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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.
207. Cosmosophy Vol. I: Lecture XI 16 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Alice Wuslin, Michael Klein

Rudolf Steiner
It will be a knowledge that must be felt, must be experienced in feeling. The Christianity about which anthroposophy must speak will not be a looking to Christ but a being filled with Christ. People would always like to know the difference between anthroposophy and what lived as the older theosophy.
It is missing to an even greater extent than in outer natural science. Anthroposophy has a continuing cosmology that does not extinguish the Mystery of Golgotha but accepts it, so that this Mystery is contained within it.
If we but recognize this principal contrast, we shall no longer have any doubt as to the difference between the older theosophy and anthroposophy. Particularly when so-called Christian theologians again and again lump together anthroposophy and theosophy, this is due to the fact that they do not really understand much about Christianity.
270. Esoteric Instructions: The Lesson in Berne 17 Apr 1924, Bern
Tr. John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
It is important for our Anthroposophical Society to be able to encompass the larger circle of general membership. Anyone seeking Anthroposophy in any way must be able to become a member, especially now that we have recognized the Society to be an open and public one. No obligations are attached to becoming a member except those that arise as a matter of course out of Anthroposophy itself. For members of the school, however, because it must be an esoteric school in the real and true sense, certain obligations do arise.
But so far as the school is concerned, every member must be conscious of being a true representative of Anthroposophy before the world. It must be clear to every member of the school that he or she has to be a true representative of Anthroposophy before the world.
183. The Science of Human Development: Ninth Lecture 02 Sep 1918, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
To give you an example: a very ingenious philosopher, Robert Zimmermann, wrote an “Anthroposophy” in 1882. I have already mentioned this in a context. This “Anthroposophy” is not what we now call Anthroposophy, it is more or less a concept jungle. But that is because Robert Zimmermann was not able to see into the spiritual world, he was only a Herbartian philosopher. Now he has written this “Anthroposophy”. But it is precisely in this “Anthroposophy” that Robert Zimmermann deals with the question that I have placed at the top of our considerations these days from his point of view.
And that is why most theologians get so angry about anthroposophy, because the anthroposophical side can never admit that man has nothing to do to maintain his connection with the spirit, that this can also happen in the future of the development of the earth without any action on his part.
346. Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse: Lecture XIV 18 Sep 1924, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
One can see it if one studies the opinion about the division of the human being that is expressed in Anthroposophy. Let's look at man and his spirit, soul and body. The way this division is related to the others that are given in Anthroposophy should be clear without further ado.
They have expressed one misunderstanding after another about it, which shows how difficult it is even for good thinkers of the present time to really get into Anthroposophy. One philosopher spoke about this division of man as if it were an arbitrary one that had been made with the intellect and which amounted to a formal schematism.
We have rainbow men where the main development is in the feelings. They can only grasp Anthroposophy with their feelings and not with their minds. However, this type is also present in the outside world and not just in the Anthroposophical Society.

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