How to overcome soul anguish - Rudolf Steiner

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"How You Can Overcome the Soul Anguish of the Present" is the text of a conference on anthroposophy, or spiritual science , held by Rudolf Steiner in Zurich on 10 October 1916 and originally not intended for publication.

The text is taken from a shorthand draft.

"What we seek as spiritual-scientific truth must not be dead knowledge, but rather living knowledge, knowledge that can truly enter into life, in all its fields and in the most important points.

It is natural that today spiritual science is accepted in a completely abstract way and that in this abstractness it can appear as a science far from reality, a science of little use to life. Especially people who have little knowledge about it can ask themselves this question: what is the use of knowing that man consists of so many constituent limbs, that humanity has developed through different eras of culture and will continue to develop? To men who believe they are well versed in practical life, according to the needs of our age, anthroposophy often appears completely sterile. And in a sterile way it is also cultivated by those who have begun to welcome it with love and understanding.

But spiritual science - in itself - is something extraordinarily alive, something that over time must become alive even in the most external practical activities." The author, Rudolf Steiner