Science of Spirit, or Anthroposophy. The lectures of Rudolf Steiner dealt with such fundamental matters as the being of man, the nature and purpose of freedom, the meaning of evolution, man's relation to nature, and the life after death and before birth.
However, Steiner himself stressed that his lectures were not intended for print, and are not a substitute for what he expressed in his written works on the Science of Spirit or Anthroposophy. Therefore, if the reader finds the following lectures of interest, or if they arouse questions and points upon which he wishes further clarification, he is certain to find the latter in the fundamental books included in the series of Major Writings of Rudolf Steiner listed at the end of the present volume.
26. Man as a Being of Spirit and Soul: Introduction
Tr. Michael Tapp, Elizabeth Tapp

From the turn of the century until his death in 1925, he delivered well over 6000 lectures on the Science of Spirit, or Anthroposophy. The lectures of Rudolf Steiner dealt with such fundamental matters as the being of man, the nature and purpose of freedom, the meaning of evolution, man's relation to nature, and the life after death and before birth.
However, Steiner himself stressed that his lectures were not intended for print, and are not a substitute for what he expressed in his written works on the Science of Spirit or Anthroposophy. Therefore, if the reader finds the following lectures of interest, or if they arouse questions and points upon which he wishes further clarification, he is certain to find the latter in the fundamental books included in the series of Major Writings of Rudolf Steiner listed at the end of the present volume.
80c. Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and the Big Questions of Contemporary Civilization: Knowledge of the Spiritual Nature of Man 31 Oct 1922, The Hague

Rudolf Steiner
This darkness and this extinguishing, as I have just characterized them, is what anthroposophy, as a modern spiritual knowledge, now seeks to overcome, just as these doubts have been overcome at all times in the development of the human soul. What Anthroposophy strives for, ladies and gentlemen, is, I would say, exact clairvoyance, and by this term I would distinguish the knowledge of Anthroposophy from all the nebulous mystical views to which people in our time of uncertainties so often turn.
Rather, it carries the scientific spirit that is present in the natural sciences into spiritual research in the truest sense. So the first step in anthroposophy is to work on oneself, on those forces of one's soul that then lead to insight into the supersensible world.
80c. Curative Eurythmy: comment
Tr. Kristina Krohn, Anthony Degenaar

All this points to how inter-connected in a living way, things have to be when they come out of Anthroposophy.” The present lectures—with the exception of the one given on April 18,—were made available in manuscript form by Frau Marie Steiner in 1930.
From Frau I. de Jaager's epilogue (1952 edition): “It will soon be evident to the reader that unless you make a thorough study of Anthroposophy you will not get very far with this curative eurythmy course. Curative eurythmy arises out of Anthroposophy just the same as artistic eurythmy does.
100. The Gospel of St. John (Basle): Lecture I 16 Nov 1907, Basel
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
It might be thought that Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy desires to bring in a new religion in addition to those already existing; but that is not the case. Anthroposophy is not a new religion, it is not a new sect. In these lectures it will be our task, with the aid of Spiritual Science, to show the significance of this religious document, St.
The fountain of Truth which springs up in it is abundant and never-ending; it is so plenteous that as the evolution of humanity progresses it will reveal every new aspects of its being. Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science is to present Christianity to man from a new and different side. Now, the various religious records may be considered from four different points of view: 1.
28. The Story of My Life: Chapter XXXVI
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
The feeling was that, after having once experienced real spiritual content, one could no longer share in that which remained fixed in mere formalism. I put the matter right; for anthroposophy dare not draw any person out of the association in which he stands. It ought to add something to that association and take away nothing from it.
But this very reality is the soul-need of its members. Anthroposophy as a content of life was formed out of its own sources. It had appeared before the world as a spiritual creation, and many who were drawn to it by an inner attraction tried to work together with others.
[ 15 ] What is contained in the published writings is adapted to the furtherance of anthroposophy as such; in the manner in which the private printed matter evolved, the configuration of soul of the whole Society has co-operated.
150. Macrocosm and Microcosm 05 May 1913, Paris
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
We read to him in a low voice, or we can send him thoughts, but he will only receive an impression if we send him ideas and concepts containing spiritual life. Now the task of Anthroposophy will be understood when we realise that in this way we can wipe away the abyss which separates us from the dead. Even a soul which was at emnity with Anthroposophy can feel a benefit through such reading; for there are two sides to be distinguished in the life of our souls.
Thus from the time we grow grey-headed we experience that part of us which goes through the Gate of Death. In this sense Anthroposophy can become the elixir of life, can permeate us, as the blood permeates our physical body. Only then are Theosophy and Anthroposophy what they ought to be.
143. Nervous Conditions in Our Time 11 Jan 1912, Munich
Tr. George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
It is often said that such forgetfulness is a great nuisance in life. Anthroposophy says more than this; it shows that it is also harmful to health. Many things even bordering on very severe illnesses of human nature would be avoided if people were less forgetful.
Life itself in such a case will prove that the things Anthroposophy teaches are correct. In human nature, as you know, the physical body and the ethereal body are immediately connected.
It would not be bad deliberately to work for this in school education. Anthroposophy must here give a piece of advice to the educational world, though doubtless it will not be followed for a long time yet.

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