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266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 07 Jun 1912, Oslo
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Much more strength is needed for independent discoveries than for an intelligent understanding of the Pythagorean theorem or some other already found fact. What's communicated to us now we can also find ourselves, but probably only after 25 incarnations.
266II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 11 Jun 1912, Oslo
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That's why everything is clothed in concepts and words that one can understand, that appeal to one's intellect. One should confirm theosophy with one's thinking. If you love nature's beauty and enjoy its small things you won't just feel nature in majestic oceans or mountains—like sensation-seeking modern materialists—but in things that can be found anywhere.
He should become familiar with nature and try to understand it, and not criticize it without sympathy. Then every little animal can teach him something. A man shouldn't say: it's only maya.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Report on the Meeting of the Delegates I 25 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

They were completely alone. Members flocked to them, but no one took them under their wing. No measures were taken to turn the members into active participants in the common cause.
This deficiency is also connected with the most recent events here in Stuttgart. To understand this, we must touch on the background to the appeal that has now been sent to the members. This prehistory began even before the Dornach catastrophe, had nothing to do with it, because it was rooted in the long history of the Society, as just described.
Things can be presented in such a way that everyone can understand them. Spiritual knowledge can be popularized in a good sense. The branches should develop into anthroposophical colleges.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Report on the Meeting of the Delegates II 26 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

There was a time when it was as if the watchword was that it was now threefolding that counted and no longer anthroposophy. We must try to understand the psychological reasons for Mr. Uehlis's breakdown under the burden of work and Dr. Unger's inactivity.
Within the framework of the program possible under the present circumstances, the “Coming Day” fulfills its tasks and proves to be an economically viable undertaking.
It was often met with a false understanding or a lack of will to understand on the part of individuals who were striving for anthroposophy but did not fully live up to anthroposophical responsibility.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Report on the Meeting of the Delegates III 27 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

How was it that even in the ranks of his own college federation there was so little understanding for what was being striven for here? The reason was that two generations were confronting each other in it.
Steiner often used about his spiritual research — everyone can understand it, but to research it, you need the organs of the spirit — will apply equally to the new science. In this science, the specialist will only have the research ahead of the layman, but not the understanding. It will carry its popularity within itself; but it cannot be understood at all by a modern university professor!
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Report on the Meeting of the Delegates IV 28 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

The mistake was not that I was not understood in Stuttgart – most people assume that. I was understood – it was just that what was understood was not carried out.
It was mentioned earlier that individual parts of society do not understand each other with other parts. It seems to me that this cannot be the case, they do understand each other.
It is simply a matter of getting fully involved in the matter and judging it from that point of view. Then one understands Dr. Steiner, understands his behavior, and does not speak of sleight of hand out of one's own lack of understanding.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Postscript to the Report on the Meeting of the Delegates 28 Feb 1923, Stuttgart

Those who have followed its wondrous development in recent years with loving understanding and sense its magnificent potential can glimpse the hope that future centuries may see in it the first beginning of a new culture.
One senses that when this education is fully understood, the impact on growing humanity and on the culture of the future will be felt throughout the world as a kind of liberating sigh of relief.
Perhaps in the not too distant future no one will understand that they did not already evoke storms of shock and enthusiasm in the broadest circles in their own time.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Circular letter from the Executive Council to Prospective Trusted Representatives Stuttgart

The Executive Council of the Anthroposophical Society As you already know, we, the undersigned, took over the leadership of the Anthroposophical Society as the new Executive Council at the Assembly of Delegates of the Anthroposophical Society, which met here in Stuttgart from February 25-28.
The members of the extended board will also have all the powers that are intended for the trusted representatives. Since we understand our tasks entirely in the sense of the “Draft Principles of an Anthroposophical Society” 1, what is said about this on pages 4 and 5 of the draft will also be decisive for the work of the trusted personalities.
1. See under Notes.2. Coming soon – for members only – from the Philosophisch-Anthroposophischen Verlag Berlin.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Memorandum for the Committee of the Free Anthroposophical Society for its Orientation 07 Mar 1923, Stuttgart

If this is properly understood, the relative separation cannot lead to a split, but to a harmony that would not be possible without the separation.
This is because the life communities will be free groups of people who understand each other; and this will be able to form the basis for ensuring that no one in the general Free Anthroposophical Society feels restricted in their freedom.
This refers to the statutes of the old Anthroposophical Society that were in force at the time; see under References.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Annual General Meeting of the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland 22 Apr 1923, Dornach

Accordingly, at the request of those present, Rudolf Steiner introduced the meeting under the aspect: the Anthroposophical Society as such must set itself a positive task. Dr.
It is a terrible thought, but it can also be understood in the very best sense. But then the points of the agenda must really be grasped by the scruff of the neck.
You will not expect me to start throwing flattery into the debate from some underground lair. But you see, this Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland once had the great good fortune to have Mr.

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