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Rudolf Steiner: From Theosophy to Anthroposophy (1902-1913)

John Paull
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The Theosophical Society, founded in New York in 1875, was, at the turn of the Twentieth Century, a global phenomenon with 100,000 members. New Age philosopher Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) was appointed as the first Secretary General of the German Section of the Theosophical Society on 19 October 1902. The Theosophical Society offered Rudolf Steiner a platform, a ready-made audience, infrastructure, and the insider experience of the world's leading New Age spiritual society. The success of the Theosophical Society demonstrated that there was a public appetite to hear about reincarnation, karma, maya, kamaloca, and other Eastern and alternative spiritual ideas. The Theosophical Society provided Rudolf Steiner with a capable, multilingual, and determined personal assistant, Marie von Sivers (1867-1948). For Rudolf Steiner, the Theosophical Society offered the ideal training ground for what would be, a decade later, his life's work, the Anthroposophical Society. Rudolf Steiner grew the membership of the German Section of the Theosophical Society from 377 in 1905 to 3,702 in 1913. He earned cash from ticketing of his lectures and his Mystery plays, and from book sales of his personal publishing house, 'Philosophisch-Theosophischer Verlag'. Another enterprise, the 'Johannes-Bau-Verein' (Johannes Building Association) was founded in 1911, independent of the Theosophical Society, to build a theatre in Munich to present Rudolf Steiner's plays. The building application was rejected by the Munich municipal authorities in 1912. The resistance to the proposed building in Munich provided an impetus for the move to build in Dornach, Switzerland. The Anthroposophical Society was founded on 28 December 1912 in Cologne, Germany. Most of the members of the German Section of the Theosophical Society followed Rudolf Steiner into the Anthroposophical Society. The Theosophical Society expelled Rudolf Steiner from the Society on 7 March 1913. The foundation stone for the Goetheanum (then still called the 'Johannesbau') was laid on 20 September 1913. The Theosophical Society had served as the ideal prototype and springboard for founding and growing the Anthroposophical Society.
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John Paull. Rudolf Steiner: From Theosophy to Anthroposophy (1902-1913). European Journal of Theology and Philosophy, 2022, 2 (5), pp.8-17. ⟨10.24018/ejtheology.2022.2.5.74⟩. ⟨hal-03788281⟩

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