Races would never become decadent, never decline, if there weren't souls that are...unwilling to move up to a higher racial form. [4]. ‘Psychic’ Ex‐Student's Influence Shakes Waldorf School. Even if latter-day Anthroposophist interpretations of "The Occult Significance of Blood" were accurate, however, the conclusions many Anthroposophists draw from their preferred reading would remain false, due in part to a historically naive approach to the text. It’s a very horrible turn-of-the-century racism , but then I suppose it would be as that’s when it was written... We [participants at waldorf-critics] are not full of hatred at all. [14] Rudolf Steiner, quoted by an investigative commission of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands, which labeled the quotation “unobjectionable.”. ", "I believe this is enough, not only to refute the erroneous belief that Steiner disavowed or repudiated any of his 'earlier root race infections' by the dastardly racist doctrines of Helena P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, but more importantly to open a dialogue here about the racial issue today. This is the deeper meaning of Ahasver [the “wandering Jew”], who must always reappear in the same form because he rejected the hand of the greatest leader, Christ. sometimes verges on trying to explain them away. So a black in Africa is therefore a person who absorbs as much warmth and light as possible from space and assimilates it within himself. You've never met either of them, never talked to them, have no information about them except that one is white and one is black. Let's amplify these points. Martins notes the apologetic tendency of the vaunted ‘Dutch report’ on anthroposophical race doctrines and observes that its focus on legal issues is not especially helpful from a historical perspective (17). "The white race is the future, the race that is creating spirit." Whether we calculate in terms of a few dozen centuries or hundreds of centuries, however, the effect is much the same. Waldorf Graduate awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine. This is the unprejudicial truth, according to Steiner. The earth does not wait for him, the earth goes forward and h. e finally arrives at a point where he can no longer incorporate in a human body, for none are in existence. Now, ending the thought experiment, ask yourself whether Steiner's views on race are helpful in the real world. 203-207. [15] Rudolf Steiner, THE BEING OF MAN AND HIS FUTURE EVOLUTION (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1981), pp. There are people who want to stick to the familiar, who want nothing to do with progress; they refuse to listen to those who lead the way beyond the race to newer and newer forms of humanity." In ancient Atlantis, for instance, there were peoples who dropped out of the earth population so to speak, and they became Red Indians ... At the other extreme were those people who said: Oh, the ego is of no significance. In sum, Steiner taught that different races have different form of blood, and this is reflected in the differences between their racial or folk souls. — Rudolf Steiner, NATURE SPIRITS (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1995), pp. Individual humans, Steiner says, differ from individuals animals or other subhuman beings. Presumably Steiner didn't mean to be a racist. We should also note that Steiner's conception of freedom was constrained. The Waldorf School of Philadelphia is one of more than 1,090 Waldorf schools around the world, according to the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America. But evil humans move in the opposite direction. [3]. Human beings who degenerate may become subordinate nature spirits. 49-50. Everything else living in these regions is based on migration. This is the deeper meaning of Ahasver [the 'wandering Jew'], who must always reappear in the same form because he rejected the hand of the greatest leader, Christ. Why have they deserved this? And this is able to assimilate all the light and warmth that are inside a person. Referring to Steiner's racial doctrines, Daisy said: 'there is a fraction of his work that could be construed as promoting the idea of a kind of hierarchical evolution through the races.' Yellow people, in whom the "middle brain" ("Mittelhirn") predominates. (Steiner taught that, like blacks, Jews also cut themselves off from true spirituality. Within the context of Steiner's teachings, it is perfectly plausible to assert that novels written by blacks could have injurious effects (emotional, spiritual, and even biological) on whites and their offspring. In Steiner's interpretation of Norse myths, t. he occult significance of blood and race is the responsibility of the high god/archangel Lodur: “Archangels are to be found amongst the companions of Odin: Hönir who gave the power of thought and Lodur who gave that which is intimately connected with race, namely pigmentation and the character of the blood.”, — Rudolf Steiner, THE MISSION OF THE FOLK SOULS. The French are a "race" in that they are a subdivision of the white race. It is a central strand in his teachings, and it runs throughout dozens of his published texts and lectures. ◊ "One can only understand history and all of social life, including today's social life, if one pays attention to people's racial characteristics. Still, even if s/he is morally wobbly just now, s/he is currently superior