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The healthy social
life is found
When in the mirror of each human soul
The whole community finds its reflection.
And when in the community
The virtue of each one is living.
- The Motto of Social
Ethic
Rudolf Steiner
The
Anthroposophical Society was founded by
Rudolf Steiner
in Switzerland in 1923. It
seeks to support individuals who are working on their own inner
development and who wish to bring the fruits of that inner work
to benefit the wider world. As a modern path of knowledge, its doors
are open to all who seek its approach and who wish to support its
activities. Today, anthroposophical activity is alive in communities
around the world.
During the course of
his life, Steiner collaborated with doctors, therapists, farmers,
business people, teachers, scientists, and artists. These collaborations
created Waldorf Schools, Biodynamic
Agriculture, new economic
and social models, the Camphill
movement, Anthroposophical
Medicine and thousands of other public and private initiatives
worldwide. Other collaborations focused on the arts, creating new
forms of expression in both the visual and performing arts (such
as eurythmy).
What is Anthroposophy?
Anthroposophy fosters a spiritual view of the human being and his
place in the cosmos, but it emphasizes knowing, not faith. It is
a path in which the human heart and hand, and especially our capacity
for thinking, are essential. Anthroposophy begins with the understanding
that we have the capacity to know the spirit in matter - that is,
we have the ability to develop organs of spiritual perception. It
leads, in Steiner's words, "from the spirit in the human
being to the spirit in the universe," because only if we
first come to experience the spirit in ourselves can we know the
cosmic spirit. By applying the wisdom gained through spiritual perception,
we consciously contribute to the positive evolution of humankind
and the universe. Humanity (anthropos) has the inherent wisdom (sophia)
to transform both itself and the world.
Rudolf Steiner shared
the results of his spiritual research in 40 books and in over 6,000
lectures now available in 300 volumes. He is increasingly recognized
as a seminal thinker of the 20th century and one of humanity's great
spiritual teachers.
The Anthroposophical
Society in America
The Anthroposophical Society in America is an association of people
seeking to nurture the life of the soul and to explore what it means
to be truly human, based on spiritual science arising out of the
work of Rudolf Steiner. The Society serves the public directly,
through the initiatives of its members, and through the activities
of the School for Spiritual Science.
The Society is a non-sectarian,
non-political organization open to everyone regardless of religion,
race, nationality, social standing, scientific or artistic conviction.
It supports individual members and groups including study groups,
regional
branches, the School for Spiritual Science in North America,
and the Rudolf Steiner
Library (a mail-order lending library available to the public).
The purpose of the Society is to deepen the spiritual life of members
and to acquaint the public with an understanding of anthroposophy.
As a national branch
of the General Anthroposophical
Society founded by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, Switzerland, in
1923, the Anthroposophical Society in America is an "association
of people who would foster the life of the soul, both in the individual
and in human society, on the basis of a true knowledge of the spiritual
world."
For information about
membership please call us at 734 662-9355 or e-mail us at
information@anthroposophy.org
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