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 fruit of that inner work to benefit the wider world. As a modern path of knowing, 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, in turn, 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.

The Anthoposophical Society in America is a non-sectarian, non-political association devoted to furthering Rudolf Steiner’s work. 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.
As one of 70 branches world-wide of the
General Anthroposophical Society founded by Rudolf Steiner in Dornach, Switzerland, 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.”