Living Anthroposophy: the fiery flame that will lead us ever further

 

Rudolf Steiner:  “The true value of the Anthroposophical Society can only be assessed by verifying whether it understands not only dead anthroposophy, which concerns itself with what is past, but whether it also understands living anthroposophy. Living anthroposophy can also be a sum of flaming sparks! But these sparks of fire will be inside a temple that is not made of external material. Physical flames consume temples that consist of outer materials. The flames of genuine spiritual enthusiasm, of true spiritual life―which must permeate the temple because they must illuminate it with what lights up in the spirit―these flames cannot destroy the temple; they can only give an ever more glorious form to this temple. Let us think of what living anthroposophy is; let us think of it as the fiery flame that will lead us ever further, like the living spirit of anthroposophy itself―which shall lead us to the further evolution of humanity and to the rebuilding of what is now in such an evident decline.”

Source: May 23, 1923