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Anthroposophy - Rudolf Steiner Page 3Anthroposophy is the term that Rudolf Steiner coined for his spiritual movement, which literally translates as spiritual wisdom. Rudolf Steiner saw the anthroposophy movement as a way to help people and humanity gather in more harmonious community and promote positive spiritual values. Anthroposophy found a new home when in 1913, the construction of the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland began. This extraordinary wooden building took shape gradually during the First World War. An international group of anthroposophy volunteers collaborated with local builders and artisans to shape the unique carved forms and structures designed by Steiner. Rudolf Steiner viewed architecture as a servant of human life, and he designed the Goetheanum to support the work of anthroposophy -- drama and eurythmy in particular. The Goetheanum was burned to the ground on New Year's Eve, 1922 by an arsonist. Rudolf Steiner designed a second building, which was completed after his death. It is now the center for the Anthroposophical Society and its School of Spiritual Science. 
After the end of World War I, Europe was in ruins and people were ready for new social forms. Attempts to realize Steiner's ideal of a "threefold social order" as a political and social alternative was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, its conceptual basis is even more relevant today. Steiner's social thinking and intention for the Anthroposophy movement can be understood only within the context of his view of history. In contrast to Marx, Steiner saw that history is shaped essentially by changes in human consciousness changes in which higher spiritual beings actively participate. We can discover our own understanding of this relationship through spiritual development and investigate this systematically through spiritual science. We can build a healthy social order only on the basis of insight into the material, soul, and spiritual needs of human beings, which was the basis of Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy. Those needs are characterized by a powerful tension between the search for community and the experience of the human I, or true individuality. Community, in the sense of material interdependence, is the essence of our world economy. Like independent thinking and free speech, the human I, or essential self, is the foundation of every creative endeavor and innovation, and crucial to the realization of human spirit in the arts and sciences. Steiner's formed the Anthroposophy movement so that it could further these values. Rudolf Steiner Biography, page 4, press here. Some related works on Anthroposophy by Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts: Anthroposophy as a Path of Knowledge: The Michael Mystery by Rudolf Steiner, Mary Adams, George Adams Anthroposophy (A Fragment) by Rudolf Steiner Anthroposophy: An Introduction by Rudolf Steiner This information about Rudolf Steiner is courtesy of www.SteinerBooks.org. |
Rudolf Steiner Courses at EYFT Rudolf Steiner and his "many faces" Rudolf Steiner the philosopher, Rudolf Steiner, the mystic, the educator, the Eurythmist, the Spiritual Scientist, the biodynamic farmer...Read further from the biography of this remarkable man... Rudolf Steiner's Spiritual Science, Related discussions: The Bhadavad Gita and Rudolf Steiner's How to Know Higher Worlds |