Steiner Predicts
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This is one of three Web sites that I manage. All three deal with the Austrian mystic, Rudolf Steiner; the occult faith he concocted, Anthroposophy; and the mysticism-laden schools that are devoted to his teachings: Waldorf schools (sometimes called Steiner schools).
Fair warning: I consider most of Steiner’s teachings to be absurd and therefore laughable. I encourage belly guffaws at Steiner's expense. He was either a lunatic or a charlatan. In the former case, laughter would be cruel. But I'd like to suggest that we consider Steiner fully sane, although full of b.s. Well educated, articulate, possessing an impressive memory, he seems to have had his wits about him. So let's not worry about him as an individual. Let's put our focus, instead, on Steiner's statements. Many of these were—unintentionally—hilarious.
Preliminary notes:
• In my essays, I hop back and forth between past tense and present tense.
This is intentional.
Steiner is dead, but his doctrines live on in Waldorf schools.
Using only the past tense would diminish the continuing threat faced by
children in Waldorf schools. We must not fall into the comforting
delusion that Steiner’s harmful effects died with him.
• Here and elsewhere, I sometimes adopt a satirical tone.
Steiner's doctrines deserve to be hooted off the face of the Earth,
blown away by gales of derision and revulsion.
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Rudolf Steiner had a million knee-slappers. Here's one: "[W]hat does interest us is the fact that the moon today is like a fortress in the universe, in which there lives a population that fulfilled its human destiny over 15,000 years ago, after which it withdrew to the moon together with the spiritual guides of humanity ... This is only one of the 'cities' in the universe, one colony, one settlement among many ... As far as what concerns ourselves, as humanity on earth, the other pole, the opposite extreme to the moon is the population of Saturn." [1]
Have I caught your attention, yet? Rudolf Steiner made tons of detailed predictions about the future. His devotee, Richard Seddon, pulled together these clairvoyant predictions (as well as a thumbnail of humanity's past) in his book THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE EARTH As Foreseen by Rudolf Steiner. [2] I'd like to share this wisdom with you.
Let’s start with a little background. As we all know (joke), one of the most important events in mankind's history was the sinking of Atlantis. Yes, Steiner taught that Atlantis actually existed. He also talked a lot about human evolution. He didn't mean the sort of evolution science talks about; he meant a weird kind of racial and "spiritual" progress made by good humans. (Bad humans are something else, as we'll soon see.) He said that humanity made great evolutionary strides both before and after Atlantis went under. (Check it out: One of Steiner’s own books is ATLANTIS: The Fate of a Lost Land and Its Secret Knowledge.) Steiner also taught that long before Atlantis was destroyed, another lost land, Lemuria, endured a similar catastrophe. (See Steiner’s book ATLANTIS AND LEMURIA.)
But that’s all history. I promised you the future. So here it comes (I’ll skip over the boring 21st and 22nd Centuries). Richard Seddon writes that Steiner taught that "By the start of the twenty-third century, when Michael's Sun-rulership as Time Archangel ends (though he continues as Spirit of the Age for more than a millennium) great changes will obviously have taken place ... [H]human etheric bodies gradually loosen from the physical, and souls begin to extricate themselves ....” [3]
I know, I know. Not as exciting as you expected? Well, here’s some more background. Michael is a really good guy: In fact, he is an Archangel. (See Steiner’s book THE ARCHANGEL MICHAEL: His Mission and Ours.) Michael's tour as Sun ruler will end by the 23rd Century. Our “etheric” bodies are the lowliest of the three nonphysical bodies that real human beings eventually incarnate. I’m not making this up. You can find references to the etheric body in many of Steiner’s books. Other creatures besides humans have etheric bodies. Here’s a Steiner quote that is a little surprising: “From spiritual science [i.e., Steiner's new religion, Anthroposophy] you know that the plant [i.e., any living vegetable] owes its existence to the fact that, besides its physical body, it has an etheric body.” [4]
(Steiner and Seddon are hard to read. If you immediately grasp that reading them is pointless, Great! My mission is complete.)
If you're still with me, let’s try to pick up the pace. Steiner was big on karma and reincarnation. Seddon backs up his guru by discussing "our Karmic obligations". [5] He meant that Steiner meant that we get what we deserve: If we messed up in former lives, we come back to Earth as lowly sorts of humans (or maybe even as subhumans). People who are members of "low" races (sorry: this is Steiner's dogma, not mine) are that way because they were really, really bad previously. (For more about Steiner's racist views, see my essay, "Race," at http://homepage.mac.com/nonlevitating/nine.html.)
Steiner also taught that the only reason different races exist is that demons interfered with human evolution. The chief culprits are Lucifer and Ahriman (a Persian devil, promoted by Steiner to the rank of master of falsehood):
“While there should have been basically only one form of human being ... Lucifer and Ahriman preserved [earlier human types] ... [F]orms that should have disappeared remained ... That is how it came about that physically different races inhabited the earth and are still there in our time although evolution should really have proceeded [unimpeded].” [6]
I apologize for Steiner's horrid views. I also apologize that we haven’t gotten very far into our future, yet. We’ll get there.
I mentioned Lemuria. Human beings lived in Lemuria, but our bodies were somewhat different then. (Bear in mind that in the following sentences Steiner was talking about human beings. Not our evolutionary forebears such as apes, lizards, fish, amoebas ... Us. Human beings.) "The human being was at that time only jelly-like in external form. Humans had an amphibian-like form.” [7]
Don’t look at me. That’s what he said.
(Soon we'll see how our bodies also are different on the Moon and so forth.)
ENDNOTES
[1] Rudolf Steiner, RUDOLF STEINER SPEAKS TO THE BRITISH (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1998). p.93.
At this Web site, I aim well-deserved mockery at Rudolf Steiner. But all of my references to his works are accurate. I am serious about the malignancy of Steiner's doctrines, and I take my obligations as a critic seriously. If you have any doubts, I invite you to look up each citation. You'll find them accurate. Why would I change Steiner's words? They constitute the most powerful argument against him.
My references to Richard Seddon's work are also accurate.
[2] Richard Seddon, THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE EARTH As Foreseen by Rudolf Steiner (The Temple Lodge, 2002).
[3] Ibid., p. 26.
[4] Rudolf Steiner, COLOUR (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1996), p. 19.
[5] THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY AND THE EARTH, p. 26.
[6] Rudolf Steiner, THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN: The Evolution of Individuality, Lectures from 1909-1916 (Anthroposophic Press, 1990), p. 75.
[7] Rudolf Steiner, FACULTY MEETINGS WITH RUDOLF STEINER (Anthroposophic Press, 1998), p. 26.
