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262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 33a. Enclosure to Letter to Marie 07 May 1905, Karlsruhe

Those who then really perceive something of this spiritual mission will, from the knowledge, understand how they should relate to our great pioneer. He also learns to understand that a person who has such a mission must necessarily first accept misunderstanding and even defamation.
It was infinitely difficult to convey the truth to a materialistic way of thinking and attitude in such a way that it could be understood. How H.P.B. had to act was dictated by the measure of understanding that the time could bring her.
s opponents, but it cannot be taken seriously by those who really understand. All the accusers' houses of cards will gradually collapse if one has acquired an understanding, even to a moderate degree, of her spiritual power and the nature of her mission.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 33b. Letter from Marie von Sivers to Edouard Schuré 07 Oct 1905,

Nor would I have believed that a fairly strong dose of intelligence, as is characteristic of our time, could, as a result of self-love, go hand in hand with a complete lack of real understanding, 'insight'. This 'insight' is more likely to be found in the minds of the more simple-minded, whose eyes vanity does not close, whereas the clever can be astonishingly narrow-minded and easily fall prey to their own conceit.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 36. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 14 Nov 1905, Basel

Ita Wegman 51 infected with it. I would even understand her timidity, since she is about to take her exam after all, and the professors in Zurich have their shoes tanned by the same company as everywhere else.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 40. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 20 Nov 1905, Kolmar

Ostermann 57 was expecting me and then led me to an ice-cold room, almost as bad as Hubo's. I froze for hours and really didn't understand what was going on. Because there was even heating in the corridors. Just not in my room. Then in the evening I said quite dryly that this was not acceptable.
It is really not the people's fault. But they understand nothing of the conditions of intellectual work. So today is Strasbourg, tomorrow Colmar again.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 41. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 25 Nov 1905, Nuremberg

For a time that cannot see forms and create them, must necessarily evaporate into a non-essential abstraction, and reality must confront this merely abstract spirit as a spiritless aggregation of matter. If people are truly capable of understanding forms, for example, the birth of the soul from the cloud-like ether of the Sistine Madonna, then there will soon be no more mindless matter for them.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 43. Enclosure to a (non-existant) Letter to Marie 05 Jan 1906, Berlin

They then also emerge again as one body here, although the tendency to split has already become apparent in the third round of the earth. Now, during the fourth round, the earth is undergoing the rupa and astral states, and is then preparing to become physical again. The development of this physical state in the three realms mentioned is the responsibility of the “spirits of form”.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 45. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 09 Jan 1906, Lugano

This also showed once again what an obstacle the cobweb of learned modern concepts is for an unbiased grasp of spiritual reality. This is only too understandable for real occultism. One has only to consider the nature of this learned world of concepts. It is, after all, entirely derived from spatial-physical reality.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 46. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 13 Jan 1906, Kolmar

Therefore, I ask you not to wait for me and also to tell the ladies not to wait for me under any circumstances. I will arrive alone and be at Stinde-Kalckreuth's around a quarter past 8. All my love, Rudolf 4. It can only be Albert Schweitzer with his book “From Reimarus to Wrede”, 1906, 2nd edition under the title ” History of the Life-Jesus-Research, 1913.5. In No. 28 (September 1905) of “Lucifer-Gnosis”, reprinted in “Lucifer-Gnosis 1903-1908”, GA 34.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 47. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Berlin 25 Jan 1906, Dresden

From the Theosophy he seems to have gained a little better understanding after the Marburg lecture. I will tell you about Sunday evening in Kassel later. The afternoon (Monday) at Noll 11 seems to have been fruitful.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 49. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Donndorf 14 Aug 1906, Berlin

So today's confirmands consider themselves entitled to determine the full extent of world knowledge from their own sovereign wisdom. That the boy is like that is understandable when you consider the current influences on children, but that the father wants the boy to be confirmed by a church whose confession the confirmand does not share is something that anyone who can understand should understand, someone who wants to bathe without getting wet.

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