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342. Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed Christian Spiritual Activity: Discussion 13 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
No one today can be a Christian in the sense that one must understand it, who does not have a positive relationship to the supersensible Christ-being. Therefore Adolf Harnack is no Christian to me.
And then he joined us and relatively quickly recognized the necessity to understand the Mystery of Golgotha and to come to terms with a supersensible conception of this Mystery of Golgotha.
Except for the Catholic Church, of course, which must be understood in such a way that it is not at all doomed, because it works with extensive means and must therefore be regarded as something completely different.
342. Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed Christian Spiritual Activity: Third Lecture 14 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
Thus, the origin of Christianity is derived from the mental illness of Christ Jesus, which he fell prey to. It would be an understatement to say that any description is too strong when one wants to point out that the entire so-called intellectual life of the present, which moves in intellectualisms, must actually lead to the undermining of precisely the Christian-religious element, and with the greatest speed.
It is precisely because man deceives himself into believing that he has grasped the entire content of the world, it is precisely through this universal element that man feels intellectually satisfied and believes that he no longer needs any other element to comprehend the world, to feel the world. It is understandable that intellectualism has been able to gain the upper hand in our time, because man believes that he can understand the world in intellectual terms.
That is what indicates the reasons why the universalistic intellectual life in particular fragments and atomizes religious life, so that the particular form of modern science must undermine religious life. And the strongest force for the destruction of religious life is actually present in those university and other educational theologians who have adopted the scientific thinking of our time in order to understand the religious, the facts of religion as such.
342. Anthroposophical Foundations for a Renewed Christian Spiritual Activity: Fourth Lecture 14 Jun 1921, Stuttgart

Rudolf Steiner
That is, after all, what more or less clearly expressed underlies our current knowledge. This realization is immediately dispelled when one considers how humans integrate into the cosmos quite differently [than animals].
In the first three lines one would express essentially how the human being still stands under the influence of the conditions of heredity, how he is born out of the father principle of the world.
Certain powers in relation to natural life have definitely declined, and that is why we do not understand many things that are told in biblical history and that mean something quite different from what man associates with them today.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: Fever Versus Shock 30 Dec 1922, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
A large amount of food accumulates in a man's abdomen that he cannot assimilate. In order to understand what is at work here, we must take a closer look at the human organism. What actually happens when the abdomen does not work properly?
The best care for the unborn child naturally requires an understanding of these matters. Pregnant women thus often are not at all satisfied when they obtain what they momentarily crave; as soon as they have it, they crave another taste.
If you give this some thought, you discover what is actually contained in the materialistic viewpoint, which undermines human dignity. A real and true knowledge of the human being leads us instead to the realization that the soul is already there, has always lived.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Brain and Thinking 05 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
These matters must be fully comprehended, and it is therefore important to get to the bottom of things and understand what really lies at their foundation. The very first sentences taught little children in school today—not directly, but indirectly—are mostly rubbish!
At other times, you will see the beetles arrive, run around the dead mouse, and then start digging. First, they dig the ground under the mouse and then all around it. The mouse gradually sinks deeper and deeper into the earth as they continue digging.
The real reason anthroposophy is considered heresy is that those who are engaged in so-called science do not think and cannot understand anthroposophy. This is an aspect of our entire civilization. It is possible today to be a great scientist or scholar without being able really to think.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Effects of Alcohol on Man 08 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Minute, detrimental influences from outside, even substances that the body otherwise needs to sustain itself, can undermine human health, indeed, can undermine generally the entire organization of the human being. Man can withstand a good deal, but beyond a certain point the organism fails.
This does not infringe on human freedom, but understanding causes a person to say to himself, “Why, this is shocking! I am harmed right into my bones!”
The educated gentleman knows it all. A simple person can't understand everything!” The fact is that the lecturer himself doesn't fully comprehend what he is talking about.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Power of Intelligence as the Effect of the Sun — Beaver Lodges and Wasps' Nests 10 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Because anything relating to reproduction of living beings must be thoroughly understood, I wish to make use of the time today to speak a bit more about this question from a completely different perspective.
If one wishes to understand the phenomena of the world, therefore, one should not rely too much on speculation; one's speculation is not at all the important thing.
I wanted to add this so that you could understand better everything that relates to Mr. E's question. Now think all this over. Should you wish to ask further questions, I hope to be here next Saturday.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Effect of Nicotine — Vegetarian and Meat Diets — On Taking Absinthe — Twin Births 13 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
When one must sit down and read some difficult book, the blood is stimulated. As soon as an effort has to be made to understand something, the blood is stimulated, but people do not want that anymore. They quite dislike having to exert themselves to understand something. That is something quite repugnant to people. They do not want to understand anything! This unwillingness to understand causes their blood to thicken. Such thick blood circulates more slowly.
You can recognize the extraordinary importance of thoroughly understanding the entire human being in order to determine how a given substance works in the human body. Now, man constantly eats.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: Diphtheria and Influenza — Crossed Eyes 20 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
In this roundabout way, all such matters naturally can come under consideration. A connection can only be claimed, however, if all other factors have been excluded.
What does diphtheria really consist of? Diphtheria can be understood only when one knows that man is actually kept alive from two directions—from the outside in and from the inside out.
In dealing with a patient suffering from diphtheria, for instance, it is under certain conditions best to place him in a rosemary bath so he can smell the rosemary. Repeated long rosemary baths will strengthen the activity of his skin.
348. Health and Illness, Volume II: The Relationship Between the Breathing and the Circulation of the Blood — Jaundice — Smallpox — Rabies 27 Jan 1923, Dornach
Translated by Maria St. Goar

Rudolf Steiner
Figure 1 What can be done under these circumstances? Well, people already do the only thing that can be done in such cases. They vaccinate with cowpox vaccine.
In the same way, when the earth was still the mother of the human being—although the earth was then a kind of comet—he participated in all that the earth underwent. His pulse beat and breathing were that of the earth's pulse beat and breathing. It therefore can be said that it is most remarkable when, if we go back into ancient times when human beings knew instinctively and were not clever as they are today, they always called the earth “mother”—Mother Earth and so forth.

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