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200. The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century: Lecture IV 24 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Paul King

Anyone who, like myself, has seen how Goethe's own copy of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is filled with underlinings and marginal comments knows how Goethe had really studied this work of Kant's which was abstract, but in a completely different sense.
But if one takes these two things [Goethe's Fairy-tale and Schiller's Aesthetic Letters], Schiller's Aesthetic Letters were little understood in the time that followed them. I have often spoken about this. People gave them little attention.
His articles opposing Anthroposophy were published as a collection under the title Metaphysik and Anthropasophie in ihrer Stellung zur Erkenrunis des Obersinnlichen (Metaphysics and Anthropasophy in their Position Regarding Knowledge of the Supersensible), Berlin, 1922.
200. The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century: Lecture V 29 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Paul King

Later on there developed in the central regions of the earth that which came under the dialectical-legal spirit. It is out of this that intellectuality was born. Spiritual culture was retained as a heritage from the ancient Orient.
But it had to develop further and could only do so under the influence of the dialectical-legal life, under the influence of the economic life arising from the West, and in the decadent continuation of the spiritual life which had been received from the Orient, to which the doors were now closed as I described.
Here the educational factor becomes a specifically social one. It is a matter here of gaining a true understanding of the child one is educating so that one can see that a certain quality in the child is good for this, and another quality is good for that.
200. The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century: Lecture VI 30 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Paul King

If an understanding for what one can call the reappearance of Christ is to find its place in the soul in the right way it is necessary to create a preparatory understanding for the course that the Christ-idea, the image people have had of the Christ, has taken in the course of human development.
Jesuitism already contains in itself a complete rebellion against the original understanding of Christ. The first understanding occurred in Gnosis with the remains of the oriental clairvoyance.
And even today we still see how theologians get hot under the collar whenever there is any talk of Gnosis! We have to understand this on the basis of the development of European humanity.
200. The New Spirituality and the Christ Experience of the Twentieth Century: Lecture VII 31 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Paul King

There is still plenty of unsuppressed mental-picturing life here which, at least with regard to many a specialized science, is well able to understand what this man can understand. One simply cannot speak about suppressed mental-picturing activity [in this connection].
If so, he should stay with his spiritism and mediums and keep away from things he does not understand and does not wish to understand. And he says further that what personifies Imagination is that which is evoked through the split in consciousness.
Everything depends on our overcoming theological talk about Christ so that, in all reality, we can move forward to an understanding of Him. 1 . August Weismann (1834–1914), German zoologist.
200. The Coming Experience of Christ 31 Oct 1920, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy Lenn

But this science has not been able to raise man's power of understanding to the point where man himself becomes comprehensible. There is no place for man in the scientific thought of today, so that he presents an ever greater riddle to himself.
If education up to the age of fourteen is what it should be, children on leaving school will already have the feeling: “We have a science which is born out of modern intellectuality, but the further we enter into this science, the more we learn of nature, the less we understand of ourselves, the less we understand of man.” This intellect, the development of which has been and still is of course the dominant impulse of recent centuries, completely hollows man out, so to speak, as regards his perception of self.
It is here that the inability of natural science to give man an understanding of himself shows itself in all its poverty man no longer feels himself to be a child of the spiritual world, but merely a child of characteristics inherited in the course of earthly physical existence.
201. Man: Hieroglyph of the Universe: Lecture I 09 Apr 1920, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mary Adams

We must be able to ask ourselves how far Natural Law extends in the Universe, and where something enters in which we cannot include under the aspect of Natural Law. Then we arrive at a relation which has its significance for Man too, a relation between what comes under Natural Law and what is Free and Moral.
Similarly the inner nature of Mars is qualified by its position outside the Sun's orbit, and that of Venus by its position within the Sun's orbit. If one does not understand the essential difference between an organ in the human head and an organ in the human trunk—the one lying over and the other under this line—then one cannot know that Mars and.
In these lectures it will be our task to perceive how it must be sought if we are to form aright our general understanding of the world; and the social life in which we find ourselves in these times has great need of such understanding.
How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?: Foreword
Translated by Alan P. Shepherd, Dorothy S. Osmond

Christianity can speak to every human heart and to every level of understanding from childlike devotion to loftiest regions of philosophical life. It was so in history and is still true today.
187. The Birth of Christ in the Human Soul 22 Dec 1918, Basel
Translated by Olin D. Wannamaker

And, as it comes to be known how the human being is placed in the world in a relationship of balance between the Ahrimanic and the Luciferic, it will be understood also what this human being really is in the external physical existence. Most of all must understanding come about, Christian understanding, in reference to a certain aspect of human life.
Most particularly will it be understood why the Old Testament occult conception possessed a special insight into the nature of the prophetic gift.
We can feel that it places us amid the impulses of cosmic evolution, no matter what may befall, so that we can feel ourselves in unison with these divine impulses in the evolution of the world; that we can understand them, and can draw power for our will from this understanding, and light for our life of thought.
188. Migrations, Social Life: The Migration of People in the Past and the Present 26 Jan 1919, Dornach
Translator Unknown

But something else should be borne in mind: Marxism was kindled of its own accord; but spiritual science is something which must be taken up by people in freedom. If we bear in mind that human understanding is really something which is subject to evolution, it will be easier to understand many things which are,we can really say, not only possible, but also necessary to understand, and which people really do not wish to understand.
To-day all the people who cling to old ideas, under the guidance of the so-called intelligentsia, particularly under the guidance of modern science, which has proved so unfruitful in the social field, to-day all these people stand between,the spiritual stream which should flow down to the proletarian stream and this current which flows upwards.
Goethe also believed that the ordinary understanding, based upon the senses and the intellect, could not reach the “homo”, but only the “homunculus”!
188. Migrations, Social Life: What Form Can the Requirements of Social Life Take on at the Present Time? 31 Jan 1919, Dornach
Translator Unknown

He could cherish the hope of climbing up the social ladder. Under certain conditions, these organisations were more or less useful in the development of humanity. Then the new age dawned.
Even in thought, they should be given up. People, however, find it difficult to understand that they should not merely judge the things that lie under their very nose, for those judgments will never be conclusive; they should learn instead to develop now thoughts, new ideas.
When we study the fundamental laws of the individual human organism, we come to the threefold structure of the nerves and senses: the rhythmic system and the metabolic system. And we can only understand the human being within the course of time if we understand the interplay of these three systems in the human organism.

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