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270. Esoteric Instructions: Tenth Lesson 25 Apr 1924, Dornach
Tr. John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
If one just exerts oneself with sufficient strength, free of preconceptions, one can grasp all that Anthroposophy will present. But straightaway in the pursuit of this apprehension by healthy human understanding, the question immediately comes to mind of whether any particular individual is in reality karmically called today to take part in Anthroposophy, or whether not.
For if and when you honestly identify, innately within yourself, the sort of common sense grasped in Anthroposophy, then this common sense of Anthroposophy is grasped in its immediacy, regardless of one’s general liking for it. And this common sense, grasped honorably in Anthroposophy, is actually the beginning of esoteric pursuit. And one should really appreciate that attaining this common understanding is the beginning of esoteric pursuit.
171. Goethe and the Crisis of the Nineteenth Century: Fifteenth Lecture 29 Oct 1916, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
This was the most intense endeavor of this Troxler, especially in the area I have indicated: to work towards an anthroposophy. One might say that Troxler appears as a kind of harbinger in this area in particular. Now just consider how things would be different if Troxler, who worked in Lucerne, Bern and Basel, had been heard at the time when he wanted to introduce anthroposophy, albeit in his own way. If that had gained ground, how different it would be now that anthroposophy, which has progressed to the point of concrete spiritual knowledge, is being presented here with a building. When you consider such things, especially when you study this wonderful case of direct anthroposophy, which was taught in the 1930s by name, wanting to appear again, and as now in the same Aarau, where this book was published, in which the sentences about anthroposophy are found as they could be at that time, a lecture is given on “Recent Mysticism and Free Christianity”, in which it is said: These anthroposophists want to make it their principle to unlearn thinking and become all Christs - if you think about it, you will get an idea of the materialistic crisis that occurred in the course of the 19th century.
300b. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner II: Thirty-Sixth Meeting 04 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Tr. Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
and perhaps some of the others, have been impertinent and that they asked how it is that people say that there is no anthroposophy in the instruction. How did you understand that? What did you think about all those questions?
Everybody told him time and again that there is no Anthroposophy in the instruction. But Anthroposophy is just what he wanted. It would have been just the thing for him as he sought the opportunity to learn about Anthroposophy.
300b. Esoteric Development: Introduction
Tr. Gertrude Teutsch, Olin D. Wannamaker, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin

Alan Howard
Knowledge of these higher worlds is, therefore, “occult,” hidden from ordinary consciousness, and hence the term “occultism” used in the opening lines of this book to distinguish this knowledge from the comprehensive term “anthroposophy,” which Rudolf Steiner uses to describe his work as a whole. Now occultism, referring as it does to something ordinarily inaccessible to us, has a strong fascination for some people.
It should be remembered, however, that Steiner had already written a book on this subject, Knowledge of Higher Worlds and Its Attainment, and the people who heard the lectures reproduced here would, for the most part, have been familiar with that book, and with anthroposophy in general. To begin with, then, it needs to be said that as these higher worlds are indeed “hidden” from ordinary knowledge and consciousness, the reader would be well advised to get some information about them before embarking on a quest for higher knowledge.
Such a study of the information about the higher worlds, already existing in what are called the “five basic books” of anthroposophy, is itself the first step to such knowledge. A reading of the first chapter of Occult Science, an Outline will do much to explain this.
121. The Mission of the Individual Folk-Souls: Preface 08 Feb 1918, Berlin
Tr. A. H. Parker

A. H. Parker
The lectures are based upon the teachings of Anthroposophy which can be found in my books Theosophy, Occult Science—an Outline, Riddles of Man, Riddles of the Soul,1 etc.
A translation of a section of Riddles of the Soul is published with the main title of The Case for Anthroposophy, with an Introduction by Owen Barfield.
260. The Christmas Conference : Rudolf Steiner's Contribution During The Meeting of the Swiss School Association 28 Dec 1923, Dornach
Tr. Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

Rudolf Steiner
It seems to me that things do in part indeed depend on how the educational movement connected with Anthroposophy is run here in Switzerland. The Waldorf School in Germany has remained essentially in a position of isolation.
It is also not a question of any particular religious creed, or of seeing Anthroposophy somehow as a religious creed. It is simply a question of method. In the discussion that followed my lecture cycle57 my answer to questions on this was simply that the educational method represented here can be applied anywhere, wherever there is the good will to introduce it.
217a. The Task of Today's Youth: What I Have to Say to Younger Members on This Matter 16 Mar 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Let us hope that the young people will not then say: we will not sit at the same table with the “old”. For Anthroposophy should have no age; it lives in the eternal that brings all people together. Let the young find in the Anthroposophical Society a field in which they can be young. But the “old”, if they take up Anthroposophy in their whole being, will feel the pull of the young. They will find that what they have conquered through old age is best communicated to young people.
202. The Souls Progress through Repeated Earth Lives 14 Dec 1920, Bern
Tr. Elly Havas

Rudolf Steiner
And in addition, we should acquire the strength to stand up for Anthroposophy, wherever we can. Anthroposophy, my dear friends, will need people who stand up for it. What appears today as opposition to our work will not diminish and will not assume pleasanter forms in the future. On the contrary, this opposition will embrace worse and worse forms. Whoever is conscious of what Anthroposophy signifies will be able through this very awareness really to find the basis from which he, in his position in life, can work in an adequate way.
If, for this reason, we lose courage, we do not really understand what Anthroposophy means for the future development of mankind. With these last words it was my wish to draw your attention to something which ought to be considered within our Movement.
149. Christ and the Spiritual World: The Search for the Holy Grail: Lecture I 28 Dec 1913, Leipzig
Tr. Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Many people who are naturally fitted to receive Anthroposophy in our present age will find it necessary to clear away various contradictions that may arise in their minds.
What I am now telling you must not be taken as offering a convincing world-picture. In the Anthroposophy of the twentieth century we have naturally to get beyond the Gnosis, but just now we want to sink ourselves in it.
then, standing on the ground of Anthroposophy, we cannot take the answer from the Gnostics, for it could never satisfy us; it would throw no light on what is shown to the clairvoyant soul.
307. Education: Physics, Chemisty, Hand-Work, Language, Religion 15 Aug 1923, Ilkley
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
In this connection it has of course been absolutely essential, above all in an art of education derived from Anthroposophy, to remove from the Waldorf School any criticism as to its being an “anthroposophical school.”
We make no attempt to introduce theoretical Anthroposophy into the School. Such a thing would be quite wrong. Anthroposophy has been given for grown-up people; one speaks of Anthroposophy to grown-up people, and its ideas and conceptions are therefore clothed in a form suitable for them.
If we rightly understand die task of humanity in days to come, we shall realize that the free religious teaching that has been inaugurated in the Waldorf School is a true assistance to this task. Anthroposophy as given to grown-up people is naturally not introduced into the Waldorf School. Rather do we regard it as our task to imbue our teaching with something for which man thirsts and longs: a realization of the Divine, of the Divine in Nature and in human history, arising from a true conception of the Mystery of Golgotha.

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