Letters to the Editor
RE:Apologia
For what it's worth, I understand that after eighty years of a man's
death their work happens to become humanity's legacy. It's coherent
for Steiner to ask esoteric knowledge to be hidden from the public in
his times but in our times it's coherent to understand that no book,
no matter how esoteric, can be understood by the rational mind for
the esoteric is not a rational experience. In his times, publishing
or not publishing texts was necessary for the life of anthroposophy
and his own life to be protected but today it is precisely publishing
the texts that will allow seekers to not have to pay the dues to
those wanting to appropriate divine, esoteric knowledge for their own
particular power positions in yet another cult wanting to make money
with their founders work, without sharing its life and knowledge
openly. Thank you Frank Thomas Smith for publishing these works, it
would be interesting to read them one day, if you could send me the
link.
Clara Gutiérrez
Colombia
Rudolf
Steiner expressed to Marie Steiner that if the society became
sectarian, or the Class Lessons were a source of personal power, that
the Lessons would have to be made public. I recently was dismayed as
my local class reader expressed both traits. The individual wondered
if a recently departed soul could participate in the earthly reading
of the Class Lessons without a blue card! I was surprised at the
conception that a spiritual being needed a ticket for entry. I wished
to give my card to this poor soul at the moment I heard this. My
aunt, Baptist fundamentalist, would say the same about the gates of
heaven. Only Baptists had the ticket to the gates of heaven. I never
understood such thinking, but I know now why the Lessons are public.
Daniel
Perez
Frank,
Yes thank you, I agree with everything you said. I assume you
know too that the SteinerBooks published just recently ‘The
First Class, Lessons and Mantras, The Michaelic School Meditative
Path in Nineteen Lesson for $45; T.H.Meyer editor for sale at
Mayflower Bookshop of course. So it now is out. I may prefer your
translation, but still researching it. Blessings on your good
works.
Thanks again,
Robert Thibodeau