Der Vielseitigkeit des geistigen Sehers, Wissenschaftlers und Philosophen Rudolf Steiner verdanken wir

Rudolf Steiner beschrieb in seinen Vorträgen GA 170 Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Ge-
schichte im Jahr 1916 ¹ den Stoffwechsel des Menschen als der Stoffumstülpung in einer Abfolge von sieben definierten Lebensprozessen (Schritten):
☛ 1. Atmung ⇒ 2. Wärmung ⇒ 3. Ernährung ⇒ 4. Absonderung ⇒ 5. Erhaltung ⇒ 6. Wachstum ⇒ 7. Reproduktion.

Rudolf Steiner, ~1905

• [Ich habe betont, dass der Mensch eigentlich zwölf Sinne hat]. Zwölf Sternbil-
  der, durch die der Sonne Kreislauf im Jahre geht, draußen im Makrokosmos – zwölf Sinne, in denen das Ich des Menschen eigentlich lebt hier auf dem phy-
  sischen Plan! Gewiss, die Dinge sind draußen, in der Zeit aufeinanderfolgend
  etwas anders: Die Sonne bewegt sich vom Widder durch den Stier und so wei-
  ter bis wieder zurück durch die Fische zum Widder. Aber der jährliche Sonnen-
  kreislauf geht durch diese zwölf Sternbilder. Alles, auch was wir in uns tragen, was wir in uns seelisch erleben, steht im Verhältnis zur Außenwelt durch unsere zwölf Sinne:
  1. Tastsinn,
  2. Lebenssinn,
  3. Bewegungssinn,
  4. Gleichgewichtssinn,
  5. Geruchssinn,
  6. Geschmackssinn,
  7. Sehsinn,
  8. Wärmesinn,
  9. Gehörsinn,
  10. Sprachsinn,
  11. Denksinn,
  12. Ichsinn.

Gedicht

• Das Schöne bewundern,
  Das Wahre behüten,
  Das Edle verehren,
  Das Gute beschließen;
  Es führet den Menschen,
  Im Leben zu Zielen,
  Im Handeln zum Rechten,
  Im Fühlen zum Frieden,
  Im Denken zum Lichte;
  Und lehrt ihn vertrauen
  Auf göttliches Walten
  In allem, was ist:
  Im Weltenall,
  Im Seelengrund.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) kroatisch-österreichischer Begründer der Anthroposophie, Mystiker, Kulturphilosoph, Architekt, Literaturkritiker, Sozialreformer, Autor, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Kindergebet

• Vom Kopf bis zum Fuß bin ich Gottes Bild
  Vom Herzen bis in die Hände fühl ich Gottes Hauch
  Sprech ich mit dem Mund, folg ich Gottes Willen
  Wenn ich Gott erblick überall, in Mutter, Vater,
  In allen lieben Menschen in Tier und Blume
  In Baum und Stein, gibt Furcht mir nichts
  Nur Liebe zu allem, was um mich ist.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) kroatisch-österreichischer Begründer der Anthroposophie, Mystiker, Kulturphilosoph, Architekt, Literaturkritiker, Sozialreformer, Autor, zitiert in: Gebete für Kinder – Rudolf Steiner

