Lionizing is not a part of Anthroposophy

Submitted by Society Minder on Tue, 07/21/2009 - 3:44pm.


Lionizing

The benefits that would accrue to an esoteric movement from a really rigorous exclusion of sympathetic and antipathetic attitudes are beyond estimating. This would eliminate the harm done by lionizing, which is sympathy-gone-overboard.

To lionize means to form a Luciferic claque around supposedly special personalities. This not only tends to cut off those so venerated from non-claque members, thus lessening their fruitfulness: it swells heads much better left life-sized while at the same time reducing the claque's members to non-entities.

Furthermore, it works strongly counter to the greatly-needed insight that all human beings have unique personalities which deserve and require developing. To fail to develop them leads to waste more wanton than any human enterprise can allow itself and still entertain the hope of prospering.

Lionizing is thus in all three aspects illness -- illness moving toward a fatal outcome in that it gradually drains away the strength of the organism, while certain of its parts suffer from gigantism. Is this not cancer of the body social?
Refections on Community Building by Marjorie Spock

Community of Spirit
We are firmly grounded in our understanding of things of the spirit only when we do not rest content with abstract spiritual concepts and a capacity to express them theoretically, but instead grow into a sure belief that higher beings are present with us in a community of spirit when we engage in spiritual study.
Awakening to Community by Rudolf Steiner

Harmony of Intentions
It is only because human individuals are one in spirit that they can live out their lives side by side. The free human being lives in confidence that he and any other free human beings belong to one spiritual world, and that their intentions will harmonize. The free human being does not demand agreement from his fellows, but expects to find it because it is inherent in human nature. I am not here referring to the necessity for this or that external institution, but to the disposition, the attitude of soul, through which the human being, aware of himself among his fellows, most clearly expresses the ideal of human dignity.
9-10 Philosophy of Freedom by Rudolf Steiner

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