to any black person in an important sense: S/he occupies a higher level; s/he is a member of a higher race. and they use the intermediate portion of the brain. Everything makes sense, everything becomes clear and explicable. Normal, highly evolved souls will continue evolving higher and higher. Some races, to put the matter baldly, are better than others; some are higher than others. In the real world, in other words, Steiner's views are invidious, discriminatory, and prejudicial — they are racist. It is a denial of racial equality. Fears of new 'strict' teacher training hitting supply, Teachers 'sickened' as DfE delays cash for poor pupils, I haven't done this much planning since I was an NQT, 3 key tips for teaching practical subjects online, School reopenings ‘will not be after half-term’, A day of live lessons? All materialistically thinking souls work on the production of evil race-formations ... Just as older conditions which have degenerated to the ape species seem grotesque to us today. Here are some of Steiner’s other statements about human races. Senses and brains are linked to whites, metabolism to blacks. The single greatest problem with Waldorf schools is that they tend to indoctrinate students in a soft form of Anthroposophy [14]. According to Steiner, the differences between races are so profound, they will lead to a racial Armageddon. In progressing to higher and higher evolutionary forms, a human soul should incarnate in progressively higher races, starting at black and rising to white. A black person is less evolved than a white: S/he may be a good person who will evolve higher, or she may be a bad person who is descending from higher racial forms. Our souls march from one level to the next, which is to say from one race to the next, and we come to know the meaning of humanity when we examine these races." Some of the more insightful comments in the BBC report, in my view, came from [new Waldorf teacher] Daisy Powell ... One of her prominent remarks, however, is significantly mistaken. Staudenmaier also identifies three distinct phases in Steiner's view of Jews and Judaism: an anti-Semitic period in the 1880s-1890s, a brief philo-Semitic period late in the 1890s and early 1900s, then another anti-Semitic phase from about 1902 onward. [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waldorf-critics/message/21678]. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/waldorf-critics/message/10511. But those are the peoples who denied their ego to such an extent that they went black, because the external forces coming from the sun to the earth made them so. (The other races fall between the white and black poles.) This is utterly different from accepting all races as equally worthy of respect and honor. 207-209. And yet, at another level, the error is built into Steiner's doctrines. Thus, I am almost certainly good. According to Steiner, it is not true that everyone passes through all levels. It goes through his spinal cord. 12. Of course, not all Waldorf schools in existence today are run by dyed-in-the-wool, true-believing Anthroposophists. He taught that numerous people will fall out of evolution long before the good humans move to their reward. "We are within the great Root Race of humanity that has peopled the earth since the land on which we now live rose up out of the inundations of the ocean. branched off then, staying behind as protozoa. It is both racist and crazily occultist. And because he actually has the sun, light, and warmth on his body surface, in his skin, his whole metabolism operates as if he were being cooked inside by the sun. And only the white person has a straight face. As a result, other souls that normally should have incarnated in China have been shunted to Europe instead. Anthroposophists argue strenuously that their belief system is not racist. In this way we can comprehend how to justify the principle, the core principle of universal brotherhood without regard to race, color, status, and so forth. We are left with a situation in which some races are higher than others, Steiner said — some races approach the ideal human type, while others diverge far from it. This is why the negro is black.”, ◊ “[T]he completely passive soul of the negro is in completely abandoned to the environment, to the exterior physique…”, ◊ “[T]hey are the ones who so denied their ‘I’ that it turned them black, because the exterior forces that come from the sun to the earth simply turned them black.”, ◊ “The African location corresponds to those forces of the Earth which imprint on people the features of childhood…”. All humans are basically alike, since we incarnate in the various races — we all incarnate in the lower races and, eventually, we may later incarnate in the higher racial forms. The concerns are contained in documents released following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the British Humanist Association (BHA). ...For those [of Steiner’s followers] who believe they are developing clairvoyant faculties in pursuit of Anthroposophy’s "Higher Worlds", Steiner’s racist doctrines, existing within an anthroposophical structure of reincarnation and karma, can be seen as essentially benevolent and redemptive. — Ibid., p. 13. For Anthroposophy as for Theosophy, evolution is the link between the human and the divine, it is a process supervised by higher powers and a vehicle for the soul’s elevation and purification. Moreover, a footnote to the foregoing quotation suggests that Steiner forecast racial divisions continuing not for thousands but for millions of years to come. Yet Steiner's work embraces numerous racist stereotypes and slanders. This vision represents a denial of. "Each member of a totality is determined, as regards its characteristics and functions, by the whole totality. — Rudolf Steiner, COSMIC MEMORY: Prehistory of Earth and Man (SteinerBooks, 1987), pp. If, during sixteen incarnations, you repeatedly choose the path of evil and falsehood, you will be unable to incarnate again. 