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202. The Bridge Between the World Spirit and the Physical Body: Second Lecture 27 Nov 1920, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
The only way is for spiritual science to truly permeate our entire education system and for that which is permeated by anthroposophy to take the place of what has become spiritless over the last few centuries. It is important that we pay attention to this, that we at least know for ourselves what is needed.
We want to organize a lecture here or there, but the words “Theosophy” or “Anthroposophy” must not be mentioned; it must be only anthroposophical, but must not be called “anthroposophical”, or “anthroposophical movement” or “theosophy” and so on.
Baumann, the Waldorf eurythmy teacher, recently wrote a very nice article for a Swiss women's magazine about eurythmy as a pedagogical tool. The essay was also printed; but when Anthroposophy or even my name was mentioned, the editorial staff had carefully crossed it out. These things testify that one can indeed use the spiritual material, but in the mendacious world of the present, one would like to have this spiritual material without the very forces that once had to carry this spiritual material according to the necessity of the present.
27. Fundamentals of Therapy: Curative Eurythmy
Tr. E. A. Frommer, J. Josephson

Rudolf Steiner
[ 2 ] It was evolved initially by Rudolf Steiner as a new art, out of Anthroposophy. [ 3 ] The essential nature of the art of eurythmy has often been described by Dr.
54. The Wisdom Teaching of Christianity 01 Feb 1906, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Just concerning the anthroposophic view of Christianity there are the conceivably biggest misunderstandings, and among those who are called to teach and explain Christianity are just only a very few who show real understanding of the anthroposophic striving. One said repeatedly, anthroposophy wants to transplant some Eastern teachings, a new Buddhism to Europe. This would be the most un-anthroposophic that one can imagine.
It is the task of the fourth epoch of humanity; it is the task of anthroposophy and of our lifestyle to introduce this cultural soul into humanity. We have a material civilisation, and we need a spiritual culture with the same qualities.
With it, Christianity is not anything past, but has the living strength to work on future more and more. Thus, anthroposophy, the anthroposophically understood Christianity is no doctrine, no dogma, no sectarianism, but it is something else.
69c. From Jesus to Christ (single) 04 Oct 1911, Karlsruhe
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The manner in which it is being discussed and brought to public notice is, of course, very far removed from this point of view. If it is true that Anthroposophy is little understood and liked to-day, it may be said at once that the treating of this theme in an anthroposophical manner presents peculiar difficulties.1 It is unusual in our age for the feelings to be so attuned as to appreciate anthroposophical truths bearing on the more obvious matters of spiritual life, and it is directly repugnant to our present-day consciousness when a topic has to be discussed which calls for the application of Anthroposophy or Spiritual Science to the most difficult and holiest subjects. It may be safely affirmed at the outset that the Being around Whom our thoughts are about to centre has been for many centuries the turning point of all thought and feeling, and moreover that He has called forth widely differing judgments, emotions and opinions.
Theosophy was the original term, but in later lectures Dr. Sterner changed the word to Anthroposophy.
314. Fundamentals of Anthroposophic Medicine: Lecture I 26 Oct 1922, Stuttgart
Tr. Alice Wuslin

Rudolf Steiner
These lectures, however, are given at the special request of our doctors here, and I shall try to deal with those points where anthroposophy can illuminate the realm of medicine. I shall endeavor to show, first of all, that an understanding of the human being in both health and disease can be enriched and deepened through the anthroposophical view.
This must always be remembered if we wish to understand the meaning and significance of our studies, for it applies to everything that may be said and discovered by anthroposophy about the most varied branches of human knowledge and ability. You all know—and I don't need to enlarge upon it for you—that in those earlier times man had a non-scientific (in our sense) conception of the super-sensible world.
Those who seriously pursue science also in the sense of spiritual scientific anthroposophy do not simply depart from sense-oriented empiricism; it is necessary to take such empiricism into account.
300a. Faculty Meetings with Rudolf Steiner I: Fourteenth Meeting 24 Jul 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Ruth Pusch, Gertrude Teutsch

Rudolf Steiner
What that means is that materialism causes the human being to become a thinking automaton, that the human being then becomes something that thinks, feels, and wills physically. The task of Anthroposophy is not simply to replace a false view of the world with a correct one. That is a purely theoretical requirement. The nature of Anthroposophy is to strive not only toward another idea, but toward other deeds, namely, to tear the spirit and soul from the physical body.
We must be serious about an idea often mentioned as a foundation of Anthroposophy, one of importance for us. We should be aware that we came down from the spiritual worlds into the physical world at a particular time.
15. The Spiritual Guidance of the Individual and Humanity: Lecture Three 08 Jun 1911, Copenhagen
Tr. Samuel Desch

Rudolf Steiner
Then, during the Greco-Latin epoch, they had to leave humanity to its fate, in order later to take part in guiding its development again. Today when we practice theosophy [anthroposophy] this means that we acknowledge that the superhuman beings who guided humanity in the past are now continuing their guiding function by submitting themselves to Christ's leadership.
And, indeed, what Copernicus and Bruno accomplished for space by overcoming sensory appearance had already been known earlier from the inspirations of the spiritual stream that is continued today by spiritual science or theosophy [anthroposophy]. Modern esotericism, as we may call it, worked in a secret and mysterious way on Copernicus, Bruno, Kepler, and others.
[ 37 ] Thus, modern spiritual science or theosophy [anthroposophy] has developed a Christ-idea that shows us our kinship with the entire macrocosm in a new way.
343. Lectures on Christian Religious Work II: Twenty-fifth Lecture 08 Oct 1921, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
For you, it is enough to first understand that the search for the text is absolutely necessary, and I think that with what I have presented here, you will often come to understand something like this earlier, and if you take the whole of anthroposophy, you will perhaps find a kind of key to understanding in anthroposophy, at least to begin with.
But that will be the case if a religious renewal is based on anthroposophy. Then it is impossible that one can be required, for example, by anthroposophy itself to lean towards a Catholic or a Protestant or any other confession, but one must just recognize the matter.
239. Karmic Relationships V: Lecture V 23 May 1924, Paris
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
In these three lectures I want to speak of how Anthroposophy can live as knowledge of the spiritual in the world and in man—knowledge that is able to kindle inner forces and impulses in the moral and religious life of soul. Because this will always be possible, Anthroposophy can bring to mankind something altogether different from anything produced by the civilisation of the last few centuries.
66. Mind and Matter — Life and Death: Soul Enigma and World Enigma: Research and Contemplation in German Intellectual Life 17 Mar 1917, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
This thorough grasp of the human being now elevates “anthropology in its final result to ‘anthroposophy’.” We see from this current of German intellectual life, which, I would say, drives idealism from its abstractness to reality, the inkling of an anthroposophy. And Troxler says that one must assume a super-spiritual sense in conjunction with a super-sensible spirit, and that one can thus grasp the human being in such a way that one no longer has to deal with an ordinary anthropology, but with something higher: "If it is now highly gratifying that the latest philosophy, which... . in every anthroposophy.. . must reveal itself in every anthroposophy, it cannot be overlooked that this idea cannot be a fruit of speculation, and that the true individuality of man must not be confused either with what it sets up as subjective spirit or finite ego, nor with what it juxtaposes to it as absolute spirit or absolute personality. With Anthroposophy, something is not presented that emerges, as it were, out of arbitrariness, but something that inevitably leads to that spiritual life, which once it is engaged in, experiences concepts and ideas not only as concepts and ideas, but condenses them to such an extent - and I would like to use the expression again - that they lead into reality, that they become saturated with reality.

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