#anthroposophy

Marcel Antonio

Who can fear Too many stars, though each in heaven shall roll, Too many flowers, though each shall crown the year? Say thou dost love me, love me love—toll The silver uterance!—only minding, Dear, To love me also in silence with thy soul.

—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Because dancing kills the ego, and once the ego has been killed, there is no further obstacle to prevent you from joining God.

—Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

The God Mercury is an Archangelic Being. 

Zinaida Gippius in 1904 - Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House)

The present cycle of lectures was given in 1906 in Paris and the report of it by Edouard Schuré now published in English in its entirety for the first time marks the beginning of a new phase in the life of Rudolf Steiner. Accompanied by Marie von Sievers (later Marie Steiner), Rudolf Steiner had been invited, by the famous French author and dramatist Edouard Schuré, to address a group consisting mainly of Russians in a small villa on the outskirts of Paris. Among them were writers of note such as Dimitri Merejkowski, his wife Zinaida Hippius, a poetess in her own right, and S. Minski. Originally it had been planned that the course be held on Russian soil but the revolution of 1905 had made that impossible.

Prophetess (2026) by Marcel Antonio

Life is a rosary of small tribulations, and the philosopher tells its beads with a laugh. ... I am familiar with lovers: they are people who never do something for nothing.

—Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers

But even as the plant does not know the laws according to which it grows, so the poet does not require the full knowledge of what he writes.

—Rudolf Steiner, Theosophy & Rosicrucianism: Lecture VIII

And what is it that grows like hair on dead skulls? And what is it that grows like nails on talons, The talons that Destiny took upon herself —just because—to hold a wake over And bury in the foothills of a mountain of ash? Life, I suppose, or this star-governed inertia, The epiphany in the double mouth of one whose throat has been slit. … And I saw women leaving Trianón, Eva, Ulises With wrinkled skirts and disheveled necklines: a café con leche And two donuts in Pitu Colomer so they could return To the great current. And I said: let’s go, it’s getting light, let morning wipe away what’s left of the nightmare.

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Portrait of Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck (1890) by Franz von Lenbach

You see, the leader of the German Left Party in the Austrian Reichsrat was the deputy Herbst. Herbst's policy developed out of the policy after 1866; it was a policy that was welded together out of a certain aspiration to give Austria a kind of German character, but at the same time to give it a kind of abstract liberal character. This policy resisted the occupation of Bosnia, particularly in the person of Deputy Herbst, because the Herbst people said to themselves: If Austria gets any more Slavs – and it was an addition of Slavs that they got there with Bosnia and Herzegovina, except for the Turkish element, which was also found there. If Austria gets more Slavs, it will be all the less possible for the German element to be given special priority in Austria in the future. Well, this fall was indeed an epigrammatic rebuff by Bismarck. Bismarck was determined to create some kind of confusion in Austria, to make Austria shift its center of gravity to the east, so that no more aspirations could arise on the part of the Habsburgs against the aspirations of the Hohenzollerns. For a large part of 19th-century Central European politics, especially in the mid-19th century and the second half, was actually a dispute between the two dynasties, the Habsburg and the Hohenzollern dynasties. Bismarck, who wanted to expand the Hohenzollern power base, wanted to push Austria towards the Slavs, towards the East, and so it suited him very little that these Herbst people in Austria were working against him. Bismarck then also coined a witty epigram, as was his way, which was one of those epigrams of political life that killed the one they hit. He called the Herbstleute the “Herbstzeitlosen” (autumn daffodils), maintaining that the time simply demanded that Austria's center of gravity be shifted eastward, out of Austria, and that anyone who did not know how to adapt to this temporal imperative was an “Herbstzeitlose,” because the leader of this Austrian German liberal party was Herbst. 

—Rudolf Steiner, Social Ideas, Social Reality, Social Practice II: Lecture 5

Romantic nationalist postcard, text Frihed, Lig(hed), Broderskab, Norge(s) Grundlov 1814. ("Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Constitution of Norway 1814") by Andreas Bloch (1905)

The old clairvoyance had for a long time vanished in the rest of Europe, while it was still preserved in the North. Only very gradually, slowly and by degrees has the outlook of man become limited to the picture of the physical world. Thus at the time when Christianity began to spread abroad, that which is expressed in the Balder myth, in the death of Balder, had become true for the majority of men. There were, however, still a few who were able to see directly that which the Scandinavian experienced clairvoyantly. … On the other hand the peoples lying more towards the West and the North have the task, under the guidance of their Folk-souls, of directing their gaze out into the world, and of seeing what is there to be seen on the physical plane, and of perfecting that which has to play a part on that plane. The Germanic Scandinavian peoples had also the special task of perfecting this as they alone could, because they still enjoyed the blessing of being able to see into the spiritual world with the old clairvoyance, and to carry the primeval experiences which they perceived so vividly, into that which had to be arranged on the physical plane.