Rudolf Steiner: "People will reject Anthroposophy as idiocy, but slowly it will come to seem self-evident. The Copernican worldview took a long time to be accepted. Anthroposophy can wait. Yet it has a cultural obligation to state that ordinary science — whose methods are held to be sacrosanct — has developed a psychology based on external investigations using external means of counting, compution, and analysis, that is devoid of soul. Science even considers this to be an ideal state of affairs. Anthroposophy does not dispute the justification for such methods, founded on the scientific outlook, but it seeks to add to it a fully developed understanding of the inmost nature of the human soul, of what is soul-spiritual in the whole world, the eternal life that exists in the whole cosmos, so that human beings can discern themselves as eternal too, immortal, and inwardly connected with the eternal in the cosmos. Thus Anthroposophy seeks to offer insight into our life at present and in the coming future, and by so doing to meet a need of our time, adding to modern, soul-devoid psychology a living psychology elicited from the human soul itself: a psychology founded on a world outlook pervaded and imbued with soul, with spirit. It is this that will be needed increasingly."
Source:
April 27, 1923. GA 84
The Aims of Anthroposophy, pp. 124-125
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