Leslie Rice

rudolf steiner was the founder of the waldorf schools and curriculum. The
following is a collection of quotes that I came across when I looked into
the waldorf approach to education. An eye opener to say the least!

Leslie, who can never resist an opportunity to out the true purpose of the
steiner/waldorf movement.

"Today we study the true essence of human thought so we can train the child
in the right kind of thinking"
rudolf steiner

"You see, when we really study science and history, we must conclude that if
people become increasingly strong, they will also become increasingly
stupid. If the blonds and blue-eyed people die out, the human race will
become increasingly dense if men do not arrive at a form of intelligence
that is independent of blondness. Blond hair actually bestows intelligence.
It is indeed true that the more the fair individuals die out the more will
the instinctive wisdom of humans vanish." rudolf steiner

" Jewry as such has outlived itself for a long time. It does not have the
right to exist in the modern life of nations. That it has survived,
nevertheless is a mistake of world history, of which the consequences were
bound to come."
rudolf steiner

* "The girl L.K. in class 1...is one of those cases that are occurring more
and more frequently where children are born and human forms exist which
actually, with regard to the highest member the ego, are not human at all
but are inhabited by beings who do not belong to the human race...They are
very different from human beings where spiritual matters are concerned. For
instance they can never memorise sentences, only words. I do not like
speaking about these things, as there is considerable opposition about this.
Just imagine what people would say if they heard that we are talking about
human beings who are not human beings. Nevertheless these are facts.
Furthermore, there would not be such a decline of culture if there were a
strong enough feeling for the fact that some people, the ones who are
particularly ruthless, are not human beings at all but demons in human form.
"But do not let us broadcast this. There is enough opposition already.
Things like this give people a terrible shock. People were frightfully
shocked when I had to say that a quite famous university professor with a
great reputation had had a very short period between death and re-birth and
was a re-incarnated negro scientist.
"But don"t let us publicise these things." (Steiner, 1923, CT-4 pp. 36-37)

"Whoever develops himself upwards, takes upon himself a tremendous
responsibility, that is the great tragedy; the corollary of every saint is
that a great number of beings are thrust down. There would be no development
if this kind of thrusting down did not take place. A man must continually
thrust others down, as he develops himself upwards. That is why all
development which takes place out of self-interest is evil and
reprehensible; it is only justifiable if done for the development of other
beings." steiner [1905]


"We are within the great Root Race of humanity, which has peopled the earth,
since the land on which we now live rose up out of the inundations of the
ocean. Ever since the Atlantean Race began slowly to disappear, the great
Aryan Race has been the dominant one on earth. If we contemplate ourselves,
we here in Europe are thus the fifth Sub-Race of the great Aryan Root Race.
The first Sub-Race lived in the distant past in Ancient India" steiner
[1905]

Though the Nazis banned Anthroposophy, this does not necessarily confer
sainthood. The Thule Society, another source of Nazi mythology, was also
banned at the same time. These groups were suppressed as rivals, rather than
opponents, of Nazism.....

"[W]hat the etheric body comprises derives from the maternal element, as
handed down from generation to generation, so that every man bears in his
own etheric body the legacy of the maternal element, and in his physical
body, that of the paternal element. Now, by reason of consanguinity, the
inheritance, perpetuating itself from etheric body to etheric body, was very
potent, and from it derived the old faculty of clairvoyance. The offspring
of endogamy inherited with the related blood the old capacity for wisdom in
the etheric body. But as blood became more and more mixed--as a result of
increasing intermarriage among tribes--the possibility of handing down the
ancient wisdom diminished; ...the mixing of different bloods obscured the
ancient wisdom more and more... We are, of course, still involved in this
process of deterioration taking place in the human blood because, in as far
as it has its origin in an ancient epoch, it will follow its lingering
course to the end of *Earth* evolution." (Steiner, 1909, GSJ p. 226)



"The German spirit...is prepared for a truth that reveals itself to be true
out of itself, not requiring external verification. The German spirit is
prepared for this and evidence of this may be found everywhere. The thoughts
of those who were truly working within the essence of the German spirit have
always taken the form of considering truth to be an inner gift of the human
soul." (Steiner, 1915, DIN p. 104)

"What has to come about for the civilization and culture of the future will
only come about if the German folk spirit finds souls that transplant the
Christ impulse into their astral body and ego the way it can indeed be
implanted there in a state of full conscious awareness. It has to come about
through harmony being established, by uniting with that which is consciously
achieved in Central Europe--more and more consciously.
"This will need not just one or two centuries, but a very long time. The
time needed...I would say counting from the year 1400. Adding two thousand
years to 1400 we get the approximate time when something will emerge in the
evolution of the earth that has had its seeds in the German life of the
spirit...That is the intention of the cosmic intelligence...For the moment
the East is very far indeed from achieving this. The very best of them still
fall far short. Short sightedly, they still refuse to accept what Central
European culture in particular is able to give." (Steiner, 1915, DIN p. 62)

