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ideas to be absorbed; it should be taken as a sort of
New Year's gift, a gift which should influence our
New Year, and from now on it should work as that
which we can perceive through the understanding
of the Christ-Impulse, in so far as this helps us to
understand the words of the Elohim, which
resound down to us from the starting point, from
the very primeval beginning of the creation of our
earth. And look upon the intention of the course at
the same time as the starting point of our
Anthroposophical spiritual stream. This must be
Anthroposophical because by means of it will be
more and more recognised how man can in
himself attain to self-knowledge  . He cannot yet
attain to complete self-knowledge, not yet can
Anthropos attain to knowledge of Anthropos, man
to the knowledge of man, so long as this man can
consider what he has to carry out in his own soul
as an affair to be played out between him and
external nature. That the world should appear to us
to be immersed in matter is a thing the Gods have
prepared for us, it is an affair of our own souls, a
question of higher self-knowledge; it is something
that man must himself recognise in his own
manhood, it is a question of Anthroposophy, by
means of which we can come to the perception of
what theosophy may become to mankind. It should
be a feeling of the greatest modesty which impels
a man to belong to the Anthroposophical
movement; a modesty which says: If I want to
spring over that which is an affair of the human
soul and to take at once the highest step into the
divine, humility may very easily vanish from me,
and pride step in, in its place; vanity may easily
install itself May the Anthroposophical Society
also be a starting point in this higher moral sphere;
above all, may it avoid all that has so easily crept
into the theosophical movement, in the way of
pride, vanity, ambition, and want of earnestness in
receiving that which is the highest Wisdom. May
the Anthroposophical Society avoid all this
because from its very starting point, it has already
considered that the settlement with maya is an
affair for the human soul itself.
One should feel that the Anthroposophical Society
ought to be the result of the profoundest human
modesty. For out of this modesty should well up
deep earnestness as regards the sacred truths into
which it will penetrate if we betake ourselves into
this sphere of the supersensible, of the spiritual.
Let us therefore understand the adoption of the
name  Anthroposophical Society in true modesty,
in true humility, saying to ourselves Let all that
remains of that pride and lack of modesty, vanity,
ambition and untruthfulness, that played a part
under the name of Theosophy, be eradicated, if
now, under the sign and device of modesty, we
begin humbly to look up to the, Gods and divine
wisdom, and on the other hand dutifully to study
man and human wisdom, if we reverently
approach Spiritual Science, and dutifully devote
ourselves to Anthroposophy. This Anthroposophy
will lead to the divine and to the Gods. If by its
help we learn in the highest sense to look humbly
and truthfully into our own selves and see how we
must struggle against all maya and error through
self-training and the severest self-discipline, then,
as written on a bronze tablet may there stand
above us the word: Anthroposophy! Let that be an
exhortation to us, that above all we should seek
through it to acquire self-knowledge, modesty, and
in this way endeavour to erect a building founded
upon truth, for truth can only blossom if self-
knowledge lays hold of the human soul in deep
earnestness. What is the origin of all vanity, of all
untruth? The want of self-knowledge. From what
alone can truth spring, from what can true
reverence for divine worlds and divine wisdom
alone come? From true self-knowledge, self-
training, self-discipline. Therefore may that which
shall stream and pulsate through the
Anthroposophical movement serve that purpose.
For these reasons this particular course of lectures
has been given at the starting point of the
Anthroposophical movement, and it should prove
that there is no question of narrowness, but that
precisely through our movement we can extend
our horizon over those distances which comprise
Eastern thought also. But let us take this humbly in
self-educative anthroposophical fashion, by
creating the will within us to discipline and train
ourselves. If Anthroposophy, my dear friends, be
taken up among you in this way, it will then lead
to a beneficial end and will attain a goal that can
extend to each individual and every human society
for their welfare. So let these words be spoken
which shall be the last of this course of lectures,
but something of which perhaps many in the
coming days will take away with them in their
souls, so that it may bear fruit within our
Anthroposophical movement, within which you,
my dear friends, have, so to speak, met together
for the first time. May we ever so meet together in
the sign of Anthroposophy, that we have the right
to call upon words with which we shall now
conclude, words of humility and of self-
knowledge, which we should now at this moment
place as an ideal before our souls. [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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