Anthroposophy hasn't arisen out of the chaos around us; it has been inserted into the chaos.

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "It will be ever more important to be true watchers of that spiritual treasure of which we must say again today in a certain connection that it is not brought into the world through any subjective idea, but from the observation of life itself, out of the perception of those demands which are taken from the most important human things of our age, and which will become more and more important as we advance into the near future. I want you to pay attention to those people whose will it is to destroy what is necessary for mankind. That will for destruction is very, very strong in many today. May you yourselves then be strong, for that which lies in this spiritual movement, and which has brought this Goetheanum into expression, has not arisen out of the chaos around us. It is an impulse which has been brought into the chaos."

Source: January 23, 1921. GA 203