Anthroposophy: the lifeblood of the soul; the elixir of life

Rudolf Steiner:

Anthroposophy would like to understand itself in such a way that it is not not dead, abstract knowledge, not merely knowledge in theories. Anthroposophy would like to flow into people not only as thoughts and not only as results of observations, but as the lifeblood of the soul.

Certainly, anthroposophy would have to be the most immodest of the immodest if it wanted to awaken the belief that so and so many world riddles exist, and so and so many world riddles can be solved. This is not the point. Life is full of riddles, and only as long as there are riddles will there be life. For we have to experience the riddles, and only in experiencing these riddles can we continue our existence in a truly human way. A world without questions would be an inanimate world. It is not that anthroposophy promises to solve all the riddles of life. But it wishes, through its own character, to be able to serve life. It wants, through the power of cognition, to give a real foundation to the whole, full human being — the artistic, the religious, the moral, and the social human being. Anthroposophy wants to serve life. It would like to serve this life not by being merely dead but by being living cognition and thus developing its own life-force. It wants to serve life, and nothing can serve life other than life itself. Therefore anthroposophy would like to become life itself in order to serve the life of humanity.

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Source: 

April 7, 1922. GA 82.

Becoming Fully Human, p. 20