David_Sundaram wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 3:13 pm
In relation to Steiner adulators, I wonder what 'they' make of his less well publicized beliefs and pronouncement in terms of what said pronouncements imply about his thought-feeling-n-belief-process, IOW his soul's developmental status? Take this, for example - from
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/43618
David,
it does you no honor to go against Steiner with such a cheap shot.
One does not form an opinion on a subject by only examining the views of its opponents.
If there's one thing that can be understood from Steiner is that within
every human beings lies the possibility for the unfoldment of self-consciousness in freedom. It is not an incident that his most import work is the
Philosophy of Freedom. It is in this process that one attains to a level of consciousness that is above ego, gender, nation, race, even species! Within each one of us there is a kernel of spiritual activity that has the possibility to differentiate and
see through all these layers. That's what freedom is about. It's not about doing whatever we want, without knowing why we want it. I'm not free if I
identify with my nation or with my race. I'm only free if I experience myself as a spiritual being that uses the body within a racial, national, cultural context as a
tool. Tool that should be
put to work not for my own sensual pleasures but for the
benefit of the whole evolution - of every nation, race, animal, plant and mineral.
You see, people don't really have anything much to say about Anthroposophy. If one had read at least a little and understood it, he'll have no choice but to say "Well, everything here is about rising man to full consciousness, about lifting him out of his animalistic state, where he's being thrown around on the waves of passions and desires that he can't control. And this is achieved not by preaching some vague religious morals but by finding what is real within the human being and starting from there. Through proper cognition of ourselves and our environment we find their relations. Out of these relations I understand how to conduct my life such that my Spirit can express freely and unhindered by the blind instinctive nature."
And this is exactly why Spiritual Science is so hated. Because it leads man towards reality. And this people don't want. They still hope that science will prove that it is
natural to be weak, to be thrown around by conflicting desires and confused ideas. That's how the brain is wired - can't go against it! Religion is also convenient - man is weak, man is sinful... and thus man dreams happily. But when someone comes along and says "Here - the possibility for human perfection is within you. It is possible to unfold the slumbering forces within your soul, experience deeper strata of reality and from there draw the impulses of true morality, of brotherly Love. Don't take my word for it: you can see it for yourself", now this really crosses the line of "decency".
So that's why Spiritual Science is hated so much. It's much more pleasant to dance and sing, and to await the Pleiadean starship to take you on board for a ride through the Universe, isn't it? But to hear that one must put effort, to rectify every flaw of character, to make sacrifices, to work for the whole without expecting to get anything in return... now who wants to hear that?
And that's why over and over again people come with cheap attacks like in this tabloid. They simply have nothing else to hold on to. If they say "Stupid Anthroposophy! Proclaiming that man can outgrow his blind urges and instincts and become a moral human being through knowledge of self and the Cosmos!", that wouldn't sound very clever, would it? That's why, they take few things out of context and try to spread the webs of Maya even more over the sleeping souls.
John 18
22 When Jesus said this, one of the officials nearby slapped him in the face. “Is this the way you answer the high priest?” he demanded.
23 “If I said something wrong,” Jesus replied, “testify as to what is wrong. But if I spoke the truth, why did you strike me?”
Anyway. To address the racial attacks. Difficult topic, especially in our "politically correct" times. Very difficult to say anything without someone getting offended.
Steiner, more than anyone, knew what the races were - not only as bodies but as soul and spiritual structure. What is an objective fact, is that there are human beings on different levels of development. Take a cannibalistic tribe somewhere deep in the jungle, as there are still such tribes that have no contact with modern civilization. Skin color doesn't matter. Let's suppose these cannibals are white, snow white. Now would you think that your next incarnation would be in such a tribe? Probably not. And not because of some blind arrogance but because souls prepare their next incarnations in such a way, that they are able to further their development. There's no use of an incarnation if one can't develop his soul forces even further. Now what would you learn in a cannibalistic tribe? Something that you don't already know? Would it be of any benefit for you to start from scratch - no knowledge of science, philosophy, Christ, Brahman, no nothing?
It's a fact that for one century the Earth has become
very, very different place. There were way more segregated tribes back then. There have been many tribes in Africa that were very active in animal sacrifice and voodoo magic. Again - this has nothing to do with skin color! We are speaking of objective facts. There are groups of humans that form a specific environment where souls of the appropriate levels of development can incarnate. I guess you don't want cannibals roaming your neighborhood and spilling goat blood at your doorway. AGAIN - nothing to do with skin color - white cannibals! It's the level of development of the souls incarnating we're talking about.
It is complete nonsense to speak about modern people of color who live in modern civilization, in the above context. The souls are completely different. If white babies are left on an island (assuming they are somehow cared for until they grow up but without implanting any education) they'll turn into savages. Then when these savages breed, souls will incarnate for which these conditions are appropriate.
As you can see, not only that Anthroposophy doesn't breed racial segregation but exactly the opposite - only through deep knowledge of reality can these problems be resolved. The modern social warriors can never solve the problems because their starting point is already
segregation. Their axiomatic foundations are "we are different. I'm black, you are white. Now we'll have to respect each other." This is the same problem as in philosophy. We axiomatically postulate the divorce between mind and matter and then scratch our heads on how to resolve it. It's the same thing. We can't get anywhere with "blacks and whites are different, now what can we do to unite them?".
When one starts from Spiritual knowledge, one starts from the true foundations - at the core of each one of us there's pure Spirit active. At our stage of evolution this Spirit is experienced most directly in thinking. This thinking can be free. Ego, nation, race, social status, gender are only
clothes of the thinking Spirit. We are free only if we don't
identify with the clothes but see through them.
