Lanterna Rally

Author: Rudolf Steiner

Publisher: Book Jungle

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781594621628

This booklet contains a lecture given by me, after a series of objections had been brought forward in a lecture from another quarter against the views summed up under the name "Anthroposophy" or" Spiritual Science." I came to know of these objections through the circumstance that the lecturer himself had them printed in a newspaper. When the occasion of the observations contained in this booklet is borne in mind, it might seem as if their special publication were unjustified. With regard to this it may be said that even though the objections in question were, to begin with, only the subject of a single lecture, they are the ones with which it is intended from many quarters and in divers repetitions to refute the spiritual science (Anthroposophy) referred to in this booklet. They are to a certain extent typical" refutations." They are typical, not only because of what is alleged, but because of the manner in which an attitude is taken towards that to which objections are raised. This manner is characteristic. It is often the case that people do not fix their attention upon what spiritual science says and direct theii attack against this but they fabricate an idea of what they think it says, and then attacls this idea. A curious position results. The one attacked may quite agree with his opponent in his judgment of all that is attacked, and yet he is obliged to find that he is condemned, together with the distorted idea formed of him. The following example is particularly characteristic for this form of attack. A building is being erected for the purposes of Anthropo-sophy (Spiritual Science). This is to be a" College of Spiritual Science."Rudolf Steiner.