52-53. "The American Indians died out, not because of European persecutions, but because they were destined to succumb to those forces which hastened their extinction." Still, even if s/he is morally wobbly just now, s/he is currently superior to any black person in an important sense: S/he occupies a higher level; s/he is a member of a higher race. My husband is black, he lives with racism daily, London taxis don't stop for him that often (maybe a third of the time). Would Steiner-free Waldorf schools provide a good education? These became stunted men, whose descendants still inhabit certain parts of the earth today as so-called savage tribes. A soul may be incarnated in a race that is declining; but if that soul does not make itself evil, it will not be reincarnated in a race that is falling back, but in one that is on the up-grade [sic]. I can attest that racism cropped up in some Waldorf classrooms nearly twenty after the war [25], and others have reported similar problems at Waldorf schools much more recently. To walk through the text of a racist lecture by Steiner, To examine the "Forbidden Lecture" — the German text. They appear in a later epoch as subordinate nature-spirits." The souls shunted to Europe are better than those that incarnate now in China, but normally these souls should not have come to Europe until they evolved to the European level. "If we had become what Lucifer and Ahriman intended and had been thrown upon our own resources, we should have been chased about the world by animal desires for what satisfied one organ or another....", There is a connection. Everything else living in these regions is based on migration. If it moves to the East, it becomes brown, attaches itself too much to the cosmos, and becomes extinct. See, e.g., Toos Jeurissen, “Waldorf Salad with Aryan Mayonnaise? Specifically, Steiner said that archangels, “bring the life of the individual and the life of broader groups of humanity — that is, peoples, races, and so on — into harmonious order ... For anyone who can penetrate spiritual knowledge, folk-souls and race-souls are quite different from what is generally understood by these terms today, especially by the abstract, modern scientist ... [A]bstract thinkers merely conceive of the folk-spirit or folk-soul as the abstract sum total of so many people. "We here in Europe call ourselves the white race. Racial difference is not merely a matter of skin pigmentation; it is a deep, spiritual matter, it reflects deeply different spiritual states overseen by different gods. — Rudolf Steiner, ibid., p. 244. That is where his instinctual life comes from. Thus, forms that should have disappeared remained. His recent Ph.D. in modern history, written at Cornell, concerns Anthroposophy in Germany and Italy from 1900 to 1945. Steiner's racism runs about as deep as it possibly could: It extends to differences between gods. Let us suppose he reaches what is to be reached in sixteen incarnations; he takes the sixteen false paths. “A recurring theme in the material provided is that bullying is not tackled within Steiner schools,” the document says. But I have left out one component in Steiner's racial schema. And world history will consist of the events that will lead to these battles between white and colored mankind until the great fight between white and colored mankind has been brought about. All humans are basically alike, since we incarnate in the various races — we all incarnate in the lower races and, eventually, we may later incarnate in the higher racial forms. (The "Negro race" is childish; its proper place on Earth contains a center of cosmic influences appropriate to childhood. The future of American civilization. And this means that the otherworldly miasma within Waldorf walls will retain its Anthroposophical hues. ...We can’t afford to be ignorant or to accept Steiner schools on their own terms. This kind of racist thinking spreads more readily precisely because it is not tied to consciously sinister intentions. If things go as they should, the higher races should become more and more populated as the lower races gradually wither away. Rudolf Steiner, THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR AS BREATHING PROCESS OF THE EARTH (Anthroposophic Press, 1984), p. 68. “On the Moon it would have occurred to you even less to deny this group-soul, for at that time it had a still more real existence. Looking back, he has written: The following is excerpted from the archive. Here, Steiner voices two interconnected, standard anti-Semitic slanders: Jews are highly materialist, and they are incapable of understanding spiritual truths. “At the least they should look at not funding further schools, and funding for the existing schools should be examined.”