Archons and demons

• R. Steiner: That little girl L.K. in the first grade must have something really very wrong inside. There is not much we can do. Such cases are increasing in which children are born with a human form, but are not really human beings in relation to their highest I; instead, they are filled with beings that do not belong to the human class. Quite a number of people have been born
  since the nineties without an I, that is, they are not reincarnated, but are human forms filled with a sort of natural demon.
  There are quite a large number of older people going around who are actually not human beings, but are only natural;
  they are human beings only in regard to their form. We cannot, however, create a school for demons.
  A teacher: How is that possible?
  R. Steiner: Cosmic error is certainly not impossible. The relationships of individuals coming into earthly existence
  have long been determined. There are also generations in which individuals have no desire to come into earthly exis-
  tence and be connected with physicality, or immediately leave at the very beginning. In such cases, other beings that
  are not quite suited step in. This is something that is now quite common, that human beings go around without an I;
  they are actually not human beings, but have only a human form. They are beings like nature \spirits, which we do not
  recognize as such because they go around in a human form. They are also quite different from human beings in regard
  to everything spiritual. They can, for example, never remember such things as sentences; they have a memory only for
  words, not for sentences. The riddle of life is not so simple. When such a being dies, it returns to nature from which it
  came. The corpse decays, but there is no real dissolution of the etheric body, and the natural being returns to nature.
  It is also possible that something like an automaton could occur. The entire human organism exists, and it might be
  possible to automate the brain and develop a kind of pseudomorality. I do not like to talk about such things since we
  have often been attacked even without them. Imagine what people would say if they heard that we say there are
  people who are not human beings. Nevertheless, these are facts. Our culture would not be in such a decline if
  people felt more strongly that a number of people are going around who, because they are completely ruthless,
  have become something that is not human, but instead are demons in human form.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, mystic esotericist,
  founder of anthroposophy, author, Faculty Meetings With Rudolf Steiner Book 8, Volume 2, S. 649-650, 3. July 1923, Rudolph
  Steiner Press, paperback, August 1998

• There are beings in the spiritual realms for whom anxiety and fear emanating from human beings offer welcome food. When humans have no anxiety and fear, then these creatures starve. People not yet sufficiently convinced of this statement could
  understand it to be meant comparatively only. But for those who are familiar with this phenomenon, it is a reality. If fear
  and anxiety radiates from people and they break out in panic, then these creatures find welcome nutrition and they be-
  come more and more powerful. These beings are hostile towards humanity. Everything that feeds on negative feelings,
  on anxiety, fear and superstition, despair or doubt, are in reality hostile forces in supersensible worlds, launching cruel
  attacks on human beings, while they are being fed. Therefore, it is above all necessary to begin with that the person
  who enters the spiritual world overcomes fear, feelings of helplessness, despair and anxiety. But these are exactly the
  feelings that belong to contemporary culture and materialism; because it estranges people from the spiritual world, it is especially suited to evoke hopelessness and fear of the unknown in people, thereby calling up the above mentioned hostile forces against them. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, mystic esotericist, founder of anthroposophy, author, Nesta Carsten-Krüger, translator, Die Erkenntnis der Seele und des Geistes, GA 56, S. 145, Berlin, 12. December 1907

• I have told you that the spirits of darkness are going to inspire their human hosts, in whom they will be dwelling, to find a vaccine that will drive all inclination towards spirituality out of people's souls when they are still very young, and this will happen in a roundabout way through the living body. Today, bodies are vaccinated against one thing and another; in future, children will be vaccinated with a substance which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will make them immune, so that they do not develop foolish inclinations connected with spiritual life – 'foolish' here, of course, in the eyes of materialists. […]

• A longing will arise (and become) general opinion: Whatever is spiritual, whatever is of the spirit, is nonsense, is madness! Endeavours to achieve this will be made by bring-
  ing out remedies to be administered by inoculation just as inoculations have been developed as a protection against diseases, only these inoculations will influence the human body in a way that will
  make it refuse to give a home to the spiritual inclinations of the soul.
  People will be inoculated against the inclination to entertain spiritual ideas. Endeavours in this direction will be made; inoculations will be tested that already in childhood will make people lose any urge for spiritual life.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, Lecture 3
  Secret Brotherhoods and the Mystery of the Human Double: Seven Lectures, Zurich, 6. November 2017, S. 90-91, Rudolf Steiner Press, revised paperback edition, 10. May 2004
  • People will actually long for the time when the Spiritual is universally deemed to be insanity, craziness! Attempts will be made to achieve this end by inoculations; just as viruses have been discovered as means of protection against illnesses, so certain inoculations will be used to influence the human body in such a way that it provides no place for the spiritual proclivities of the soul. Human beings will be immunised against any predisposition for spiritual ideas [...] [S]uch, at least, will be the endeavour. They will try by inoculation to bring it about that even in childhood, human beings lose the urge towards the spiritual life.
    Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, lecture 1 "Behind the Scenes of External Happenings", GA 178, Rudolf Steiner Publishing, 1947

