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130. The Festivals and Their Meaning II: Easter: The Death of a God and its Fruits in Humanity 05 May 1912, Düsseldorf
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond, Alan P. Shepherd, Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
But the time will come when their own religion will lead more and more Buddhists to Anthroposophy, and Christianity itself will lead more and more Christians to Anthroposophy. And then complete understanding will reign between them.
And to this soul, which must reign all over the globe as the science of the Spirit belonging to all men in all earthly civilisations, Anthroposophy should lead the way. From the 13th and 14th centuries onwards, such knowledge was cultivated in the Rosicrucian Schools.
176. The Karma of Materialism: Lecture VI 04 Sep 1917, Berlin
Tr. Rita Stebbing

Rudolf Steiner
I recently described the incredible superficiality with which a professor of Berlin University attacked Anthroposophy. I told you of the misrepresentations and slanders delivered by Max Dessoir.21 That such an individual should be a member of a learned body is part and parcel of the complexities of life today.
For the moment I refer to it in my forth coming booklet concerned with attacks on Anthroposophy. As I said Max Dessoir wrote a history of psychology and then withdrew it from circulation.
People are bound to say that here, at last, the old fashioned idea of speaking about the spiritual world is done away with. Anyone knowing something of Anthroposophy will recognize that in the case of this scholar there is a condition of dimmed consciousness.
326. The Origins of Natural Science: Lecture III 26 Dec 1922, Dornach
Tr. Maria St. Goar, Norman MacBeth

Rudolf Steiner
Now, you will perhaps recall how, in my book The Case for Anthroposophy,28 I tried to explain the human organization in a way corresponding to modern thinking.
28. Rudolf Steiner, The Case for Anthroposophy (London: Rudolf Steiner Press, 1970).29. In a reply to two lectures, which Walter Johannes Stein and Eugen Kolisko gave to defend two articles on “Anthroposophy as Science” in the Goettingen newspaper, Hugo Fuchs, Professor of Anatomy, spoke sarcastically of a human being with head, breast, and belly system.
270. Esoteric Lessons for the First Class II: Sixteetnth Hour 28 Jun 1924, Dornach
Tr. Frank Thomas Smith

Rudolf Steiner
But membership in the School implies even more, that the member recognize the serious conditions for membership—namely the basic condition that anyone who wishes to belong to the School should present himself in life in such a way that he is in every respect a representative of anthroposophy before the world. To be a representative of anthroposophy before the world necessarily means that whatever he or she does in connection to anthroposophy, be it ever so remotely connected, also be with the approval of the leadership of the School, that is, with the esoteric Executive Committee at the Goetheanum.
108. The Way of Knowledge 17 Jan 1909, Pforzheim
Tr. Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
After the opening of the Pforzheim branch we are together again and will best fill our time by immediately entering into a spiritual theme, a theme which, through Anthroposophy, shows that we don't only absorb teaching and thoughts but that our life of feeling and of experience is enriched, calmed and protected.
—We need to acquire the right way of thinking about things around us, through Anthroposophy. We see for instance the various plants, animals and minerals around us. Not only do animals equally give us joy and suffering, pleasure and pain; that no one doubts.
—It is an incorrect objection if we believe Anthroposophy has no meaning. It already has an account of spiritual-soul facts of great value. When such knowledge for example speaks about the relationship of plant suffering to plant joy then we really need to think about this knowledge and should allow such thoughts to work on us.
120. Manifestations of Karma: Karmic Effects Of Our Experiences As Men and Women. Death and Birth In Relationship to Karma 26 May 1910, Hanover
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Least of all should an anthroposophist complain at this because anthroposophy teaches us a true understanding of these matters, and thus gives us knowledge as to where the compensation may be sought.
It is inevitable that what is of profound inner significance also appears as fashion, as sensation, and this tendency can be traced in every current of human evolution. But those souls who are truly ripe for anthroposophy are those who fail to find satisfaction from external sensations, and who realise that external science in spite of all its explanations cannot explain certain facts. These are the souls who through their general karma are so prepared that they become united to anthroposophy with the innermost members of their soul life. Spiritual Science forms part of mankind's general karma, and as such will take its place there.
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.

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