I thought I would share the following questions, which arose while reading the Introductory Lecture of the series The Anthroposophical Movement and the Anthroposophical Society (Steiner, 9/5/24). Find the lecture here.
1. Do I embody the conviction that the spiritual world is a concrete reality in my life? How?
2. How might the spiritual archetype of the Anthroposophical Movement be characterized?
3. Of what significance is it that I am / am not a member of the Anthroposophical Society? Of the First Class of the School for Spiritual Science?
4. How is the Anthroposophical Society functioning currently as an esoteric, yet also completely open society?
5. How does my dream consciousness influence my life? Can I discern spurious from meaningful symbols in my dream life? Can I discern any revelations of spirit from the time between death and birth showing up in my dream consciousness?
6. What do the tree-spirit, the mountain-spirit, the spirit of the rocks reveal to me?
7. How am I progressing towards exact knowledge of the spirit? Can I confront a tree, allowing it to become a void, leaving the space free before my gaze, and allow the spirit-being of the tree to meet me?
8. Can I penetrate with vision into the life of dreamless sleep, and discover therein the connections of karma?
9. Can I recognize the process through which in the consciousness of deep sleep there weaves and lives in me an actual and real nexus of forces which, after waking, lead me into connection with the working out of my destiny, my karma? How can I begin to perceive the activity of these forces?
10. Can a seeker who has not yet achieved continuity of consciousness into dreamless sleep claim true knowledge of karmic connections?
11. Can I understand how history develops through that which individual people carry over from earlier epochs, from prior lives? Can I give an example of how this works?
12. In what ways does my current life have meaning (make sense) only because of what I have experienced in previous lives? In what ways is my current life a reflection of the general condition of humanity at this time? In what ways does the future weave its way into my current life?
13. How do I interpret the significance that my karma has led me in this life to a connection with the Anthroposophical Society? How does this inform my life and my intentions?
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