Monthly Archives: August 2016

The effect of the spiritual knowledge on the character

The effect upon character is one of the most important results that can accrue from spiritual knowledge. Abstract intellectual knowledge is like an artificial root; it has been constructed by the intellect — no plant can grow from it. This is true of all the scientific knowledge that men respect and revere to-day, useful though […]

Moral Influences of Light and Immoral Influences of Electricity

CONCERNING ELECTRICITY Extract from a Lecture by Dr. Rudolf Steiner, Dornach, January 28, 1923 GA 220 From stenographic notes unrevised by the lecturer. The cultural ingredient that now permeates our whole external civilization began to rise to the surface at the turn of the 18th and 19th century. Think of the immense contrast between the […]