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353. Star Wisdom, Moon Religion, Sun Religion: Characteristics of Judaism 08 May 1924, Dornach
Translated by Dorothy S. Osmond

Rudolf Steiner
And that was why the ancient Jews did not live at peace with the peoples around them, whom they did not understand and who did not understand them. The neighbouring peoples did not worship this one and only God in the same way but recognised spiritual beings in all the phenomena of nature—a multiplicity of spiritual beings.
Christianity could not do otherwise than picture the spiritual Godhead in three Persons. (In three Persons: this is not understood to-day but the original meaning was that of threefoldness, the Divine manifesting in three forms.)
The relation between the single Godhead and the multiplicity of spiritual beings will then be intelligible to men and no one people need be under the sway of subconscious impulses. That is why from the very outset I was apprehensive when the Jews, not knowing which way to turn, founded the Zionist movement.
353. The History of Humanity and the World Views of Civilized Nations: The Effect of the Cemetery Atmosphere on People 01 Mar 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
And it cannot be denied that this rustic shrewdness actually grew under the influence of the cemetery atmosphere. They kept the harmful things out by planting walnut and lime trees everywhere.
On the astral body, gentlemen. The astral body is completely under the influence of the world of the stars. But because today's star science wants nothing to do with the astral body, it does not seek to observe the stars in their influence on man.
You can read as much as you like in history books: you will not understand how the ancient peoples progressed. You are told about all kinds of things, about all kinds of wars and kings, which creates a motley chaos in the human mind; you don't know what it actually is.
353. The History of Humanity and the World Views of Civilized Nations: Supra-physical Connections in the Human Mind 05 Mar 1924, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
It may well be that the child becomes receptive to what Ms. B gives it as underwear or the like when she washes it. But on the other hand it can also be important for Mrs. B to receive underwear; she then needs, because she does have a little remorse about what she did to Mrs.
And as you can imagine, because he said something so special, he was not immediately understood by others either. Therefore, at first he was understood only by a few. What did this personality, Jesus, actually say when he appeared in Palestine?
But if you don't know that this has led to that, you can't really understand the Gospels at all. And they are actually being understood today in a very bad sense, especially by those who profess to do so.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: The Initiation of the Rosicrucians 19 May 1907, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
Today we have not yet reached the point where Hegel would be understood again. And yet his works would be a good means of showing what it means to live in pure, sensuality-free thought.
Certainly, many do not go through something like that. For most people who cannot undergo something like this, the simple Theosophical teaching is enough. It is sensual thought; no one can hear or see it.
All striving for occult development must proceed under the principle of conquest, which Goethe also expressed in one place. Only when we have conquered ourselves may we develop higher.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Planetary Evolution and the Evolution of Humanity 20 May 1907, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
If a person does not sleep, their health will be undermined because the astral body has not rested in the starry world for a while. That is why the astral body has been given this name.
And how does this I work? If we want to understand this, we must remember primitive peoples. Take a people who today stands at a lower level of culture.
And when he went out to listen, he listened to a fundamental and underlying tone that was present like a musical keynote that the Atlantean understood. It is a simple, multi-syllabic syllable; it lived in the entire environment of the Atlantean; it went through everything, and the Atlantean said to himself: “In this fundamental tone, the god speaks to me.”
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Notes on the Design and Decoration of the Congress Hall 21 May 1907, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
The human form is undergoing transformation. Some can already see on the astral plane today what will be physically available in the future.
The unusable substance is represented as the moon, which is trampled underfoot. What must come out when the earth becomes the sun again is represented by the dragon. It will be overcome when the earth becomes the sun again.
This is connected with cosmic conditions that arise when what is called Kama is trampled underfoot. The state that will occur when this has happened is symbolized in the Holy Grail of the narrated image.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Report on the Congress in the Berlin Branch 12 Jun 1907, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
The Theosophical cause should intervene in practical life, should be a matter of education, a matter of becoming immersed in all branches of practical existence. Only those who have a deeper understanding and a deeper concept of the actual impulses of the theosophical cause already know today what possibilities this 'theosophy will offer in the future.
The initials on the program reflect the basic ideas. The underlying intention was to crystallize theosophy in the construction of the world.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: On Chaos and Cosmos 19 Oct 1907, Berlin
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
What this word really refers to lies even beyond what we understand as Heaven. Not only the wonderful old Grecian myth speaks of Chaos when it says that the most ancient Gods were born out of the Chaos; the legends and myths of other nations, too, are acquainted with this Chaos, albeit under a different name.
So it would gradually have come about that people would no longer understand the spiritual teachings at all, because everything would at once be applied to the material world.
Human beings must gradually regain the feelings with which we understand such things. But the Chaos works not only in the beginning of world evolution; it works on and on; it is present even today.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Report at the Sixth General Assembly of the German Section 20 Oct 1907, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
The intention was to make a start, to allow Theosophy to be more than just a collection of abstract dogmas, but to give it influence over the life that surrounds us. No one can be under the illusion that the way in which we have succeeded in harmonizing the entire organization of the congress was more than a weak beginning compared to what lives as Theosophical thought.
It is deeply gratifying to note that on this occasion in particular there has been such a spirit of understanding, especially in the German Section. We needed a lot of money; but it has been shown that where it matters to sustain the Theosophical life, there is also understanding and a willingness to make sacrifices.
Everything that had to be done was done by our dear friends in Munich in a way that was not only dedicated but also thoroughly understanding, so that what is called Theosophical unity and harmony was most beautifully realized in this work.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Images of Occult Seals and Columns 21 Oct 1907, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
John” (Apocalypse). For anyone who is able to understand this writing in a spiritual-scientific sense sees in it nothing other than the description given in words of what the “seer” perceives in an archetypal way as the development of humanity on the astral plane.
That these forms appear as column capitals seems self-evident to anyone who understands the situation. The basis of the physical development of earthly beings lies in the spiritual world.
Now all development is based on a progression in seven stages. (The number seven should not be understood as the result of “superstition”, but as the expression of a spiritual law, just as the seven colors of the rainbow are the expression of a physical law.)

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