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343. The Foundation Course: Prayer and Symbolism 30 Sep 1921, Dornach
Tr. Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
It is important that the question which we had yesterday and actually have been considering during the past days from the side of Anthroposophy, we now approach from a religious side, but again I don't want to do it through definitions and explanations but in a more concrete way.
When one speaks from the side of knowledge, one deals mainly with the content; when one speaks about Anthroposophy as a religious element, my dear friends, then we need to pay attention to Goethe's words: Not What we think, but more How we think!—and for this reason I said yesterday, Anthroposophy inevitably, as is its character, leads to a religious experience, it flows into a religious experience through the How, how its content is experienced.
343. The Foundation Course: Insights into the Mystery of Golgotha 01 Oct 1921, Dornach
Tr. Hanna von Maltitz

Rudolf Steiner
[ 10 ] What Anthroposophy wants to developed is regaining the supersensible substance of knowledge; the kind of supersensible knowledge which has died in dogma; Anthroposophy wants to enable the achievement of a new understanding for the Mystery of Golgotha, because the dogmas of the Catholic Church can no longer penetrate into an understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha.
He saw how the intellect contained within itself the danger that man also strangulates his soul from the divine, how man succumbs to the death of the soul. That which is devoured by the intellect—in anthroposophy we call it "becoming Ahrimanic"—which totally enters into the intellect, becomes devoured, it is cut off from the divine.
338. How Can We Work for the Impulse of the Threefold Social Order?: Third Lecture 13 Feb 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
The Berliner Tageblatt has an article fabricated for it in which all kinds of nonsense 'occultists' are mentioned, and in the middle of it stands Anthroposophy, which has nothing to do with it. But people spare themselves the trouble of dealing with Anthroposophy by simply categorizing it as nonsense. Of course, the nonsense that is in there is something that everyone can understand, so there is no need to bother with anthroposophy. It is indeed being spread internationally; you come across it everywhere, in English newspapers, everywhere.
228. The Spiritual Individualities of Our Planetary System: Lecture III 29 Jul 1923, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
There is truly no need to rebuke opponents who say, in the field of anthroposophy, that we have great physics. But physics thrives on the denial of the artistic. It thrives on the denial of the artistic in each individual, because it has arrived at a way of treating the world in which the artist no longer cares about the physicist.
And so I have tried in the most diverse places – for example, when I showed you yesterday how the concepts that were still there thirty or forty years ago are now being dissolved by the theory of relativity, simply melting away like snow in the sun – I have tried to show you how everywhere you look there are calls to really strive towards anthroposophy. For, as the philosopher Eduard von Hartmann says: If the world is as we have to imagine it – that is, as he imagines it in the 19th century – then we must actually, because we cannot endure it in it, blow it up into space, and it is only a matter of our being so far that we can carry it out.
If we allow ourselves to become ensnared in such sectarianism, as there were strong tendencies towards during the delegates' meeting, then we will not achieve the great task of anthroposophy in the present, and this must be achieved, because 'it is a human task. Having said this, I would like to take leave of you for a few weeks and we will announce the next events in due course.
346. Lectures to Priests The Apocalypse: Lecture XI 15 Sep 1924, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
You should try to feel your way into this coincidence with what can really be gained from Anthroposophy or can gradually be disclosed through Anthroposophy. For one will be able to speak of comets and one can already speak about them today to the effect that Satan is lying in wait for them in the cosmos, and that he wants to use their orbits to replace cosmos with chaos.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture II 09 Sep 1924, Dornach
Tr. Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
Let us for a moment review the picture of a human being that Anthroposophy gives us. The human being stands before us in a physical body, which has a long evolution behind it, three preparatory stages before it became an earthly body—as is described in my book An Outline of Esoteric Science.
Naturally it is thought in materialistic fashion today that if there's something new to be included, you must tack another half-year onto the course! Out of the knowledge that Anthroposophy gives us, we can say that the human being stands before us in physical, etheric and astral bodies, and an ego organization.
276. The Arts and Their Mission: Lecture IV 03 Jun 1923, Dornach
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Virginia Moore

Rudolf Steiner
On the other hand, it stresses the truth that religious life leads far beyond the facts observable by a person with only ordinary earthly consciousness. For Anthroposophy recognizes that the Mystery of Golgotha, the earth-life of Christ Jesus, though placed among historical events comprehensible to the senses, can be comprehended in its fulness only supersensibly.
Such a personality represents the transition from an age still spiritually vital, at least in memory, to an age blinded by a brilliant natural-scientific world-conception and less brilliant life-practice; an age which will never find the spirit without the impetus which comes from direct spiritual perception, which is to say, from imagination, inspiration and intuition, as striven for by Anthroposophy. Look, from this point of view, at the tremendous seriousness ensouling these writers.
108. Hegel's Theory of Categories 13 Nov 1908, Berlin
Tr. Rick Mansell

Rudolf Steiner
This lecture is the eighth of nineteen lectures in the volume Answers to Universal Questions and Life Questions through Anthroposophy. This lecture is also known as The Categories of Hegel.1 The lecture today will be put into such a form, that through particular remarks connected with the elucidations you will be able to see where the bridge is to be made between Anthroposophy and Philosophy, and how certain philosophical concepts and knowledge can be of importance in the practice of spiritual science.
109. Rosicrucian Esotericism: Rosicrucian Esotericism 03 Jun 1909, Budapest
Tr. Helen Fox

Rudolf Steiner
Such people can find satisfaction in anthroposophy. This new form of communication springs from observation of a need of humanity in the modern age.
To realize the practical effect of theosophy you may turn to my essay, The Education of the Child in the Light of Anthroposophy. It is impossible for you to under-stand its content without Rosicrucian theosophy, which must not remain theory but become a helping hand in practical life.
191. Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism: A Different Way of Thinking is Needed to Rescue European Civilization 11 Oct 1919, Dornach
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
For it is this true reality that the spiritual science of Anthroposophy has to seek and find. Therefore, the spiritual science of Anthroposophy must not be taken after the pattern of what people were often pleased to call “religious persuasions.”

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