"[The purpose of the Opium War] is not to help certain people make millions
and grow rich but to prevent certain souls who would have come from the
spiritual world round about now, to strengthen the cultural forces of
Europe, from incarnating yet, and instead to surreptitiously fill European
bodies with Chinese souls...In a great many European people a disharmony
between soul and body has been brought about in the way I have just
described...Seen in this way, that Opium War meant the switching of a soul
element from a part of the earth to which it belonged--and where it might
have been of use, because it would have fitted--to another part of the earth
where it could become a tool for forces whose designs are by no means
necessarily beneficial for mankind." (Steiner, 1916, KU1 p. 270)

"[T]he ancient Greeks dreamed of a uniform, perfect, beautiful type of human
being that should have developed. This development did not occur because
Lucifer and Ahriman preserved older racial forms that had developed, so that
there was a coexistence of races rather than a succession." (Steiner, 1916,
UH p. 76)

"[T]he representative people for the development of the consciousness soul,
hence for what matters particularly in our age, is the Anglo-Saxon nation.
The Anglo-Saxon people are those who through their whole organization are
predisposed to develop the consciousness soul to a special degree. The
prominent position occupied by the Anglo-Saxon nation in our time is indeed
due to the fact that this nation is especially suited for the development of
the consciousness soul." (Steiner, 1921, MTA p. 195)

"No doubt about it, the soul becomes corrupted through using the French
language...It is also possible at the present time that the French will even
ruin their own blood, the very element which has kept their language going
as a corpse. That is a terrible thing the French people are doing to other
people, the frightful cultural brutality of transplanting black people to
Europe. It affects France itself worst of all. This has an incredibly strong
effect on the blood, the race. This will substantially add to French
decadence. The French nation will be weakened as a race." (Steiner, 1923,
CT-3 pp. 87-88)

"[W]e are not justified in thinking that human beings were originally like
the savages of today. The savages have developed into what they now
are--with their superstitions, their magical practices and their unclean
appearance--from states originally more perfect. The only superiority we
have over them is that, while starting from the same conditions, we did not
degenerate as they did. I might therefore say: The evolution of man has
taken two paths. It is not true that the savages of today represent the
original condition of mankind. Mankind, though to begin with it looked more
animal-like, was highly civilized. ... Just as the present savages have
fallen from the level of the human beings of primeval times, so the apes are
beings who have fallen still lower." (Steiner, 1924, EEM p. 126)

http://www.social-ecology.org/article.php?story=20031202113626595

"Jewry as such has long since outlived its time; it has no more
justification within the modern life of peoples, and the fact that it
continues to exist is a mistake of world history whose consequences are
unavoidable. We do not mean the forms of the Jewish religion alone, but
above all the spirit of Jewry, the Jewish way of thinking." (steiner,
Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Literatur, GA 32, p. 152

Steiner then insists that racially stratified hierarchy “is simply a
universal law” and indeed a product of inescapable destiny: “The forces
which determine man’s racial character follow this cosmic pattern. The
American Indians died out, not because of European persecutions, but because
they were destined to succumb to those forces which hastened their
extinction.” (ibid. p. 76

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In a message dated 8/9/04 7:55:40 AM, leslie@... writes:

<< o doubt about it, the soul becomes corrupted through using the French

language...It is also possible at the present time that the French will even

ruin their own blood, the very element which has kept their language going

as a corpse. >>

Uh...
Yeah!
But now he's dead.

Speaking of which, it might be another thing they don't want to discuss, but
are there anthropmorphististicists who think they know if or where Steiner has
reincarnated himself? That would be fun to know.

-=-The American Indians died out, not because of European persecutions, but
because

they were destined to succumb to those forces which hastened their

extinction.-=-

Some died out of bullet wounds and smallpox.
New Mexico has quite a few not at all dead, living where they lived 400 years
ago.

Maybe in 1920 it looked like they were going to die out. But they were
savages, after all, lower than the original level of humans in primevil times. Not
cool and civilized like Germans.

I'm surprised he still has a following. The stuff that was quoted in
positive ways seemed just as crazy and baseless (more baseless, when it had to do
with "still evolving" after birth, and looking less like your mom if you quit
nursing at six months, and colors doing whateverall colors are supposed to do).
I'm surprised there's a single Waldorf school, let alone thousands of them.

Sandra