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182. The Reappearance of Christ in the Etheric: The Three Realms of the Dead: Life Between Death and a New Birth 29 Nov 1917, Bern
Translated by Barbara Betteridge, Ruth Pusch, Diane Tatum, Alice Wuslin, Margaret Ingram de Ris

Obviously, this also makes it difficult to come to an understanding with the dead. One can thus say that this realm entered by the dead as their second realm gradually widens.
I am often reproached for seeming to be unfriendly to the natural sciences, even in their radical developments, a reproach that belongs to the most old-fashioned prejudices imaginable, because whoever understands the course of the evolution of the earth understands that the natural sciences cannot be proved wrong and that, on the contrary, they will spread further and further.
Humanity should be urged not to grasp this important event on earth in a physical-historical way but to try to approach it with a spiritual understanding. He who will not grasp the Mystery of Golgotha through spiritual understanding of earthly evolution, without historical documents, will never be able to grasp it.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: Social Aspiration and Proletarian Demands 10 Apr 1919, Münchenstein

So, dear attendees, it is better to accept being less understood at first and to present what can serve the new era than to have to repeat the old over and over again.
First and foremost, we must imbue ourselves with social understanding! For it is the lack of social understanding that has brought about the present terrible situation.
And even if it still has to be said many times today: In these souls there is an underlying understanding of what the future must bring. I believe in this fresh intelligence because it is healthy, not decadent.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Impulse for the Threefold Social Order not “mere idealism”, but an Immediate Practical Demand of the Moment 02 Jun 1919, Tübingen

Today, it is necessary to clearly define this primal structure of economic life in order to make social understanding possible. When a person enters into economic life – he must produce for himself and for other people.
In order to lead his audience to a proper understanding of our present circumstances, Steiner first revealed the roots of proletarian sentiment, which he knows not only as a sensitive observer of the people's soul, but also from his own experience.
In this foundation, we have the germ for building a free intellectual life. For all these organizations, the undersigned is willing to accept correspondence and forward it to Stuttgart. Hermann Heisler
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Supernatural Essence of Man and the Development of Humanity 26 Jul 1919, Mannheim

The spiritual researcher is told: “You are offering something understandable; well, yes, but I won't be able to offer you anything that is so easy to understand, as many still offer today's people, who start from the inner comfort of the soul, which, with regard to the highest goals of spiritual human striving, exists in today's people.
And that is precisely why one is still little understood today because this way is unfamiliar. What is understood better, at least one believes this, is simple, unadorned faith.
In the case of the Greeks and Romans, the spiritual-soul qualities were such that one can say: The powers of understanding and feeling developed more instinctively; instinctive feeling, instinctive logic, instinctive understanding, instinctive powers of research are found in that period.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: Freedom for the Mind, Equality for the Law, Fraternity for Economic Life 28 Jul 1919, Mannheim

In short, any branch of production in economic life, harnessed to democracy, becomes an impossibility, because then the one who does not understand it and does not understand it or who is involved in one economic sector, decides by majority, he decides over those who are involved in completely different sectors, of which he understands nothing.
And those who today, as proletarians, raise this demand would very soon notice how they are much worse off under these newer conditions than under the present ones. Here, by thinking out of reality, one must think quite differently about the conditions of capital.
You took orders to understand. Now it is a matter of understanding something that you are not ordered to understand, but to understand out of the freedom of the human soul.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Threefold Social Organism I 18 Aug 1919, Dresden

The Communist Manifesto is not just a theoretical question, but a question of world history, one must understand that. What is called the social question lies deep, deep down in the development of humanity, only one must grasp it.
This difference is expressed in the Protestant confession: understanding everything that the world around us offers with the mind; for the other, faith must suffice.
The intellect is convinced that this does not come from the spiritual, but the soul revolts against it. And this is what underlies all social questions. That is the real face. It is thought that everything that lives as art, as science, as custom, law and so on, is ideology, smoke.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Threefold Social Organism II 19 Aug 1919, Dresden

The motive for production should not be the entrepreneur's profit, but rather what the people need. Is there anything underlying this essentially correct demand that can lead us to a proper solution of the social question? The abolition of the prevailing wage system and the right to vote for all those with equal rights – these are in fact demands that had been raised up to the Eisenach Program.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Threefold Social Organism III 20 Aug 1919, Dresden

But if there is not only debate and parliamentarization, but real work, then what these 25 to 30 can say will be understood by the other 700 to 800. The understanding is already there in the masses. An economic community must have a very specific size.
The right size is somewhere in between. This must first be understood and recognized. Rathenau, on the one hand, was highly ingenious, but on the other hand, he was bound by the old, outdated ideas and concepts that must first be overcome today.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Goetheanum and the Threefold Social Order 25 May 1920, Dornach

We were just about to enter into the practicalities, and we cannot make any further progress, ladies and gentlemen, unless as many people as possible develop an understanding of the specific issues. What do you expect to achieve with people who understand nothing of what needs to be done, who only understand what their agitators tell them?
Therefore, it does not come across in such a way that one could say it is easy to understand, like a newspaper article. But I would never want to admit that this book, for example, cannot be made understandable to everyone in serious work.
Because we should have been clear about it from the very beginning: the people do not want to understand us and cannot understand us. And so it is in many different ways that we should and want to first acquire the full practice of life.
336. The Big Questions of our Time and Anthroposophical Spiritual Knowledge: The Great Questions of the Time and the Anthroposophical Knowledge of the Spirit 18 Nov 1920, Freiburg

And the most important question is that concerning the essence of the human being itself. Recognizing the human being, understanding the human being, getting along with the human being, being able to live together with people – that is ultimately what all human thought must tend towards if the human being is not to lose the ground from under his feet.
Understanding the mystery of Golgotha is, after all, different from the event of Golgotha itself. People wanted to understand the event of Golgotha with ancient Oriental worldviews, and they understood it for a long time.
Because that which could not be written in any head or cash book, where only the technical outflows are written, right down to the treatment of people, that arose in modern times with the demands of a humane existence, with other demands. And basically, even today there is no understanding to be found for the language that another class speaks in each case, for one class. People have lost their understanding for one another when they are in different classes, because the deeper understanding for the human being with the knowledge-understanding, also with the understanding, with the interest in practical life, has been lost.

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