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114. The Gospel of St. Luke: Initiates and Clairvoyants 15 Sep 1909, Basel
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Owen Barfield

Rudolf Steiner
It is possible to penetrate these depths from another starting-point altogether, basing our studies on the Gospel of St. Luke viewed in the light of Anthroposophy. Let us once again recall facts in support of the statement that there is something to be gained from the Gospel of St.
It must be strongly emphasized that Anthroposophy relies upon no other source than that of the Initiates, and that the texts of the Gospels are not the actual sources of its knowledge.
But then we turn to the records and compare the findings of spiritual-scientific research with them. What Anthroposophy can at all times discover about the Christ Event without the help of any documentary record is found again in the Gospel of St.
350. Rhythms in the Cosmos and in the Human Being: Blood Circulation and Heartbeat — Mental Perception through the Lens of the Eye 06 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Automated

Rudolf Steiner
Now, gentlemen, when you hear this, you may raise a question. You see, with our anthroposophy, it is always the case that our opponents think they are making the objections. But you know the objections long before.
That is why it is so nonsensical when people say of anthroposophy that it merely collects together what already existed. Nothing is collected together, but everything is newly investigated!
But, gentlemen, then something else will come out, which is what humanity fears most. Because, you see, once anthroposophy gets through – today you can't do anything; if you want to do something practically, all hell breaks loose; even if you just say things, the opposition arises immediately, as you are well aware – but once anthroposophy gets so far that it penetrates into our schools, that it asserts things everywhere, something else will come.
349. The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity: Dreaming, Death and Rebirth 09 Apr 1923, Dornach
Tr. Automated

Rudolf Steiner
You see, there are enemies and opponents of anthroposophy who say: Oh, they are just people who want to dream; they make all kinds of fantastic things up about the world.
You see, that is it, that anthroposophy is already a great human task and has a great social significance. Because all understanding will indeed go away.
That is already so. It does not occur to anthroposophy to convert individuals. Individuals cannot achieve anything, but many people can; and anthroposophy only wants to help many people acquire the right knowledge.
192. Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues: Eighth Lecture 09 Jun 1919, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
My dear friends, this is what we must now keep in mind again and again: that anthroposophy was not intended for the selfishness of individual sectarians, but as a cultural impulse for the present time. Those who have misunderstood Anthroposophy are those who believe that they are serving it by shutting themselves away in the back room and doing something sectarian.
And anyone who applies anthroposophical ideas in a sectarian way sins against anthroposophy itself. Therefore, now that the great question of the times, the social question, has arisen, anthroposophy must put its trust in this social question.
192. The Necessity for New Ways of Spiritual Knowledge: Lecture II 28 Sep 1919, Stuttgart
Tr. Violet E. Watkin

Rudolf Steiner
I won't relate the story in detail in case someone might get offended, but in a certain town a man had occasion to lecture about Anthroposophy in a private High School. He was lecturing about modern world conceptions and he wanted to include an address about Anthroposophy because he considered it historically necessary—you see people try nowadays to be really “all round”.
The plan of the lectures, the programme,was drawn up at the beginning of the tem and a certain hour was allotted to “Anthroposophy” just as in certain hours the subject was Darwinism, a particular hour was set aside for “Steiner's Anthroposophy”. This was all drawn up at the beginning of the term. Now this man, when he put Anthroposophy into the programme, had not the very least idea of what was to be found in a book about Anthroposophy.
192. Humanistic Treatment of Social and Educational Issues: Tenth Lecture 22 Jun 1919, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
And it is particularly strange when one is repeatedly told that one can only believe what anthroposophy brings, or that one must accept it on authority. However, there is nothing for which authority is less necessary, nothing for which it is less appropriate than for anthroposophy.
For those who understand the basic laws of human life from the point of view of anthroposophy, many things are obvious, but for these others stand and mock at the superstition of others, but they are three times as superstitious as those they mock.
If we take this seriously, we will develop the kind of attitude that enables us to understand anthroposophy in its deepest inner sense. Above all, we will develop the ability to distinguish, to really distinguish.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: Economic Demands and Spiritual Insight 07 Jan 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
But this should come to him through the cultivation of spiritual life. Anthroposophy tries to give people such a spiritual life. But what does the pastor, licentiate of theology Kurt Leese, say?
What is all this surge of knowledge into the depths of the primeval world and into the distance when anthroposophy - here it says: “theosophy” - cannot say why it is better to be an ego than a non-ego.
As otherwise the human being only feels as one with his personal experiences, anthroposophy draws his attention to how he is connected in his being with the whole being of the world that can be perceived and experienced by him.
284. In What Sense Are We Theosophists and In What Sense Are We Rosicrucians? 16 Oct 1911, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
It is natural that the needs and wishes of one who comes into Anthroposophy should go very far to one side or another, and because on the other hand there cannot be the necessary insight, it is difficult to be obliged to deny things which the other considers right.
Today there need be no one who, if he has the goodwill, may not receive Theosophy or Anthroposophy. For this reason it is on the one hand something external and on the other a special task of our age.
2. Special Building for Anthroposophy at Stuttgart from an Occult Point of View, Stuttgart, 15 October 19113.
346. Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse: Lecture X 14 Sep 1924, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
However, we see that a meaning is incorporated in certain places in the Apocalypse which one will find one can only grasp if one goes into the knowledge of the human being which is found in Anthroposophy. This is definitely the case when one has to do with a revelation which is based on experiences of the spiritual world.
It must do this through its own destiny. No one who grows out of Anthroposophy is in the same position that priests are. That is a quite special position. And it is perhaps quite right to point to what is present here out of the spirit of the Apocalypse. Just consider that in every other activity which grows out of Anthroposophy today, people become dependent upon the outer world in some way through the powers that be. If someone becomes a teacher out of Anthroposophy, one can see the tremendous obstacles which are put in their way.
258. The Anthroposophic Movement (1993): Homeless Souls 10 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Christoph von Arnim

Rudolf Steiner
The reflections which we are beginning today are intended to encourage all those who have found their way to anthroposophy to think about their current position. They will present an opportunity for contemplation, for self-reflection, through a characterization of the anthroposophical movement and its relationship to the Anthroposophical Society.
It is therefore clearly predetermined in a certain sense whether or not one is led to anthroposophy. The things which are being sought by these souls on the byways of life, away from the major highways, manifest themselves in many ways.
So I found myself once again in a similar situation to the one in Vienna in the late 1880s, in which it was possible to observe such homeless souls. And anthroposophy at first grew up, one might say, together with—not in, but together with—homeless souls who had initially sought a new home in theosophy.

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