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232. Mystery Centres: Lecture IV 30 Nov 1923, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
This reveals itself primarily in the gait and it can now be perceived because the capacity to see the backward-raying forces of the metals and the power to observe the connection of man with his former earth lives belong together. When people say Anthroposophy cannot be proved that assertion is really without foundation. People are accustomed to prove things in such a way that sense perception is always brought forward as proof.
It is always the case that we must first hear a truth, then other things intervene, and then we hear the same truth again from a different point of view, then perhaps a third time. Thus do the truths of Anthroposophy support one another, as the heavenly bodies in the cosmos uphold and support each other. This must be so when we ascend from the truths which are valid for ordinary consciousness to those truths which are self-subsisting in the cosmos. And self-subsisting in the cosmos is that Which is to be grasped through the knowledge given by Anthroposophy. So we must really bring together all the truths which have been given out at different times, truths which really support one another, attract one another, and sometimes also repel one another, in this way showing the inner life of anthroposophical knowledge; for anthroposophical knowledge lives on its own inspiration.
219. Man and the World of Stars: From Man's Living Together with the Course of Cosmic Existence Arises the Cosmic Cult 29 Dec 1922, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Now even supervisial study shows that man is relatively free in his relation to the course of the year, but Anthroposophy shows this even more clearly. In Anthroposophy we turn our attention to the two alternating conditions in which every human being lives during the 24 hours of the day, namely, the sleeping state and the waking state.
And this will be done during the next few days, when we shall consider the relationship between Anthroposophy and different forms of cult. 1. The Birth of Natural Science in World-History and Its Subsequent Development.
270. Esoteric Instructions: First Lesson in Prague 03 Apr 1924, Prague
Tr. John Riedel

Rudolf Steiner
When a person becomes a member of the Anthroposophical Society, that person rightly expects to become acquainted with and to experience Anthroposophy. In a certain way they will get to know Anthroposophy. This is the very thing that has been made possible by the Christmas Foundation Conference at Dornach, for there is to be complete openness in this matter, and no particular obligations whatever will devolve upon members of the Anthroposophical Society.
That is why it is necessary to emphasize the seriousness with which those approaching the school must truly grasp Anthroposophy as a world movement. The school has been divided into Sections in order to meet the needs of those coming towards it, under the present circumstances of civilization, with the intention of carrying on their spiritual life within it.
211. The Mysteries of the Sun and Death and Resurrection: On the Transformation of World Views 25 Mar 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
These exercises were not like those we speak of today in anthroposophy, but they were exercises that were more closely tied to the human organism in those older times.
Of course, this comparison of Christ with light is mentioned many times in the Bible, but when anthroposophy wants to draw attention to the fact that one is dealing with a reality, today most people rebel who have “divinity” listed as their faculty in the university directories.
But they should be taken seriously, because if they were taken seriously, then one would not only see the necessity of today's anthroposophical work, but one would also see the full significance of anthroposophy. And above all, people would be aware of their responsibility towards contemporary humanity with regard to something like anthroposophical knowledge.
211. The Mysteries of the Sun and Death and Resurrection: The Human Being and its Expression in Greek Art 31 Mar 1922, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Goethe longed to discover, to experience the human being. And basically, the whole of anthroposophy is nothing more than a world view that arises from the longing to find the human being in his or her entirety, to answer the question: what exactly is this human being?
And if you compare what Lessing said about Laocoön and the beautiful comments on it by Goethe, you will not find in Goethe's remarks what leads to a real understanding, because Goethe did not yet have anthroposophy, but you will find significant progress compared to Lessing's discussions. You will discover indications everywhere in Goethe of what I have just explained.
And that is why it can be said that, in the right continuation, Goetheanism necessarily leads to anthroposophy, right down to the last detail.
2. The Science of Knowing: Notes to the New Edition, 1924
Tr. William Lindemann

Rudolf Steiner
From Chapter 19: “Psychology, ethnology, and history are the major forms of the humanities”: After having worked through the different areas of what I call “anthroposophy,” I would now have to add anthroposophy to these were I writing this little book today. Forty years ago, as I was writing it, there stood before my mind's eye as “psychology”—in an unusual sense of the word, to be sure—something that included within itself the contemplation of the whole “spirit world” (pneumatology).
207. Cosmosophy Vol. I: Lecture IX 14 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Alice Wuslin, Michael Klein

Rudolf Steiner
The earthly I cannot comprehend the concepts which, following one another, proceed from anthroposophy: what is related about the ancient Saturn, Sun, and Moon evolutions or about the spiritual, soul, and bodily nature of the human being.
Especially those who then observe people who are noticeably affected inwardly in this way—their brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles—complain that anthroposophy is something that makes people nervous. What happens, however, if we now ask, what is the relationship between the I-culture, which man received first during earthly existence, and the culture that can be acquired through anthroposophical spiritual science?
207. World Economy: Appendix
Tr. Owen Barfield, T. Gordon-Jones

Rudolf Steiner
List of relevant literature, published or distributed by Rudolf Steiner Press unless otherwise stated: BY RUDOLF STEINER The Threefold Social OrderThe Social FutureThe Inner Aspect of the Social QuestionAnthroposophy and the Social questionEducation as a Social Problem BY FOLKERT WILKEN The Liberation of Work (Routledge R Kegan Paul)
207. The Christian Mystery (2000): General Notes

Anna R. Meuss
Taking up a suggestion he made at a later date, the terms have been replaced with ‘science of the spirit’ and ‘anthroposophy’ in these lectures except where they refer specifically to H. P. Blavatsky's theosophical stream.
207. True Nature of the Second Coming: Foreword

Mildred Kerkcaldy
And, speaking two years before his death, he said: “Anthroposophy would wish its destiny to be one with the destiny of Christianity.” When he gave his lecture-cycle on the Gospel of St.

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