. Perhaps the most instructive instances are Steiner’s various statements about black people. Our daughter has suffered racism for the first time at a school. "The Occult Significance of Blood" posits an "evolutionary trade-off," in the words of a latter-day Anthroposophist, between endogamy and exogamy, and indeed the basic conception of such polarities and trade-offs runs throughout the text. To pick up the thread earlier in our evolution, start at “Prehistory 101”.]. They can assemble things, but as for inventions themselves, that is, that which arises from experience with the external world, the Asians cannot do this.” After offering what he takes to be a humorous anecdote about Asian technological ignorance, Steiner summarizes: “This sort of independent thinking which Europeans develop in dealing with their surroundings, the Asians do not have this. But nevertheless, there’s a dominant and explicable theme, owing much to Steiner’s occult interpretation of German nationalism. The white race is the race of the future, the spiritually creative race.”. The white population of America. — Rudolf Steiner, "The Christ-Impulse as Bearer of the Union of the Spiritual and the Bodily", typescript "For Members of the Anthroposophical Society", translated by M. Cotterell; the original is in Rudolf Steiner, DIE GEISTIGEN HINTERGRÜNDE DES ERSTEN WELTKRIEGES (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1994), GA 174b, pp. Therefore this mission has been fulfilled. ?” www.waldorfcritics.org/active/articles/waldorf_salad.html, According to Peter Staudenmaier, some scattered racist remarks can be found in Steiner's work before 1900, which is when Steiner became interested in Theosophy. The members of the good races will have risen high, beyond race, while you and the other incorrigibles lose your last vestiges of humanity. Steiner himself had racist views – he espoused a hierarchy of races from “black to Aryan” – and at some UK schools there have been complaints about racism. The documents outline a number of alarming claims, ranging from a teacher throwing a rounders bat at a pupil to staff using "racial epithets" with a mixed-race child. People evolve to higher racial forms because they are good, Steiner said. This makes the people dreamy, and the etheric body penetrates very deeply into the physical body. He likewise claimed that he could divine much of the occult lore of the nine ranks of gods who control the operations of the cosmos [6]. Then blacks will not catch up with whites in future incarnations — there will be no future incarnations. But then we overhear him affirming the stereotype that blacks are primitive, driven by uncontrollable sexual urges; and we hear him endorsing the stereotype that Jews are purely materialistic; and we listen aghast as he asserts that skin color reflects deep inner qualities. Look, they say, everybody passes through all the racial levels. Beings that stay behind at such stages appear in a later epoch with approximately the character of the earlier age. A few developed there in the requisite manner, and did not remain in Atlantean bodies. The omitted chapter, about twenty pages long, when translated would contain these two passages: > “This discussion that I have just described to you took place before The Great War of 1914 to 1918, you see. 13.). If Orientals move from their proper place. Each of us passes through the different racial stages, and the passage signifies a progressive development for the individual soul. But we can contemplate it, at least as a thought experiment.). [See, e.g., "America".]. — Rudolf Steiner, THE PHILOSOPHY OF FREEDOM (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1964), pp. In fact, Steiner imputed great powers to all forms of art, including all forms of literature. But until that happened, the white race would be the leading race. [9] German Aryans occupy a lofty place: They are enabled by their mythology and their attainments to understand human evolution particularly well [10], and their mission now is to comprehend the world from many angles. To put it in simple terms: What Steiner says in this text is that the colonizers need to determine what evolutionary level particular colonized peoples occupy and what their evolutionary trajectory is (progressing or regressing), in order to know how to civilize them, and that when colonizers interbreed with some "savage" peoples, this will cause the colonized peoples to die out, because their blood can't handle it. So a black in Africa is therefore a person who absorbs as much warmth and light as possible from space and assimilates it within himself. 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Look at the races that have survived from earlier eras: they only exist because some souls could not climb higher." (Note that Steiner, here again, speaks explicitly of "higher races. Only Steiner teachers and Anthroposophists are not. These blacks in Africa have the peculiar characteristic that they absorb all light and all warmth from space. He then asserts without qualification: “Very few inventions have been made in Asia. In April, 2009, I had occasion to write a brief summary of Steiner’s racial views. We’re there to help and support the children. I and all of us will go on blogs, etc., until the schools are transparent. the proper descendants of the residents of, and branched off the human evolutionary line. Thus, just as blacks brought to Europe are damaging to Europe, so these Oriental souls arriving in European bodies are damaging to Europe, Steiner indicated. The last stragglers on the way to the east, the Mongols, still retain something of the culture of the Atlanteans. Hence, s/he trails behind all good, mature whites walking the Earth today. 