Wirres aus der Welt der Anthroposophie | Rudolf Steiner, Demeter, Weleda, Waldorfschule & Co
“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
“You see, thats how things have evolved, that those five races have developed. You might say, in the middle there is black, yellow and white, and as a side branch of the yellow comes brown – these are always the parts that become extinct.
The whites are actually the ones, that develop what is essentially human inside of them. (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, Lecture on March 3rd, 1923 in Dornach, via Humanistische Aktion.
“But the people, who underdeveloped their »I«-being [their »ego«], who were exposed too much to the effects of the sun, they were like plants: they deposited under their skin too many carbon-like elements and became black. This is why the negro is black.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde”, (GA107), page 7
“Judaism has outlived itself, it has no qualification within the modern life of the nations, and the fact that it nevertheless survived is an error in world history, whose aftermath didnt fail to appear.
We are not just talking about the forms of jewish religion, we are foremost talking about the spirit of Judaism, the jewish way of thinking. ” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Literatur”, Gesamtausgabe, GA032, page 156
“Beginning with the completely passive soul of the negro, which is in complete abandon to [devoted to] the environment, to the exterior physique, …” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde”, (GA107), page 7
“But they are the ones, who so denied their »I« that it turned them black, because the exterior forces that come from the sun to the earth simply turned them black.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde”, (GA107), page 8
“The people who had underdeveloped their sense of »I« [the »ego«], migrated to the east, and the surviving remnants of these people later became the negro population of Africa.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Geisteswissenschaftliche Menschenkunde”, (GA107), page 6f
“The white race is the race of the future, the race that works creatively on the spirit.” (Rudolf Steiner)
Source: Rudolf Steiner, “Über das Wesen des Christentums” (GA 349), page 52
