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252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Johannesbau Association 03 Nov 1918, Dornach

Isn't it true that I must emphasize it again and again, because it should lead to the understanding that is to be conveyed, on the one hand, by the members of the Anthroposophical Society, but, on the other hand, by all those friends who are interested in the building.
But if you just look at this financial account, you will understand that the Johannesbau, which has now become the “Goetheanum”, is something that also requires quite a strong intervention of practical impulses.
The matter is to be presented to the world in such a way that the world understands it as simply as possible. And to attach importance to something happening differently, so that the world understands it, I think that is very damaging to our cause.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Seventh Annual General Meeting of the Association of the Goetheanum 25 Apr 1920, Dornach

The association is committed to working in close contact with Dr. Steiner, based on an understanding of the necessity of the cultural impact he has given, and out of a free will to serve this gift.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Opening of the [First] Goetheanum 26 Sep 1920, Dornach

But before my soul stands today also all that which has been done out of such a time by understanding souls who are enthusiastic for the development of the spiritual future of humanity, so that this building, in which we are now beginning the first college course in spiritual science, could be led at least up to this stage.
How could a science that aims to lead to the beholding of the supersensible in art and to the comprehension of the supersensible in understanding, act differently than to create a religious mood that leads to the experience of the supersensible?
And so we may hope that those among whom we may find understanding will help us in every possible and necessary way to complete this, our building. Therefore, and no less gratefully, I thank all those who have brought this building to its present stage from the spirit of our spiritual science.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Opening of the School of Spiritual Science 31 Mar 1921, Dornach

It expresses one of the most serious demands of present-day civilization. Under the influence of this feeling, one must consider those times of human development when science, art and religion had not yet gone their separate ways.
Science, which has flourished in modern times, has greatly enriched our external lives; it has provided us with an unlimited service in understanding the external world. It cannot, however, fulfill our striving for a unity of knowledge, art and religion.
But it is a world through which the sensory realm becomes understandable in a higher sense. Through this insight, a realm of existence is opened up that can be experienced artistically again.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Eighth Annual General Meeting of the Association of the Goetheanum 27 Jun 1921, Dornach

To the same extent that the mark accounts have understandably declined, to the same extent the prospects of our cause have gradually faded. Now there is a large loss of Swiss franc accounts, after there were no more German mark accounts at all.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Ninth Annual General Meeting of the Association of the Goetheanum 24 Jun 1922, Dornach

We could very well build the Goetheanum with them and continue to operate it if only we understood that people really join us, and don't join other [societies] after they have been convinced by us.
And that is where it stops. You simply cannot pay them under the current conditions. You have to let them go. These are the things that must therefore be taken into account.
But it must be emphasized again and again, so that something is thought in this direction after all, so that one really understands when something like this is demanded of us, that we have to work under the most unfavorable conditions.
252. The History of the Johannesbau and Goetheanum Associations: The Tenth Annual General Meeting of the Association of the Goetheanum 17 Jun 1923, Dornach

But, my dear friends, what I would say came to expression in a way that was self-evident to us at the time, when we were under the immediate and momentary impression of the Goetheanum fire, was that we did not want to give up the continuity of the work of our spiritual life.
Now there is nothing within the earthly world except human minds in which this power can find a home, can be understood; not organizations, not institutions, however beautiful or ugly they may be, can in any way prove or disprove what is really willed by the spirit.
The Goetheanum was built entirely out of inner understanding. Every franc flowed out of inner understanding for the cause. My dear friends, the following is truth, is real truth, because reality coincides with the inner core of the matter: at the moment the last lecture was given at the Goetheanum, we had a home for anthroposophy that had been built with the sacrificial pennies and sacrificial cents of those who were wholeheartedly committed to the cause.
236. Karmic Relationships II: Beings of the Spiritual World and the Shaping of Karma 18 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mabel Cotterell, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

If we are to understand the real nature of karma, it is of paramount importance to turn our attention to the extent to which the cosmos participates in the evolution of mankind.
The mineral nature, the plant nature, the animal nature in man can be understood in the light of the processes operating in the three kingdoms of nature in space. Equally, we must understand the higher forces operating in the life of man.
There was nothing left but intellectuality, which was then undermined. When the forces which are not bound up with the nerves-and-senses system but in the later part of life with the metabolic system began to work, the lower nature of the metabolic-limb system undermined what had previously come to a very fine form of expression in the nerves-and-senses system.
236. Karmic Relationships II: Influence of the Hierarchies, Planetary Beings, Voltaire 29 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mabel Cotterell, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

And if what I am now describing is to be seen and understood, one must, in the present earthly life, have passed beyond this age. Everyone who is initiated has passed the age of seven.
What is here revealed are, as we have heard, the experiences undergone by a human being after death during the backward journey which lasts for a third of the time of his earthly life.
These are small contributions towards an understanding of how karma originates and takes shape. As I said, the best way of getting to understand karma is to study concrete examples.
236. Karmic Relationships II: The Study of Problems Connected with Karma 22 Jun 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mabel Cotterell, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

I think that the meaning of what I have said will be understood. I have spoken as I have in order that the necessary earnestness may prevail in regard to lectures of the kind now being given.
Again, it is one of the most difficult of all investigations that can be undertaken in spiritual science to make an accurate survey of what happens between falling asleep and waking.
As sleep continues, however, a man begins to dive down into the experiences undergone in his preceding earthly life (see arrows in diagram), then into those of the life before that, and so on, backwards.

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