Donate books to help fund our work. Learn more→

The Rudolf Steiner Archive

a project of Steiner Online Library, a public charity

Search results 581 through 590 of 1683

˂ 1 ... 57 58 59 60 61 ... 169 ˃
310. Human Values in Education: Meetings of Parents and Teachers 22 Jul 1924, Arnheim
Tr. Vera Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
The situation of a teacher who is an anthroposophist, whose life is permeated with anthroposophy, is very different. His perspective of the world is continually widening; his sphere of vision extends ever further and further. It is very easy to show how these things affect each other—It is indicated by the fact that the most enthusiastic anthroposophist, if, for instance, he becomes a teacher of history, immediately tends to carry anthroposophy into his conception of history and so falls into the error of wanting to teach not history, but anthroposophy.
It will be completely avoided if such a teacher, having on the one hand his children and on the other hand anthroposophy, feels the need of building a bridge between the school and the homes of the parents. Even though anthroposophy is knowledge as applied to man, understanding as applied to man, there are nevertheless necessities in life which must be observed.
35. Human Life in the Light of Spiritual Science 16 Oct 1916, Liestal

Rudolf Steiner
The object of my remarks today on Spiritual Science, or Anthroposophy, is no more intended to be what is ordinarily meant by the word “propaganda,” than it was the object of my lecture delivered in this same place in January of the present year.
And it is these answers which Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy desires to give. Yet of course it must appeal to faculties of cognition which are quite different from faculties which are recognized today.
But it will also appear to be that individual's bounden duty never to desist, in the face of such hostility, from presenting what Anthroposophy strives to be in the spiritual life of the human being.
326. The Origins of Natural Science: Lecture IX 06 Jan 1923, Dornach
Tr. Maria St. Goar, Norman MacBeth

Rudolf Steiner
Then we shall not establish a physicized or chemicized Anthroposophy, but a true anthroposophical chemistry, anthroposophical physics. Then we shall not establish a new medicine as a mere variation on the old, but a true anthroposophical medicine.
Then the methods gained from anthroposophy can be properly nurtured. This is also the main point of our medical therapy; namely, that the old, confused physiology finally be replaced with a real chemistry and psychology.
If one does not want to recognize this potential in anthroposophy, then one only wants something a bit out of the ordinary and is unwilling to get to work in earnest.
306. The Child's Changing Consciousness and Waldorf Education: Introduction to a Eurythmy Performance 15 Apr 1923, Dornach
Tr. Roland Everett

Rudolf Steiner
5 For whatever springs from the impulses of anthroposophy must, by its very nature, find practical application in life. As you already know, many other practical activities are the outcome of anthroposophical work—for example, in the field of medicine.
As a matter of course, this goal will be resolutely pursued by all those who are serious about anthroposophy. As soon as official matters have been finalized, we shall certainly make every effort in that direction.
But those who stand behind these lies about Dornach and anthroposophy know very well that they are scattering lies. Thus, to prove them wrong would cause them the greatest of discomfort.
310. Human Values in Education: Diet for Children, Four Temperaments 23 Jul 1924, Arnheim
Tr. Vera Compton-Burnett

Rudolf Steiner
For we can only learn to know the spiritual when we acquire this knowledge in the realm of the spirit; and anthroposophy must deal in many ways with spiritual realms and spiritual beings which have nothing to do with the physical world of the senses.
It is actually a question of being able to gaze with the spirit into the material. And Anthroposophy, Spiritual Science, is in this respect largely a matter of looking into the material with the spirit.
Now idealists, so-called, very likely reproach anthroposophy and maintain that it is materialistic. They actually do so. When for example an anthroposophist says that a child who comprehends easily but does not retain what he has learnt, should have his potato ration gradually decreased, then people say: You are an absolute materialist.
197. Polarities in the Evolution of Mankind: Lecture VIII 21 Sep 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
You know that everything that is presented here from the point of view of spiritual science working towards anthroposophy is thoroughly scientific in spirit and asks to be considered as fully equal to the science relating to the physical world.
The reasoning is that no bridge shall ever be built between outer knowledge or science and anything to do with faith. Spiritual science working towards anthroposophy on the other hand is aiming to do just that, to find the way from a science of the physical, sense-perceptible world to a science of the spirit.
The strength inherent in spiritual science working towards anthroposophy should give anthroposophy the strength to gain more than just names from words—a feeling for the truth.
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.

Results 581 through 590 of 1683

˂ 1 ... 57 58 59 60 61 ... 169 ˃