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46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: A New Appearance Should Grow Vividly Out of a New Spirituality

Rudolf Steiner
These effects come from the spirits of personality, just as the effects of the spirits of form occurred in ancient Lemuria. These spiritual effects want to be understood. They show themselves by causing phenomena to occur that, through their own essence, urge the will to view them spiritually.
On earth equilibrium would be necessary; but this equilibrium is the manifestation of a struggle – the struggle in the spiritual field is not evil; it is the element of life: man must find the means to transfer the struggle into his inner being; at first he still resists under the guidance of the spiritual powers that want to keep the struggle external. But the external is not to be spiritualized mechanically, but a new external is to grow alive out of a new spirituality - the spirits of form are to give up their forming and the spirits of personality are to take their place - the archangeloi are to enter into the personality, i.e., man is to learn to understand the spiritual order; the Angeloi are to give the power for this - but man is to find that he is not in his body; he can only do so if he understands it spiritually - in spiritual understanding he will slip away from it.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: On Body and Soul

Rudolf Steiner
The spiritual researcher says: for an idea to have a will-arousing effect, it must undergo a change in its imaginative content. 6.) One speaks of the phenomena of the soul in such a way that one regards as its laws precisely that which causes the spirit to perish: associations.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: On the Current Economic Situation

Rudolf Steiner
But action in this direction can now, at this moment, only be based on personal thought and action that directly encompasses the individual concrete situations. Above all, it requires an understanding of what lives in the masses. The classes that have been leading up to now have neglected everything in order to gain this understanding.
No one who is a leader in economic life need do anything other than voluntarily place himself within the proletarian formations in the position to which his insights into economic management will easily lead him if he has an understanding of the instincts of the masses. But he must not believe that this understanding will come to him “by itself.”
By communicating with the proletariat about these things, one must at the same time achieve an understanding of the radical reorganization of the entire educational system. It is necessary to create an understanding of the necessity for this revolution to precede the building of a new economic life.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Impulses from East and West

Rudolf Steiner
No divine can be recognized through the wisdom of Yahweh. It appears only in the process of love under the validity of this wisdom, insofar as this is bound to the blood. At the time when the impulses of revelation through the blood cease, something else must step forward to complement this revelation, something that understands the human being as soul and as spirit. The human being is understood as a soul through a science of freedom and as a spirit through an anthroposophy. Modern science has simply revealed what was contained in the Jah-veh revelation; but the time has come when this revelation is in danger of falling prey to its opponents.
The West must place the human being in the place of abstraction – by perceiving its human being as a ghost; the East must perceive its human being as a nightmare, so that it comes to understand it as a spatial being. The East must come away from its fight against the Father, the West from its fight against the Son; the West needs a spiritualization of science; the East a scientific penetration of its religious consciousness.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Jahve and Christ

Rudolf Steiner
Because Jah-weh has assumed the autocracy of consciousness, the flesh in man, which is included in the waking process of life, has come under the rule of lower spirit beings than those in whose spheres Christ lives. The establishment of the personal relationship with Christ] returns to man his conscious kinship.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Autobiographical Fragment II

Rudolf Steiner
Valentin was tall, the pastor of Pottschach was short; and I once witnessed the spectacle of the former taking the latter under his arm, picking him up and carrying him like a package for quite a distance. I soon became familiar with the workings of the railroad.
We children thought that our substitute teacher was a “real” teacher; the schoolmaster “doesn't understand anything.” My parents were not particularly pious people. Even in Pottschach, my father always said that “service to the Lord comes before service to God” and used this as an excuse for never going to church, saying that his work left him no time to pray.
I owe him an enormous debt because he introduced me to an understanding of the Copernican system as early as the age of nine. He did that with the help of very instructive drawings.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: The Essence of Anthroposophy

Rudolf Steiner
We must grasp this impossibility and, on the basis of this understanding, come to the other way of investigating the soul and spirit if we want to gather fruits equal to those of natural science. Anthroposophy comes to this understanding. It regards the thinking human being who conducts research about nature. He will best achieve his goal if he lets thinking only speak about the facts of nature.
From this arises the art of forming human beings. 24) Social conditions can be understood with a thinking based on anthroposophy. Natural science works with sharply defined contours towards a goal.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Anthroposophy and Science I

Rudolf Steiner
1. Anthroposophy aims to provide an understanding of the human being; it begins with its results where science ends, which alone is accepted as such in the broadest circles today - but it also begins with its research methods where this science ends.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: About Franz Hartmann

Rudolf Steiner
Franz Hartmann comes from Bavaria, studied medicine, undertook extensive travels through America, which introduced him to the customs and traditions, especially the so-called magical arts of primitive peoples.
He also published the Bhagavad-Gita in a German translation and tried to spread the underlying philosophical system. After his return to Germany, he met a primitive German mystic (a former craftsman) in whom he saw a follower of the Rosicrucian teachings and insights.
46. Posthumous Essays and Fragments 1879-1924: Otto Willmann: The Science of the Face of Catholic Truth

Rudolf Steiner
This spiritual world is not just “reason”, which, because of its abstractness, cannot in fact be the basis of a catholicity, which Willmann quite rightly sees – this spiritual world is a living thing. It all comes down to humanity absorbing an understanding of the real spiritual world and not getting stuck at the formal, as if the human spirit were just a kind of summary naming of sensory perceptions. Thus Willmann's book is a great force as an advance for Catholicism - for it is superior to all schools of thought of the present day, except for the one, the anthroposophical, which is still struggling for the very first seed of an understanding of its true nature. —

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