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receiving pictures of the angels

More from the literature list and Liberal Conspiracy's article:

'On the same reading list we find Robert Trostli’s ‘Physics is Fun’, a sourcebook for Steiner teachers that has this to say about the ‘Task of the Teacher’ in Steiner education:

“The curriculum of the Waldorf school prepares students to receive the pictures of the Angels. Which subjects help students develop the impulse of brotherhood? Which subjects help them develop a sense of what the human being really is? Geography and the foreign languages. Which subjects help students develop a sense for the hidden divinity within each human being? History and literature. Which subjects help students develop the ability to reach the Spirit through thinking? Science and mathematics.”'

Of course, anthroposophy is taught -- but it is taught indirectly.

'Apologists for Steiner education routinely argue that anthroposophy is not taught to children in Steiner schools. This is true only in a very limited sense. The connection between anthroposophy and Steiner education’s curriculum/teaching methods is not made explicit to either the children or, for the most part, their parents ...'

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historical incarnations

i'm reading an illuminating old speech, held by WJ Stein at an anthroposophical meeting in the 1920s.

"Between 809 and 869 A.D. Alexander and Aristotle were re-­‐incarnated together, though hardly known to one another. And that period was extremely important for Anthroposophists who were also incarnated, and for Anthroposophy generally. But actually it was soon after 809 that they were together again in the Spiritual World."

Lots of people/souls alive now seem to have been incarnate also in the 9th century, the speech claims.

"Our karma is bound up with the fate of the First Hierarchy."

"We souls, who are karmically connected with this, have, as our compensating task, to re-­‐unite East and West. This is as precisely right for the present time ..."

and then, moon streams that cannot be spiritualized, latin peoples that must disappear, archangels supplanting heredity... and so forth. The holy spirit will lead back the moon-forces.

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anthroposophic walking

(I want to know why there's not one aspect of life that cannot be anthroposofied. That's a side note.) The Parenting Passageway has a new blog post about anthroposophic walking. It's true. Babies can't walk, the head is too wobbly, apparently.

"Most of all, anthroposophy sees walking as very important for several reasons.  Walking upright differentiates man from animals.  “Endowed as they are with a horizontally oriented spine, the animals remain part of the world.  They are overwhelmed by sense impressions and the abyss between self and world does not open.”  In anthroposophic terms, walking is also related to the ability to control feelings and moods and also the conscious use of memory."

Of course, in non-anthroposophical terms this is silly. First of all, what about penguins? They walk on two legs. Secondly, walking isn't related to the ability to control feelings -- and frankly I'm not so sure human's "conscious use of memory" is very different in nature from animals' use of memory. By that I mean, it's not as "conscious" as humans' would prefer to believe.

Also, mr Dog walks on 2 legs and consciously remembers everything I'm hoping he will forget. The stuff I'd prefer him to remember, he conveniently ignores.

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"light is a garment for spiritual beings"

the newsletter of a canadian anthroposophical society continues:

Different kinds of light are also indications of different beings from the hierarchies working and weaving in the light. And so the question arises, which spiritual beings are working in this light? ... the Prologue from John’s Gospel reveals for us a highest Being who incarnates in life and light on the way to incarnation as Man. The Logos works with and through other beings in the hierarchies, and the great span from the distant past to the distant future suggests that the spirit of light in the North is a Being intimately connected to the Christ. The distant past brings forth images from the hyperborean time when the sun was still united with the earth. The distant future points to a time when the sun will again unite with the earth.

The blog post is about a conference trip, during which

[t]hrough artistic experiences, the heroes, prophetesses and divine beings of sagas from the North were impressed into our sensibilities, creating organs of perception in us to perceive “ordinary” people as representatives of great archetypes.

We also learn that the northern lands are closer to the treshold between life and death than life in southern landscapes can be. (And I'm right now on the treshold of sleep.)

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the births of jesus (the two of them)

what about this book: The incredible births of Jesus.

Those who are unfamiliar with anthroposophy: Rudolf Steiner taught that there was not one jesus but two. Or rather, that the jesus of the bible was in reality (whatever that is in all this) two different physical persons. But then there's a bit of a complication with the soul aspect of this arrangement.

Another book tip from the same website The Burning Bush comes with this warning:

The casual reader should be cautioned, however, that judgment should be put on hold until the account can be seen in the context of a broader understanding of anthroposophy. Otherwise, it may appear bizarre in the extreme.

This statement is curious:

Any suggestion that Steiner’s works can be segregated into those that pertain to the Bible and those that do not is unthinkable.

From the same website, a quote from Christopher Bamford is quite interesting:

From the beginning, Steiner saw his task as the rescue of humanity from materialism and secularism. He knew that for evolution the divine work of the Gods to continue in an organic, healthy, direction, the world and human beings which are essentially not two, but one must once again be seen and lived as the profound spiritual reality they are. The task of Anthroposophy, he recognized, could not proceed piecemeal, but called for a renewal of culture as a whole: a bringing together of science, religion, and art in sacred unity. It was in this sense that Steiner described the work of Anthroposophy as the renewal of ancient Mysteries. But renewal here does not mean repetition. The old must die away for the new to come into being. But it cannot simply be replaced by something already known, no matter how illustrious or well tested. Rather, something new must be created. But such a new revelation can no longer be received passively from the Gods, as was the case in previous epochs. It must now be created by, in, and through human beings.

Website: Bible and Anthroposophy.

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