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ALL ABOUT ANTHROPOSOPHYAFTER RUDOLF STEINER'S DEATH. INTERNAL DIFFERENCES. WORLD WAR. 1925-1945 - 1925 The manifold cultural initiatives continue after Rudolf Steiner’s death and begin to spread internationally. Albert Steffen becomes president of the General Anthroposophical Society, giving it his stamp through his productivity as a writer until the early 1960s... ANTHROPOSOPHY: EARLY YEARS 1902-1912 - 1899/1900 Turn of the century in Berlin. Rudolf Steiner works as an author, lecturer and editor in various circles. He is looking for society structures and forms of collaboration that correspond to the spirit of the new century. The increasingly pressing “social question” cannot be resolved by conventions... ANTHROPOSOPHY HISTORY - In his early twenties, Rudolf Steiner was asked to edit Goethe's scientific writings for a major publication of that writer's complete works ANTHROPOSOPHY IS A PATH OF KNOWLEDGE - 1. Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the Spiritual in the human being to the Spiritual in the universe. It arises in man as a need of the heart, of the life of feeling; and it can be justified only inasmuch as it can satisfy this inner need... ANTHROPOSOPHY METAMORPHOSIS AND IDENTITY QUESTIONS 1990 TO PRESENT - Anthroposophical approaches in various fields are gradually integrated into cultural life in general. From 1989 onwards Anthroposophical Societies and anthroposophical cultural initiatives are established in Eastern Europe and Russia... ANTHROPOSOPHY PLACE IN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY - Steiner built upon Goethe's conception of an imaginative power capable of synthesizing the sense-perceptible form of a thing (an image of its outer appearance) and the concept we have of that thing (an image of its inner structure or nature). Steiner added to this the conception that a further step in the development of thinking is possible when the thinker observes his or her own thought processes... ANTHROPOSOPHY RELATIONSHIP TO RELIGION - Steiner was early in seeing the challenges of a multicultural society. He articulated the need for a spirituality that could respect and unite all religions and cultures (and spoke in this context of twelve equally valid religions or religious viewpoints)... FOUNDING OF THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY AND CULTURAL INITIATIVES 1912-1923 - December 28, 1912. The Anthroposophical Society is founded in Cologne, Germany, with about 3,000 members. The members of its Executive Council are: Marie von Sivers, Michael Bauer and Carl Unger. Rudolf Steiner does not take any official position but acts as an advisor and lecturer. Separation from the Theosophical Society... CENTRAL RESEARCH AND PRACTICE ISSUES OF ANTHROPOSOPHY - The study of anthroposophical spiritual science includes practicing methods of working through texts. Study constitutes the first step towards meditative practice in an anthroposophical sense.... DEVELOPMENT AND CONSOLIDATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY - Anthroposophical work recommences directly after World War II in Germany and expands worldwide, especially through new initiatives in education, medicine, curative education, agriculture, professional unions, periodicals and publishing houses... ESOTERIC PATH OF ANTHROPOSOPHY - “ A person seeking inner development must first of all make the attempt to give up certain formerly held inclinations. Then, new inclinations must be acquired by constantly holding the thought of such inclinations, virtues or characteristics in one's mind... EXPANSION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION OF ANTHROPOSOPHY - Many new schools, farms, study courses, training centers, clinics, pharmaceutical and therapeutic institutions and places for curative education and therapy which have their roots in anthroposophy are started around the world. A new period of development is launched with the founding of Herdecke Community Hospital in Germany in 1969... PRACTICAL WORK ARISING OUT OF ANTHROPOSOPHY - Out of the anthroposophical movement have come over 900 schools world-wide. These are often called Waldorf Schools, after the first such school, founded in 1919; they are also sometimes called Steiner Schools... RESTRUCTURING AND DEEPENING. RUDOLF STEINER FOUNDS THE GENERAL ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY - 1923/1924 Rudolf Steiner founds the General Anthroposophical Society during the Christmas conference December 24, 1923 to January 1, 1924. He asks Albert Steffen, Marie Steiner, Ita Wegman, Elisabeth Vreede and Guenther Wachsmuth to serve on the initiative-oriented Executive Council and takes on the role of chairman himself... THE HUMAN BEING FOR ANTHROPOSOPHY - Steiner often described the human being as consisting of an eternal spirit, an evolving soul and a temporal body, giving a detailed analysis of each of these three realms... WHAT IS ANTHROPOSOPHY? - Anthroposophy, also called "spiritual science", is a spiritual/religious philosophy based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, which states that anyone who "conscientiously cultivates sense-free thinking" can attain experience of and insights into the spiritual world...
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