The real practitioners

Somebody has always turned out to be a real practitioner who is able to look out at the immediate present. Who was the practitioner at that time when in the last century the postage stamp was invented and introduced in life which reshaped our whole system of communications, our whole social life since that time? …

About the immortality of the human soul

One of the most central questions for human life is how to gain knowledge about the immortality of the soul, about the eternal being of the human soul beyond birth and death. What could be of more interest to the human soul than this question? The human being focuses on this question out of interest. …

Despair and desolation are all that our civilisation can spread over the earth

If the spirit is denied all possibility of imparting to men's souls what it can give, and what the Anthroposophical Movement has the will to convey, this external culture might for a short while be able to hold its own. Ultimately, however, people would ask themselves what they had gained and say: “We have wireless …

In the beginning was the Word

The first words of the Gospel of St. John are incisive, although, perhaps, very difficult to understand, as many may say. But should the most profound mysteries of the world be expressed in trivial language? Is it not a strange point of view, a real insult to what is Holy when one says, for example, …

Overwhelmed by technology

Many things seem to go smoothly these days because they are done mechanically. But the development of technology is spinning away over people's heads. It is increasingly becoming a huge force that works on its own and that people cannot stop with their own available abilities. We can face these machine forces only by striving …