Wellspring: What the world needs now is anthroposophy

Friday, May 1, 2020

What the world needs now is anthroposophy

"The perceiving of the Idea in existing reality is the true communion of man." — Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner: "The intellect alone can give us no real knowledge of what has really come to pass in the life of humanity through the ages. A great and far-reaching metamorphosis took place in man's life of soul and must never be forgotten when we are studying the course of evolution. We who have been living in the era of the development of the Consciousness Soul since the beginning of the fifteenth century have in our inner, intellectual activity only a shadowy reflection of the spirituality which pervaded the life of the mind in the fourth post-Atlantean period of civilization. And the task before us is to awaken a faculty of the soul which will quicken in this shadowy intellect of ours a living understanding of the universe. The shadow-intellect that is characteristic of all modern culture has fettered man to the Earth. He has eyes only for earthly things, particularly when he allows himself to be influenced by the claims of modern science. In our age it never occurs to man that his being belongs not to the Earth alone, but to the Cosmos beyond the Earth. Knowledge of our connection with the Cosmos beyond the Earth — that is what we need above all to make our own....The task before us is to begin once again to realize and understand the connection of the being of man with super-earthly existence."