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143. Calendar of the Soul 07 May 1912, Cologne
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond The importance of Anthroposophy for present and future mankind will only gradually be realised, but insight will come when understanding has been gained of certain things indicated in occult writings though not, as a rule, studied in sufficient depth, Reference could be made to innumerable passages in books on occultism or also in writings on religion in support of what I am referring to here, but I shall mention only this well-known and very significant passage in the New Testament: ‘Unto them that are without, the mysteries are revealed in parables, that seeing they may see and not understand.
It is the mission of Spiritual Science or Anthroposophy to teach us to know and understand what is living in our environment. And this it will do, with all clarity.
303. Soul Economy: Body, Soul and Spirit in Waldorf Education: Education Based on Knowledge of the Human Being I 24 Dec 1921, Dornach
Tr. Roland Everett

Rudolf Steiner
Today it is not enough just to think about the world; we must think about the world so that our thinking gradually becomes a general feeling for the world, because out of such Education Based on Knowledge of the Human Being 25 feelings impulses for reform and progress grow. It is the aim of anthroposophy to present a way of knowing the world that does not remain abstract but enlivens the entire human being and becomes the proper basis for educational principles and methods.
This can be done only by truly knowing human nature. It is the aim of anthroposophy to offer such knowledge.
296. Education as a Social Problem: Education as a Problem Involving the Training of Teachers 15 Aug 1919, Dornach
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Doris M. Bugbey

Rudolf Steiner
It will, therefore, be necessary above everything else for an anthropology resulting from anthroposophy to become the basis for education in the future. This, however, can only happen if man is considered from the points of view we have frequently touched upon here, that characterize him in many respects as a threefold being.
Then, however, we must learn to raise anthropology to the higher level of anthroposophy, by acquiring a feeling for the forms that express themselves in three-membered man. I said recently that the head in its spherical form is, so to say, merely placed on top of the rest of the organism.
307. Three Epochs in the Religious Education of Man 12 Aug 1923, Ilkley
Tr. Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The Initiation Science that must arise through Anthroposophy does not wish merely to be an extension of our present sleeping knowledge—although men are proud of this knowledge and its outer successes have been so splendid.
Hence, the Initiation Science that would be borne by Anthroposophy is not a mere extension of facts and discoveries of knowledge, but an impulse to an awakening, an attempt to answer the question: How can we wake from the sleep of life?
308. The Essentials of Education: Lecture Three 10 Apr 1924, Stuttgart
Tr. Jesse Darrell

Rudolf Steiner
Understanding the Fourfold Human Being Anthroposophy describes the human physical body, a coarse, material principle, and the more delicate body, which is still material but without gravity—in fact, its tendency is to fly against gravity into cosmic space.
The point is not to map out a new chapter with the help of anthroposophy, adding to what we already have. Indeed, we can be satisfied with what ordinary science offers; we are not opposed to that.
276. The Arts and Their Mission: Lecture I 27 May 1923, Dornach
Tr. Lisa D. Monges, Virginia Moore

Rudolf Steiner
Thus anthroposophical spiritual science grows out of the entire earthly evolution of mankind. We must always remember that Anthroposophy is not something arbitrarily created and placed as a program into mankind's evolution but, rather, something suited to our epoch, something resulting from the inner necessities of mankind's long history.
In today's lecture I have tried to gain a viewpoint from which you can see how, for the present age, in the evolution of mankind, Anthroposophy constitutes a real necessity. 1. Rudolf Steiner, Occult Science, an Outline.
199. Spiritual Science as a Foundation for Social Forms: Lecture II 07 Aug 1920, Dornach
Tr. Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
We must consider all this from a still higher perspective. We know from the many books on anthroposophy that man is composed of a soul-spiritual part (blue) and a physical part (red), as illustrated in my sketch.
By means of this brain, however, it is not possible to think the thoughts presented in such a book as Occult Science, an Outline.11 Thus, anthroposophy is regarded as sheer fantasy. A considerable effort of will must be made to free the soul-spiritual.
191. Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture I 01 Nov 1919, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
The average citizen who works assiduously in his office from morning till evening and then goes through the habitual evening routine, will not allow himself to get mixed up with what he calls the “twaddle” to be found in Anthroposophy. It seems to him entirely redundant, for he thinks: that is something one cannot eat! It finally comes to this—although people will not admit it—that in ordinary life nothing in the way of knowledge is considered really useful unless it helps to put food in the mouth!
Living in the arms of their denominations, people say: “We do not need Anthroposophy or anything of the kind; we are content with the Gospels in all their simplicity.” They insist that this is said out of “humility”.
195. The Cosmic New Year: The Dogma of Revelation and the Dogma of Experience 01 Jan 1920, Stuttgart
Tr. Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Today the Holy Roman Congregation meets it with the Decree of the 18th July, 1919, and the chief clergy announce from their pulpits that Anthroposophy is not to be read in my books because the Pope forbids it. Information concerning it can be obtained from the writings of my opponents.
Steiner's Anthroposophical Spiritual Science. In that school ‘Anthroposophy is to be the artistic method of education’.” Those who mock and tread into the dust what is being willed out of the spirit will surely not die of hunger, even in these hard days.
191. The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman: Lecture One 01 Nov 1919, Dornach
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
Average citizens, who work assiduously in their offices from morning till evening and then go through the habitual evening routine, will not allow themselves to get mixed up with what they call the “twaddle” to be found in anthroposophy. It seems to them entirely redundant, for they think: that is something one cannot eat! It finally comes to this—although people will not admit it—that in ordinary life nothing in the way of knowledge is considered really useful unless it helps to put food in the mouth!
Living in the arms of their denominations, people say: “We do not need anthroposophy or anything of the kind; we are content with the Gospels in all their simplicity.” They insist that this is said out of “humility.”

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