Discussion of the article ‘Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts’ of Rudolf Steiner from 1882. Part one
It is one thing to read a text, quite another to understand what is said in it. Here, the question is: What did the author mean? In this article, an important point that recurs several times is the relationship between sensual perception that comes from outside and conceptual understanding that comes from inside. Natural science […]
Only Possible Critique of the Atomistic Concepts
In Antwerpen we studied this article. In the coming weeks I will describe some results of this study. At first a quote. ‘Modern natural science regards Experience as the only source for the investigation of truth. And not wrongly, to be sure. Its area is the realm of outer, spatial things and temporal processes. How […]
The heart as a sense
Reprise of the text from 9-23-2015 ‘If we would be only thinkers, and had nothing else in our souls than the capability of thinking concepts and combining them with logic, or analysing complicated thoughts with logic, we would really not be able ever to know whether something is true or not We would be in […]
Feeling as a musical composition
Our feeling potency is not from this world. Modern science laughs about words like this, but in older times – and also in coming times – we knew and will know that the feelings of human beings are composed from the tones of the harmony of the spheres. Johannes Kepler, although a scientist in a […]
The Conversation II
Last week I received a question to contemplate the part that the feelings, the emotions play in a conversation. It is clear that they play the main role in forming the opinions. One could say – with a certain right – that our opinions are feelings that have crystallized to thoughts. Not fully of course, […]
The conversation
A wonderful point of view on egoism is given in the work of Rudolf Steiner. It is a view that I can fully embrace, and the solution is even more wonderful: a way of conquering a mostly unseen rigid egoism… In normal thinking we live in our centre, from which we form our thoughts, or […]
The count of Saint Germain
In the last text I gave an image of the Count of Saint Germain, because he is the great teacher of the equilibrium between thinking and will. Through this equilibrium a harmonious feeling originates. The individual that lived in the Count was, according to Rudolf Steiner, Christian Rosencreutz. He is the teacher of spirituality in […]
A hymn in prose
During the course of one night – I was 32 years old – I read the book ‘Theosophy’ by Rudolf Steiner. It opened the doors to the All for me. Whereas prior to this I had quietly denied everything irrational, this book made the irrational fully rational. As a result of this it happened that […]
After summer
Two verses from the calendar of the soul from Rudolf Steiner:The spiritual gift in the inner being of our souls is felt more clearly now, and I can perceive that it grows and bears fruit, that it is being given to my self, becoming stronger. It is not thinking that recognizes this power, nor is […]
The substance of thinking
As a foundation of spiritual science we have to come to the substance of thinking. Every-day thoughts, also scientific thoughts, are just images – whether true or not, right or not. This is the characteristic of intellectual thinking. We don’t have to make greater discretion in the word ‘thinking’. Every thought is an image and […]