From membership to community, from community to festival life, from festival life to the cosmic ritual. Our following together the path toward the good star of anthroposophy restores truth in karma, nurtures the soul life in the individual and in humanity, and creates the potential for a universal happiness to dissolve individual sorrows, as Goethe described it in his fairy tale ~ until there is nothing unbeautiful in all the world.
The Anthroposophical Society in America
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Anthroposophy embraces a spiritual view of the human being and the cosmos, with an emphasis on knowing, referred to as spiritual science, rather than faith, It is a path in which the human heart and hand, and especially our capacity for thinking, are essential. Anthroposophy leads, in Rudolf Steiner's words, "from the spirit in the human being to the spirit in the universe."
Humanity (ANTHROPOS) has the inherent wisdom (SOPHIA) to transform both itself and the world. Today, when many aspects of our culture are in crisis, and people are easily drawn into cynicism and despair, anthroposophy's vision of human potential is a source of hope and renewal.
By anthroposophy I understand a scientific research of the spiritual world which sees through the one sidedness of both normal, natural science and traditional mysticism. Anthroposophy seeks to develop those forces of soul not yet active in normal consciousness and science but which make
possible such a penetration into the super sensible world.
Rudolf Steiner
