tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2464697076003910976..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The problem of Rudolf Steiner and the Anthroposophical SocietyBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88294508107658824892018-11-26T06:42:22.025+00:002018-11-26T06:42:22.025+00:00@Carter - If I agreed then there would not be a pr...@Carter - If I agreed then there would not be a problem! <br /><br />Barfield can *mostly* substitute for Steiner, but I didn't really 'get' Barfield until I had understood Philosophy of Freedom (GA 4); and for that I needed Truth and Knowledge (GA 3). <br /><br />I have often written about the lecture Work of the Angel in the Astral Body (1918) containing what needed to be done, and the remarkable prophecy of what would (and did) happen if it was not done (which it wasn't) - nobody else seems to have written about this. <br /><br />Yet, it is a core aspect of Steiner's core teaching that there is no need for any particular texts if/ when someone has the right motivation. And without that right motivation the texts are worthless - as I find the Anthroposophical Society to be... With the exception of their publication of texts; with a single exception I have come across (Terry Boardman), Anthroposophists are supporters of and insiders to all the materialism and inversions of Leftist modernity. <br /><br />So, in that sense Steiner is dispensible, everybody is dispensible, all scriptures and churches and teachers are dispensible - because we may know directly. <br /><br />And maybe that is the situation we are approaching, since there is so much disinformation, dishonesty and distortion that (on average, and with very high probability) any and all outside sources will mislead. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-13273457453041771102018-11-26T04:31:02.683+00:002018-11-26T04:31:02.683+00:00I personally question the usefulness of Steiner. ...I personally question the usefulness of Steiner. I don't doubt the value of the insights you've gleaned from wrestling with him, but it very much seems like those insights can be found more easily and more clearly expressed from thinkers besides Steiner.<br /><br />- Carter Craft TheDoctorofOdoIslandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06654695224557150961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-68733130052652499812018-11-25T20:07:28.517+00:002018-11-25T20:07:28.517+00:00I find myself wondering how much danger I'm in...I find myself wondering how much danger I'm in of being set up as such an idol in the end.<br /><br />Not <i>too</i> much, I suspect, at least not on a large scale.<br /><br />But the more pertinent question is whether any person with substantial knowledge of my writings (or life) should be in any sincere doubt as to any <i>goodness</i> in them being of myself rather than of Christ. I think it is difficult to always make sufficiently clear that 'goodness' isn't really my thing <i>at all</i>. At least, it is difficult to clarify within the bounds of polite discourse.Chiu ChunLinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03519192610708043962noreply@blogger.com