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284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Laying of the Foundation Stone of the Model Building in Malsch 05 Apr 1909, Malsch

Rudolf Steiner
Then we all signed the document, which Rudolf Steiner rolled up and placed in a bottle under the foundation stone. It was late in the evening, but Rudolf Steiner wanted to wait for the moon before we followed him outside to a forest ravine where the small, open-topped building lay.
A decadent time took this to mean something external and created the custom of walling a slave alive under the building. What should really be buried with the foundation stone are the feelings and thoughts and blessings of those who build the building and those who want to use it.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: The Inauguration of the Stuttgart Building 15 Oct 1911, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
Furthermore, we would like to thank all those who have generously contributed to this undertaking, and in particular we would like to mention one of our members who, with a large, fundamental donation, has made it possible to fulfill our long-held wish.
The forms and designs that confront us, the signs and images that give the room its character, are drawn from those spheres that underlie our earthly one; we should always be mindful of this, and the work we do in this house should strive to achieve harmony with our surroundings.
Even if it is autumn outside, we have spring in this room. Then we can understand from the language of the world spirit in nature how justified it is to seek contemplation and collection.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: The Building for Anthroposophy at Stuttgart From an Occult Point of View 15 Oct 1911, Stuttgart
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
The effects of colour are extremely important. Now you know that under certain circumstances in the general state of our cosmic environment, we see a fundamental colour outspread above us; the blue sky.
The effect of these two pictures together, not of each one singly, is somewhat as follows; when first one picture works and then the other afterwards, under all circumstances, whether it is wished or not, the one picture and afterwards the other will together rouse up thought-forms particular formations in the astral body.
Our feeling may perhaps render somewhat more perceptible the thought-forms which our actual body will produce perfectly under all circumstances from these pictures, if Mr. Stockmeier, succeeds in painting them in the right way.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: In What Sense Are We Theosophists and In What Sense Are We Rosicrucians? 16 Oct 1911, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
One is that the person who wants the answer should be in the position to understand it, that is to say, that through his whole anthroposophical or theosophical development he had progressed far enough to understand the answer. Abstract reasons prompt him to put the question much earlier than it is possible for him to understand the answer which is given from occult worlds. The other is that the one asked knows the answer.
No scheme is of any value, but we have to wait for what comes to us as a gift from spiritual worlds. In other words, our whole effort is to understand something that sounds so simple: To open our hearts to the spiritual world which is always around us, to understand words such as those which Christ said: “I am with you always, even to the end of the world.”
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Art and Its Future Task 24 Aug 1923, Penmaenmawr

Rudolf Steiner
But on the other hand, we also see how, in a great number of people, in more people than one would usually think, vague undercurrents prevail, longings for something. These longings one would like to fathom in the field of anthroposophical work; one would like to get to the bottom of them, so to speak.
At the moment one wants to go higher in the higher links of human nature, one cannot do so without letting the world enter into an artistic understanding of the human being, because the world itself creates artistically where it creates spiritually. So that no one can understand the human being who cannot let the scientific pass into the artistic in his own inner vision. Modern science then comes along and says: Yes, the one to whom it happens that he passes from science into artistry, he strays from the path of logic, from the observations of logic that must be present in science.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Foreword

Hella Wiesberger
And this idea must live in particular in the rooms under the double dome, in the rooms in which Sophie Stinde's soul already worked during her earthly incarnation as her co-work.
January 13: Marie von Sivers writes to Edouard Schuré: ”... I understand your horror at the thought of our undertaking. I share your fear, only I have the impression that there is a necessity here.
Since Demeter (Act 5) speaks to Triptolemus alone, sparks become visible under her robe. She tells Triptolem about the loss of her daughter, and he promises to descend into the underworld to bring her back.
284. Images of Occult Seals and Columns: Report on the Inauguration of the Stuttgart Building

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And the whole interior of this solemn temple, designed with so much loving understanding, appeared to the beholder more beautiful and unified than could have been expected! If one may say so, there is a yardstick for the effectiveness of everything that is shaped into reality from artistic feeling; it is the yardstick that triggers the instinctive feeling: it cannot be any different than it is!
In this speech, Miss von Sivers emphasized with particular emphasis that we must greet with joyful satisfaction the founding of a Theosophical Home, such as Stuttgart now has, which arose from the most beautiful impulses and was made possible by generous donations. ; but that we must never lose sight of the great exemplary goal that is linked for us with the construction of an initially quite exceptional, spiritual-scientific place of care in Munich, despite the special interests of individual lodges. We must rather learn to understand better and better that the realization of such a university of theosophical spiritual striving, which does not want to limit its rays to a small radius but, due to Munich's favorable location, wants to extend them to the outermost periphery of its effectiveness, that such a university has become a vital necessity for us.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: Anthroposophy and Contemporary Intellectual Life 07 Apr 1922, The Hague

Rudolf Steiner
We initially feel satisfied because we have been educated from the newer school of thought, by understanding the machine, by understanding the universe, the cosmos, as a machine, with interlocking wheels and so on.
Something remains that repels us, precisely in terms of our full humanity, from this understanding of the machine. An understanding of the machine is what has actually contributed to the greatness, to the triumphs of the modern spirit of science.
And if the will is not present to bridge or fill the gap in this way, our age will show to an ever greater extent what it is already showing: that youth does not understand age, that age does not understand youth. And the consequence of this is that people do not understand each other, that a social life becomes more and more impossible.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: The Position of Anthroposophy among the Sciences 08 Apr 1922, The Hague
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
I can only assure you that one who is engaged in anthroposophical research fully understands how difficult it is for a man involved in scientific work to-day to pass from the scientific attitude into Anthroposophy.
In respect to human perception, however, much is understood differently once one is able to survey, in genuine self-knowledge, the whole inner nature of “mathematicising”.
From this there remains a kind of deposit, little understood now, in what were called then the Seven Liberal Arts. They had to have been mastered by everyone who claimed to have received a higher education.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: Anthroposophy and the Visual Arts 09 Apr 1922, The Hague
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
But, looking at this formation as a whole, we do not understand it if we try to explain it merely by what is within the head. We understand it only if we conceive it as wrought from out of the cosmos through the mediation of the body of formative forces. If we now pass on to consider man's chest formation, we reach an inward understanding of this—an understanding in respect to the human form—only if we can picture to ourselves how man lives on the earth, round which the stars of the zodiacal line revolve.
If we want to understand man's lower limb-system, to which his metabolic system is linked, we must turn to the earth's forces.

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