• The ideas of ancient religious founders gave something to human souls that awakened them spiritually and gave them strength to perceive in the etheric world, and that also means to lead a conscious life after death. Assimilating modern spiritual science will in turn give our soul the strength to develop the necessary power of thinking after death to consci-
  ously perceive its etheric environment. Both people of ancient times who followed their religious founders and modern people who are willing to understand spiritual science will be able to find their way after death.
  Only one type of person will have difficulty in finding his or her way after death. In fact, this type will frequently not even experience a life after death, because it will have become so dulled and obscured. This sort of person is the dyed-in-the-wool materialist who clings to images of the physical world and does not want to develop any strength to perceive the world we enter after death. In terms of the soul-spiritual, to be a materialist really means the same as wanting to destroy one’s eyes and ears in the physical world, gradually deadening one’s senses. It is no different from someone saying, “These eyes — they can't be trusted, they provide only impressions of light. Away with them! These ears — they per-
  ceive only vibrations, not the one single truth. Get rid of them! Get rid of the senses, one by one!” To be a materialist in
  regard to the spiritual world makes as much sense as this attitude in regard to the sensory world.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, GA 154, Part 1, Understanding the Spiritual World, "The Presence of the Dead", Berlin, 18. April 1914

• For the spiritual scientist, anger is also the harbinger of something quite different. Life shows us that a person who is unable to flare up with anger at injustice or folly will never develop true kindness and love. Equally, a person who edu-
  cates himself through noble anger will have a heart abounding in love, and through love he will do good. Love and
  kindness are the obverse of noble anger. Anger that is overcome and purified will be transformed into the love that
  is its counterpart. A loving hand is seldom one that has never been clenched in response to injustice or folly. Anger
  and love are complementary.
  Transmuted anger is love in action. That is what we learn from reality. Anger in moderation has the mission of lea-
  ding human beings to love; we can call it the teacher of love.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, GA 58, Neun Vorträge, Berlin 14. Oktober bis 9. Dezember 1909 und München 5. Dezember 1909 und 14. März 1910, Metamorphoses of the Soul Paths of Experience Vol. 1, "Lecture 2: The Mission of Anger", Berlin, 5. December 1909

• When we look at what we call the higher self of man, the expression nationality loses its meaning. For what is meant by nationality is laid aside, when we go through the gate of death. And if we want to be spiritually aspiring people in earnest,
  it is fitting to remember that man, in successive incarnations, does not belong to one but to many different nationalities
  and that which connects him to a specific nationality, must be laid aside the moment we go through the gate of death.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, Rudolf Steiner – GA 157 – "Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale", S. 28, Berlin, 31. October 1914

• This effect of 'untruth as truth' contains an enormous force of evil. And this force of evil is made full use of in various ways and by different interests.
  Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, The Karma of Untruthfulness, volume 1, Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1988

• Those who apprehend reality only in an intellectual way alienate themselves from it. In place of reality, which is actually a unity, they establish an arbitrary multiplicity, or diversity, which has nothing to do with the essential nature of reality.
  This is the source of discord between intellectually-pursued knowledge and the human heart. The thinking of many
  people is not developed enough to reach a unified worldview that they can grasp with complete conceptual clarity, but
  they may be quite capable of penetrating the inner harmony of the world through their feeling.
  The heart gives them what the trained scientist receives through reason. Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) Croation-born
  Austrian cultural philosopher, architect, literary critic, social reformer, author, source unknown, 1886