Thursday, March 30, 2023

Rudolf Steiner died 98 years ago today

    



Rudolf Steiner:  "Some people are destined by karma to announce prophetically what all of humanity will gradually, bit by bit, accept as the meaning of an epoch."




Rudolf Steiner:  "Whoever does not believe in all humility that his wisdom is the sum of all wisdom – that his judgement represents the highest judgment – will soon be able to observe that there are people apart from himself who have more wisdom and judgment [than himself], and he will listen to these beings and allow himself to be instructed by them. He will, when he gains some insight, become aware that he still has a path to follow that others have gone long before him. The more understanding a person obtains, the humbler he becomes. The clearer the realization how much he still has to learn, the more he will be inclined to find those he can still learn from. Anyone who thinks that he has nothing to learn from others only proves thereby that he or she has still not advanced very far. The more advanced a person is, the more he comes to recognize that human beings are on different levels of development and that there have always been those who were more advanced than their brethren – the spiritual leaders of humanity who are more advanced in their development, the highly developed, the most advanced individualities of humankind."


This is what reading Rudolf Steiner is like



The Gospel of Thomas, Saying 8: 

And he said, "The one is like a wise fisher who cast his net into the sea and drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them the wise fisher discovered a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish back into the sea, and with no hesitation picked the great good fish. Whoever has ears, listen!"




"Wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it."

— Proverbs 8:11



"You should be leading lives of joy —  deep inner joy in the truth! There is nothing in the world more delightful, nothing more fascinating, than the experience of truth."  — Rudolf Steiner

 




"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  — John 8:32









Here's a thought experiment: If you could send a message to your 12-year-old self, and you were limited to 2 words, what would your message be?

For me the answer's easy: "Rudolf Steiner"




Steiner! Steiner! and more Steiner! always more Steiner!



Once, driving home from Ithaca, Darlene told me that I should have a t-shirt reading


Ask me about Rudolf Steiner


Which is funny because it's true. A couple of miles further down the road a car passed us whose license plate was


RS Mania


I said to Darlene "And you think I have it bad."
















The name of him whom Providence has chosen
That wondrous things on Earth he should achieve,
Whom I may often praise, though ne'er sufficing,
Whose destiny we scarcely can believe,
His name — it is Humanus, Saint and wise one,
The best of men whom I did e'er perceive:


                --from "The Mysteries" by Goethe








“To create centers of peace & love in which the Christ can resurrect.”
~written on the urn that holds the ashes of Rudolf Steiner




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