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317. Curative Education: Lecture IX 04 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
He is engaged in preparing microscopic slides; he will look round in all directions for objects to bring under the microscope, and in this regular—and at the same time irregular—way, satisfy his longing to acquire things for himself.
And if he should go so far as to click his tongue at the same time, then things will go very badly with him. Once we have the insight to see and understand things of this kind when we meet them in life, the insight itself will guide us to the right method of dealing with them.
Appetite and evacuation of the bowels were in order. You must understand that it is impossible to steer clear of such crises—unless one is prepared to steer clear of all hope of a cure!
317. Curative Education: Lecture X 05 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
There is in our time great need that young men and women should rise up among us and exercise a regenerating influence upon mankind; and what I am now going to say is not said out of misunderstanding of the Youth Movement of our day, nor from lack of understanding, but out of a true understanding of it. It is a necessity, this Youth Movement, it is something of quite extraordinary significance; for those older people who can understand it, the modern Youth Movement is interesting in the highest degree.
And in the morning you have to think: Here is a circle (blue); here is a point (yellow). Yes, you have to understand that a circle is a point, and a point a circle. You have to acquire a deep, inner understanding of this fact.
Adopting this line of approach, trying, that is, to understand man inwardly, you will learn to understand the whole of man. You must, first of all, be quite clear in your mind that these two figures, these two conceptions, are one and the same, are not at all different from one another.
317. Curative Education: Lecture XI 06 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
And right in the midst of all these members stands man in his very own individuality, which individuality goes through repeated earth lives and has the task of bringing under control this whole connection of various members, has the task of uniting them, on the principle of freedom, under one individual ordering.
L. came to me and explained that there was a deep feeling among the Lauenstein members of the importance of the task they were undertaking; they felt they were about to embark upon what would prove to be a new mission within the Anthroposophical Movement, and it would surely be good if the karmic connections between those who are engaging in the work could be thoroughly explained and understood.
Consider how it is, for instance, with regard to Goethe's Theory of Metamorphosis. In the form it was able to develop under Goethe himself, who was after all a clever man, it appears to us today, does it not, as an abstract theory?
317. Curative Education: Lecture XII 07 Jul 1924, Dornach
Translated by Mary Adams

Rudolf Steiner
We have, as you know, to begin with, our physical body, which derives from Saturn times and has been gradually formed and completed with such wonderful artistic power in four majestic stages of development. Then we have the etheric body, which has undergone three stages of development. And we have besides the astral body, which has undergone only two.
For you will never find that one who is genuinely undergoing development will complain that this or that hinders him from meditating. In point of fact we are not really hindered by these things that seem to come in our way.
Suppose you have the intention of undertaking work with backward children. The first thing you have to do is to study and observe the pedagogy that is followed in the anthroposophical movement.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture I 08 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
First and foremost, dear friends, there must be an absolutely clear understanding in the part of the theologians and on the part of the physicians what is now going to be made possible by their working together: namely, a new pastoral medicine.
It is tremendously important that this should be thoroughly understood by both sides. A great deal will depend upon it. Apparently the thought has even been entertained that theologians should actually acquire medical knowledge.
In contrast, when you are working as a physician or therapist you draw the patient's soul directly into his or her physical body. Indeed we can say if physicians understand their profession properly, they realize that they enter directly into the realm of the spiritual.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture II 09 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
Only its purely mineral and physical nature can be understood with the methods of knowledge that are brought to it today. What the etheric body impresses upon it is not to be reached at all by those methods.
In short, if we want to find the impression of the astral body upon the physical body, upon the breathing and blood circulation, we are obliged to bring a musical understanding to it. Still more difficult to understand is the ego organization. For this one needs to grasp the meaning of the first verse of the Gospel of St.
But we can think of a personality in a later epoch who went through these stages under the wise direction of her confessors, so that she could devote herself undisturbed to her inner visions.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture III 10 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
This happens similarly with every other sense perception. To anyone who understands these things, the entire explanation in today's psychology textbooks, or even in epistemology, is terribly childish.
From a spiritual point of view time is not like that. And one finds little understanding for spiritual development—which, after all, is present in all physical evolution—when time is thought of in that conventional way.
Therefore both physicians and priests must be trained to understand the conditions under which a person is either in balance or not in balance between spirit and nature.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture IV 11 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
We get new teeth only once. The teeth are changed once and do not undergo any other renewal. They belong in this category in the most extreme sense. As a matter of fact, the course of human life is such that the older one becomes, the more one retains of old physical substance.
The child is absorbing pure forces from the sunshine. One must understand that—how humanity stands within the cosmos! And when the child has certain etheric forces released at the change of teeth, they then work back upon the astral organization and ego organization.
Only when one realizes this does one finally begin to understand the real nature of the human being. For now what happens when the world withdraws its formative forces—forces that previously we had always been free to use to build ourself up?
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture V 12 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
It is a complete waking sleep given over to the bodily functions, which are not under the control of the weak physical body but are active as processes in the outer world are active.
Whoever is vocationally drawn to observe such things should do so not only as individual symptoms—where, naturally, they should be studied with special love—but should also cultivate an understanding for them as a general phenomenon. Such a person should also develop an understanding for how these things are brought about.
These things cannot merely be criticized, they must be understood, so that one relates to them in the right way. What we should see in front of us is wrong education in early childhood.
318. Pastoral Medicine: Lecture VI 13 Sep 1924, Dornach
Translated by Gladys Hahn

Rudolf Steiner
Basically this was the belief that one does not understand an illness unless one knows its cause. Now consider the belief that came later, pronouncing exactly the opposite view—before psychoanalysis intervened in such a frightfully dilettantish fashion.
Naturally it is a fulfillment of karma. But one can understand the case from a single earth-life. Then there are the individuals turned in the other direction.
If one refuses to accept assertions from that kind of standpoint, if one directs one's activity from a really thoughtful perception of the world—that is, of physical and spiritual life—then if one needs to offer comfort to a sick person, one will offer the comfort of religion with a true spiritual aura. But not without clear understanding behind it. Whether one gives communion to sick people in the right way, so that they begin to improve, so that during their convalescence their soul is in no way injured, depends upon one's having an understanding for these things.

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