"It has been the particular task of Central Europe to free Theosophy from the special characteristics it has acquired in Western Europe. Our mission was to purify Theosophy by removing any trace of special interests from it. And the further you delve into these matters, the more clearly will you see that to a certain extent I personally was well placed to detach my contribution to Theosophy from any particular interest. If I may put it symbolically, I needed only to allow myself to be guided by an impulse which sprang directly from my present incarnation. Please don’t misunderstand what I am saying here. I am merely stating facts. The people who were the physical bearers of the blood from which I am descended all came from the German districts of Austria, but I myself could not be born there. I was born in a Slavonic region which was entirely alien to the whole character of the environment from which my forefathers came. So from the very start of my present incarnation, it was impressed upon me - again in a symbolic sense - that our task in Central Europe is that of freeing Theosophy of any kind of special interest, so that Theosophy might stand before us as a goddess, untouched by any human bias, and as relevant to people living in one place as to those living in another.
Rudolf Steiner began to sense an important future destiny for the Russian Folk Soul, and he would refer to it frequently. In Helsinki, Finland, where Steiner went to give lectures in 1912 and 1913, he spoke with urgency to the Russians about their mission, and the distinct possibility that it would have to come forth before the 6th Cultural Epoch. This happened with outbreak of World War I. For example, in this lecture from 1915, Steiner indicates that it is the imperative mission of Anthroposophy to prepare for the 6th Cultural Epoch. He further indicates herein about the Russian Folk Soul, and what can be seen even now that demonstrates a spiritual striving in support of the Consciousness Soul Age, and beyond.
Rudolf Steiner began to sense an important future destiny for the Russian Folk Soul, and he would refer to it frequently. In Helsinki, Finland, where Steiner went to give lectures in 1912 and 1913, he spoke with urgency to the Russians about their mission, and the distinct possibility that it would have to come forth before the 6th Cultural Epoch. This happened with outbreak of World War I. For example, in this lecture from 1915, Steiner indicates that it is the imperative mission of Anthroposophy to prepare for the 6th Cultural Epoch. He further indicates herein about the Russian Folk Soul, and what can be seen even now that demonstrates a spiritual striving in support of the Consciousness Soul Age, and beyond.
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