The basic mood in which to approach anthroposophical activity

 

"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

— Hebrews 11:1

Rudolf Steiner:  "Spirit is present in all material manifestations of our life, which cannot persist without our participation in the spirit. Today we must understand that this spirit does not merely attempt to address the cosmos out of human longing. It attempts to flow into our earthly world from a different world. We must understand that the windows between our world and this other world have been opened, not by us alone but also by the spiritual world that surrounds us. This was not the case in the nineteenth century, before a number of superhuman, extraterrestrial spiritual powers decided to allow a wave of spiritual life to flow into earthly life. When we consider the history of our times, we must realize that human beings are now newly able to receive the spiritual world if they so desire. Consequently, cultivating the spirit on Earth is now a super-earthly task, an intrinsic part of the life of the spiritual world itself. Now that human beings are again beginning to sense a dim longing to access the spirit — which was often not the case as recently as the last third of the nineteenth century — this longing, whenever it is truly willed, is being met by revelations from spiritual worlds. This sense of longing is the appropriate basic mood in which to approach anthroposophical activity."

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Source: June 11, 1922. GA 211. The Sun Mystery, pp. 140-141 [lecture misdated as July 11, 1922]