37-38. the development or evolution of life on Earth. If you hate someone because of race, you are a racist. (The French are damaging themselves and they are damaging "black people" as well, according to Steiner. "The evil race, with its savage impulses, will dwell in animal form in the abyss." Indeed, Steiner sometimes spoke of Native Americans as if they have already become extinct. ), Steiner taught that there are major races and minor races (subdivisions of major races). For Steiner's followers, this would be a catastrophe. The implication of Steiner's vision is that humanity will overcome racism only when races themselves are eliminated. In particular, Jews love wealth and luxury, and they are guilty of rejecting Christ, Steiner and others have taught. Steiner taught that thinking is the special field of endeavor for Aryans. The omitted chapter if translated would be titled “Color and the Races of Mankind” and is about sixteen pages long. The black person standing before you is a member of a low race, which means s/he is evil or at least spiritually retarded. Hence, Steiner's teachings are free of prejudice: Steiner was simply pointing out an objective fact, which is that all good humans move upward, from membership in low races to membership in high races. He actually had a pleasing, attractive face.”. humans were the first, central life form on Earth. He actually had a pleasing, attractive face.”, “A humanity that thinks materialistically will produce frightful beings in the future ... We have two streams today, a great [i.e., huge] materialistic one which fills the earth, and the small spiritual stream which is restricted to but few human beings [chiefly, Steiner and his adherents] ... All materialistically thinking souls work on the production of evil race-formations ... Just as older conditions which have degenerated to the ape species seem grotesque to us today, so do materialistic races remain at the standpoint of evil, and will people the earth as evil races. They did not really say this, because they did not reflect in this manner. But not all bodies have been prepared, in the way yours have been, by a small number of colonists who long ago migrated from the West to the East. The Japanese will therefore follow all the European inventions, but they will never think up something on their own.”, > “Thus it is really very interesting: on the one hand there is the black race, which is the most earthly. , ÜBER GESUNDHEIT UND KRANKHEIT (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1994), GA 348, p. 189. But racism is not, at root, an emotion, it is an idea. attended a Waldorf school. He said bullying was inimical to the Steiner philosophy, which aimed to create communities where children could thrive. Then there are those who degenerated at too early a stage through the nervous system becoming hardened and not remaining soft long enough for it to become available as an instrument of higher thought; of these the Malays are the last relic. I feel they are not in the real world, they have lost all sense of reality and I honestly think most of them really don't believe the theory is racist as I think they look at my husband and daughter and think, "Don't worry you'll get there in time.". If we wish to form a true conception of this we must say that all the souls now living in bodies in civilized countries were formerly incarnated in Atlantean bodies. Are children raised in the Waldorf way likely to be prepared for real life in the real world? This is what I wrote (I have edited it slightly for use here; note that the message repeats various points made earlier on this page): Here is Steiner's basic defense, in Steiner's own words. But the result will have to be that [mankind’s next step upwards] cannot happen differently than as a violent fight between white mankind and colored mankind in the most varied areas. When Steiner said a folk-soul "is a reality," he meant such a being really exists. during the period when humanity lived on Atlantis. p. 93. The process will not be peaceful. This is such a stunning statement, I'm almost tempted to let it stand on its own, as if it needs no commentary. (All of us in the class were white.) The Oriental races, he said, are ancient, wise, but vitiated. Perhaps s/he is making moral errors in this life and therefore s/he will slip down a rung or two in the next life — s/he may incarnate in a lower race next time around. Whites, who have a well-developed "fore-brain" ("Vorderhirn"), Vom Leben des Menschen und der Erde; Über das Wesen des Christentums, by the dastardly racist doctrines of Helena P. Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society, but more importantly to open a dialogue here about the racial issue today. London WC1R 4HQ. Thus each person has the opportunity to [become stuck at one level] or instead to undergo the transformation into higher races, toward ever higher perfection. ANTHROPOSOPHY BASED STATEMENTS. [1]. A racist may make any number of wise, liberal, enlightened statements, but every once in a while s/he will say something that is clearly racist. From this, Steiner widens the discourse to encompass all humans who fail to evolve higher. 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