"Clairvoyance, which
is the basis of the modern science of initiation, has always
existed." - Knowledge and Initiation
- Cognition of the Christ Through Anthroposophy; Cognition of
the Christ Through Anthroposophy (London, 15th April, 1922, GA
211)
"I soon recognized that
the achievements which modern science does grant Goethe are the
inessential ones, whereas precisely what is significant is overlooked.
The individual discoveries would really have been made even without
Goethe's-research; but science will be deprived of his marvelous
conception of nature as long as it does not draw this directly
from him. This realization gave the direction that had to be
taken by the introductions to my edition of Goethe's scientific
works. They had to show that every single view expressed by Goethe
is to be traced back to the totality of his genius." - The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe's World
Conception, Foreword to the First Edition (GA 002)
"These questions become
especially evident in connection with modern science, yet do
not exclusively concern those who occupy themselves seriously
with science, but they affect everyone who takes an all-round
interest in modern life." - Human
Life in the Light of Spiritual Science (Liestal, October 16,
1916, GA 35)
"As this evolutionary
epoch has led of necessity to the discoveries of modern science
it will lead of necessity to Spiritual Science as well." - ibid
"The Christian mysticism
of Eckhardt, Tauler, and others, is a result of the permeation
of feeling and sensation with Christianity. The science of the
sense world and its results in life are the consequences of the
other side of the soul's capacities. We owe the progress in the
field of outer material culture entirely to this separation of
capacities. Because the human faculties that have the brain as
their instrument turned one-sidedly to physical life, they were
able to attain to the increase in power that made possible modern
science and technology." - An Outline
of Occult Science, IV THE EVOLUTION OF THE COSMOS AND MAN
"But we have also to
investigate this interaction between the human and extra-human
world with all the resources of modern science." - Spiritual Science and Medicine, Lecture V (Dornach,
GA 312)
"We have already availed
ourselves of all the achievements of modern science and taken
them into account." - Spiritual Science
and Medicine, Lecture XX (Lecture: (Dornach, 9th April, 1920,
GA 312)
"A true understanding
of modern science, not the dilettante understanding to be found
even in University Professors, but understanding that is free
from abstract theorising and materialistic conjectures, standing
firmly upon the basis of facts and not going beyond them, can
find from science itself the proofs of the spiritual truths of
Rosicrucianism." - Theosophy of the
Rosicrucian, I The New Form of Wisdom (Berlin, 22nd May, 1907,
GA 99)