What is the most amazing thing about Rudolf Steiner?
To me, it is simply the fact that he gave lectures, or for that matter, had any contact with the public whatsoever.
Think about it...if the average person knew as much as Rudolf Steiner purported to know (and which, really, I think he probably did) they would become so irritated at the complete ignorance and stupidity of everyone else in the world that they would likely withdraw completely from social contact.
(Except maybe for periodic accusatory speeches from a rooftop, or in the modern era - the occasional ranting blog)
Steiner once said that there is a greater difference between an initiate and the average human being than there is between a human being and a snail.
He wasn't saying this to put on airs, he was just stating facts.
How would most of us treat the rest of humanity if we knew that they were snails (even snails with potential) compared to us?
We are often so shocked by Steiner's monstrous intellectual capacity that we often forget the most amazing part of him - his moral qualities.
More specifically his compassion for humanity.
Judge Animals or....
On a side note, Jay:
Recently I wanted to create a Bumper Sticker that said
"Judge Animals"
We don't do that. I mean, yes, in the heat of the moment we blame the dog for his mess or yell at the cat, but intellectually and scientifcally we don't blame animals.
What's that you say? A certain Spider eats her entire family if the temperature drops below 22 degrees. Fascinating, amazing...hmmmm....I wonder what triggers that exact behavior and how it evolved within a natural context.
If a woman ate her family we wouldn't judge her if she had been drugged. We wouldn't judge her if she was insane. We wouldn't judge her if she was somehow forced. But if she "chose" to do it, boy do we like to let her have it. If our President was a spider, his activity would be almost as cool as when the actual spider eats her family. But, nope, he's a human making greedy choices (I'm not thinking of an actual President. They all get blamed) and he should have known better. My "research" these days is about diving into the web of beliefs that prop up the way we use the concept of "choice". It is interesting to notice the implicit rules that goven when we can and can't say that a "choice" is happening, REGARDLESS of our well-thought-out cosmologies! Long time students of The Philosopy of Freedom follow the same rules about the word "choice" as avowed atheists.
Judge Animals
or Don't Judge People
you can't have both....
I like that train of thought...Choo Chooo
Jeff
P.S. I didn't write this to provoke the correct responses about what differentiates people from animals and why animals can't be bad but we can...II've read Theosophy too many times!!!)Been there, done that...I just think that if we actually took the big step and began judging animals for their greed and cruelty, our collective evolution would jump forward at an incredible rate!
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