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177. The Fall of the Spirits of Darkness: The Spirits of Light and the Spirits of Darkness 26 Oct 1917, Dornach
Tr. Anna R. Meuss

Rudolf Steiner
We must not base ourselves on such definitions in anthroposophy, however. Perception will be poor if we base ourselves on abstract definitions. Yes, it is possible to define the term ‘spirits of darkness’, but this will not get us far.
Goetheanism can have a great future, for the whole of anthroposophy is on those lines. Darwinism considers physical evolution from the physical side: external impulses, struggle for survival, selection, and so on, and in this way outlines an evolution which is dying down—everything you can discover about organic life if you give yourself up to impulses which came up in earlier times.
138. Initiation, Eternity and the Passing Moment: Lecture I 25 Aug 1912, Munich
Tr. Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
My dear friends, you may talk a great deal with people outside in the world about all manner of things concerning anthroposophy, and some may even seem to find satisfaction in such conversation. But when one is able to look into the depths of the soul, one knows that the soul needs to be given, though perhaps unconsciously, what it truly desires in the innermost recesses of the heart.
And many must remain unnamed for they are too numerous. My dear friends, anthroposophy does not consist merely in theories and prophecies. It consists in the will to sacrifice oneself for the demands of the present age.
152. The Path of the Christ through the Centuries 14 Oct 1913, Copenhagen
Tr. Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
There are two aspects to the picture of the future: On the one side barrenness will become more and more widespread owing to the activity of the superficial soul-forces; on the other side, as reaction against the barrenness, the soul-forces lying in the depths of man’s being will be evoked. We spread Anthroposophy in order that this shall be made known. Men should not heedlessly allow impressions however faint to pass them by, for strong impres-sions are rare. As a result of the spread of true Anthroposophy the souls of men will not allow enlightenment, when it comes, to elude them, for if they do it would be beyond their reach for several incarnations.
155. Christ and the Human Soul: Lecture II 14 Jul 1914, Norrköping
Tr. Charles Davy

Rudolf Steiner
But he remained attached to our Movement, from however far away, and his poems, which in certain anthroposophical circles have lately been recited over and over again, are the poetic reflection, as it were, of what we have been developing in Anthroposophy for more than ten years. Now he has passed through the gate of death, and something very remarkable comes from occult observation of this soul.
This was yet another case—and here comes the point I must specially speak about today—this was again a case in which all that the personality had absorbed in the field of Anthroposophy was not used only to assist her own progress, for it clearly flowed back to us again in something that we ventured to do for the whole Movement.
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.

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