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82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: The Anthroposophical Research Method 10 Apr 1922, The Hague

Rudolf Steiner
It may perhaps even surprise some who know this book that I make this claim, and yet it is true: the most elementary understanding of anthroposophical research methods can be gleaned from this “Philosophy of Freedom”. What one draws from it as an elementary understanding must then, however, be further developed.
In this etheric body, one has a reality, a time reality within oneself, and no one understands the formation of the human being without understanding this etheric body. And the most significant thing about this etheric body is that, at the moment we are ready, we can see our previous life on earth as if with a spiritual vision in this life tableau, which is the formative forces body, and we also stop distinguishing between subjective and objective.
The person with the ordinary, healthy human understanding always remains alongside. It is also not a matter of one person dissolving into the other, of the ordinary, healthy human being disappearing.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: Important Anthroposophical Results 11 Apr 1922, The Hague

Rudolf Steiner
The metabolic organism has brought it least of all to this, being something entirely unplastic, something unpictorial. We can understand the brain in the way it is constructed if we grasp it as an image of the soul life. And only then will brain physiology be on a healthy foundation, when we are able to understand the brain in this way, as materialized imaginations.
But by being able to study, we say, in the kidneys, the heart, the lungs, in every single organ, the solar process and the lunar process, the ascending and the descending, the fruitful, growing and the degenerating, by this we understand the individual organ from the cosmos. There will be no complete, total physiology until we understand all the organs of the human being in their ascending and descending life from the spirit of the cosmos.
For example, there is the biogenetic law, which Haeckel strongly emphasized. Certainly, this has undergone various corrections. I am familiar with the current state of research regarding the biogenetic law.
82. So That Man may Become Fully Human: Anthroposophy and Agnosticism 12 Apr 1922, The Hague

Rudolf Steiner
The air that was just outside is then inside me; the air that I have inhaled, that has been processed in the body, is then outside. So that man, if he is to be understood completely in terms of his physical body, must be seen as a solid, liquid, air-like substance.
When this is described – and this is the peculiar thing about anthroposophy – it can be brought into the forms of common sense and understood in the same way that a non-artist can understand a work of art, even though he cannot make it.
In order to trace this back to an exact thinking, you would first have to undertake an analysis of the concept of time. Just consider: as the usually meant reality stands before us, space and time are interwoven.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: Man and Woman in the Light of Spiritual Science 14 Nov 1907, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Here lies a great and significant mystery that man must understand if he dares to make a judgment about it at all! The question is this: What is there in the world that is in the same space as we are here, in a world that we call astral or spiritual, that corresponds to the masculine and the feminine of physical nature?
If we now ask what corresponds to the opposition of male and female in this world, we find two essential words that penetrate deep, deep into our soul. If we understand them correctly, they can solve many, many secrets of the astral world. There, the opposition of life and death, of destruction and development, corresponds to the sexual opposition.
Two elemental forces are indicated, which go through the whole cosmos and must be there. If man wants to understand here, only the horrors and all the peculiar feelings that are associated with the words death and life in man must cease!
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: Man, Woman and Child in the Light of Secret Science 10 Dec 1907, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
He who tries to appreciate this fact with all the powers of his soul will understand how much of the phenomena becomes understandable. Who would not see how female qualities unite in man in beautiful harmony with his male qualities!
That is the significance of these documents: we understand them only when we have realized the underlying facts within ourselves. Let us consider female nature.
One must ask oneself this question, and it always leads us to show how we can make more and more progress in knowledge and understand the documents of the religions better and better. A seemingly mundane observation such as the relationship between the sexes leads to an understanding of an important word.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: Man and Woman in the Light of Spiritual Science 10 Jan 1908, Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
If we look at this idea in a supersensible way, it is quite correct, but in Weininger's book it is materialistically understood and seems quite monstrous. He presents a mixture of substances. Nothing but materialistic paradoxes — apparent absurdities — can be derived from it.
Everyone carries these opposites within themselves. This becomes understandable to us in the qualities of women: loving devotion, compassion, which, when they can be increased, can increase to the level of male bravery.
The Bible verse: “There is no marriage in heaven” (Matt. 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35f.) becomes understandable to us through this. Man is in the heavens at night. We must not believe that there are no similar contrasts in the higher worlds.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: Man, Woman and Child in the Light of Spiritual Science 11 Jan 1908, Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
Here we must mention alcohol and its devastating effects. Only those who are unaware of this can underestimate its influence on their offspring. Alcohol has a terrible effect on the “ego” and on astral things.
What that means for certain things, people are not yet ready to understand, but it will be a great happiness. They will learn to understand how the creation of one sex or the other is connected with cosmic and other conditions.
This person first envelops himself in an astral body. Just as a magnet moving under a paper on which iron filings are spread arranges the filings, so the astral matter arranges itself into a new body.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: The Essence of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science 29 Jan 1908, Wiesbaden

Rudolf Steiner
But it is like this: When those who communicate the wisdom of the spiritual world from direct experience, from their own vision, then these truths can be understood if people only want to reflect sufficiently. To experience spiritual truths, seership is needed; to understand them, common sense is needed.
It is not an objection to the part of a spiritual being in a thing when we say that we understand the physical according to mechanical laws. We understand a clock according to purely mechanical laws.
When he had eaten a piece of her, he gestured to make him understand that she was very good. Then there is still another self that follows all the desires living in the astral body.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: Man and Woman in the Light of Spiritual Science 03 Feb 1908, Mannheim

Rudolf Steiner
But when someone who knows something about the higher worlds recounts the facts, then anyone who brings with them a healthy sense of truth can understand them. Today, there are already many people who recognize the truth of this theosophical worldview from spiritual intuition, from a healthy sense of humanity, from a sense of truth.
Another says: He who really understands history will find that all revolutionary ideas originate with women. In philosophy, this kind of thinking that summarizes everything and takes individual points of view is called synthetic thinking.
Here we see how what meets us externally in man and woman is a reflection of the supersensible. Only when this is understood can full understanding, unclouded by any antagonism, arise between the two sexes. This transsexual understanding is only given through a view like the theosophical one.
68d. The Nature of Man in the Light of Spiritual Science: The Course of Human Development from the Standpoint of Occult Science 06 Feb 1908, Karlsruhe

Rudolf Steiner
For the materialistically-minded, it is of course a nothing, one can well understand that. ... For the person who sees through things, this etheric or life body is a fighter against the disintegration of the physical body in every moment.
So we have an external physical process under the influence of mental agitation. This is a small example of how one can see material effects arising from the spiritual.
If this is the case for you, then you will naturally be able to bring about an emotional understanding in the child first, in the magical touch of imagery, before you cultivate the sober judgments of the mind, which is only made possible by the correct understanding of the whole personality at a later stage.

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