Wirres aus der Welt der Anthroposophie | Rudolf Steiner, Demeter, Weleda, Waldorfschule & Co
“In the beginning of Atlantis, the human shape was ape-like. This body then has evolved. But the ape-like figures partly fell into decadence, and became todays monkeys. Monkeys are therefore biological brothers of man.
So that all animals that live around us are degenerated, discharged humans.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, "Vierzehnter Vortrag”, Paris, June 10th, 1906, GA94
“When the Negroes emigrate to the west, they can not gather as much light and warmth as they did in africa. So they turn red as copper, become redskins. That results from being forced to reflect some of that light and warmth.
This then glows copper red. They can not resist that. This is why the redskins get extinct in the west, in turn become a race that is ceasing to exist, dying of their own nature, that is receiving too little light and warmth, dying out because of the mundane.
The whites are actually the ones that develop the humaneness inside of them.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, Lecture on March 3rd, 1923 in Dornach. GA 349, page 61f
“Man is in opposition to the outside world. The soul-mind strives to constantly absorbe him.
This is why we are flaking off, chipping off all the time.
And when the spirit is not strong enough, we have to cut off pieces, like fingernails; because the spirit, infiltrating from the outside, desires to primingly destroy them.”(Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, „Allgemeine Menschenkunde als Grundlage der Pädagogik“, GA 293, Pages 93f
“We show, that the british isles have risen and fallen four times. That is where we come back to the term of old Atlantis, in a geological way. That can be determined by the layers.
So we try to put these things into context, but we must not resile to tell children about the old land of Atlantis. We must not skip this.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, Quote and drawing: ”Seminars with teachers of the Free Waldorf Schools in Stuttgart”, 1919 bis 1924, GA300, pages 84-85
“So the child was dead. The outer, materialistic view could say: Well, by accident the moving van tilted over at this hour, the child got underneath it and got squashed. From a spiritual view, this is utter nonsense.
Because what we have got here is the childs karma, and the childs karma guided every single circumstance. It also guided the moving van just in the hour, in which the child needed its death; because the childs karma wanted it this way.”(Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Vorträge vor Mitgliedern der Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft”, GA159, page 42. More at: Steinerquotes.tumblr.com
“There is a biography of Schubert in which it is said that he looked rather like a negro.
There is not a grain of truth in it. He actually had a pleasing, attractive face.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner on composer Franz Schubert in “Karmic relationships, Esoteric Studies Volume I”, page 123
