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Steiner taught that thinking is the special field of endeavor for Aryans. In at least some cases, it surely is. Indeed, luring kids toward Anthroposophy is the underlying raison d'être of the Waldorf movement [15]. Racism. It hinges on the doctrine or reincarnation: “As all persons in their different incarnations pass through the various races, therefore, although it may be argued that the European has the advantage over the black and the yellow races, we should not be prejudiced thereby." This makes the people dreamy, and the etheric body penetrates very deeply into the physical body. Steiner's racism runs about as deep as it possibly could: It extends to differences between gods. As a foster parent for many years and a mentor for Kids’ Company, the mother concerned is used to dealing with challenging situations but the school’s response to this incident (amongst others) shocked her. Their entire worldview, the teachings that give their lives meaning, could crumble to dust. [To glimpse the future of good humans, see “Sixth Epoch” and the pages that follow it. But in fact these teachers were opening a window for us onto the racial views propounded by the founder of Waldorf education, Rudolf Steiner. 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. Individual souls progress or deteriorate — they move up or down — as they incarnate and reincarnate, If Lucifer and Ahriman had not interfered, all humans alive now would be Aryans. Waldorf teachers rarely consult the latest research about childhood education; they are rarely even aware of it [18]. It is a central strand in his teachings, and it runs throughout dozens of his published texts and lectures. That gives us an image of the evolution of humankind up until our time. You’ll see that I have not changed Steiner’s meaning: ◊ “[A] centre of cosmic influence [is] situated in the interior of Africa. That is how it came about that physically different races inhabited the earth and are still there in our time although evolution should really have proceeded [unimpeded].” [6]. — Rudolf Steiner, THE OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD, p. 42. "Those who have entered into the intellectual age no longer have a strong feeling for the animalistic-racial element.” — Rudolf Steiner, THE CYCLE OF THE YEAR AS BREATHING PROCESS OF THE EARTH (Anthroposophic Press, 1984), p. 68. Now you see, what helps him in this assimilation is his rear-brain. [24] Rudolf Steiner, THE KARMA OF UNTRUTHFULNESS, Vol. The entire Earth and all the good people on it are evolving upwards, Steiner taught. This doctrine is appalling on almost every level. Of course, not all Waldorf schools in existence today are run by dyed-in-the-wool, true-believing Anthroposophists. There were 29 schools listed on the Steiner Waldorf Schools Fellowship’s (SWSF) website at the time I started writing this post. No matter how we cut it, according to Steiner, the black is currently lower than the white in an important sense: S/he occupies a lower level; s/he is a member of a lower race. Our souls progress as they ascend through the ranks of the races, incarnating first in lowly races, and rising later through incarnation in higher and higher racial forms. "However, Lucifer and Ahriman interfered and thwarted the original design. But today spiritual insight itself is necessary. According to Steiner, it is not true that everyone passes through all levels. The problems with Waldorf schooling would certainly be alleviated if Steiner and Anthroposophy were wholly eliminated from Waldorf culture. Yearbook, 2005). What Ofsted found at ‘Rotten to the core’ RSSKL and what has come to light since its closure has been awful, shocking stuff. How can we sort this out? — R.R. And if we go over to Africa, there we have the black race. On the first chapter of "die Kernpunkte" [Core Points of the Social Question]. The white race is the future, the race that is spiritually creative." They could not adapt themselves to post-Atlantean conditions; the last remnant of these people are the American Indians; they had degenerated. 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…”. So, in Anthroposophy, race remains important today, and it will remain so for thousands of years to come. (Challenging Anthroposophy and Steiner Education). but we also lose sight of much that is important, so we must evolve further, to greater vision. Some Waldorf schools already function without relying absolutely on the guidance provided by Rudolf Steiner [13]. They have grown together with it [i.e., merged with it], but not in the forms of the later epoch. It is crucially important to remember that "intermarriage" in colonial circumstances usually meant violent sexual coercion of women from colonized groups by European men. Steiner's point is that the colonial imposition of "civilization" onto distant populations will succeed if the colonizers pay attention to the racial constitution of the colonized peoples, and that the racial-evolutionary status of "savage" peoples, reflected in the structure of their blood, is the decisive criterion for determining whether or not the colonizers should interbreed with the colonized. What can you conclude? One must always pay attention to this evolutionary process. And so on [12]. The books examined are SPIRITUAL-SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUMAN BEING and THE MISSION OF INDIVIDUAL FOLK-SOULS IN CONNECTION WITH GERMANIC-NORDIC MYTHOLOGY. However, in fact, some humans alive today represent previous evolutionary levels, according to Steiner — they are not Aryans. In this way the energies of the cosmos affect the whole person. This is why the Negroes are black. In April, 2009, I had occasion to write a brief summary of Steiner’s racial views. Bear in mind, Steiner taught that spirits are real, living entities — they are gods. She is a member or a low race while the white person is a member of a high race. ...Anthroposophy impacts on real children. Evil or deficient people get left behind. It goes through his spinal cord. They do not advance with world evolution, they remain behind at a certain stage. "People who listen to the great leaders of humankind, and preserve their soul with its eternal essence, reincarnate in an advanced race; in the same way he who ignores the great teacher, who rejects the great leader of humankind, will always reincarnate in the same race, because he was only able to develop the one form. That is where his instinctual life comes from. 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. It omits the chapter which when translated would be titled “The Essence of Jewry”. The process will not be peaceful. In progressing to higher and higher evolutionary forms, a human soul should incarnate in progressively higher races, starting at black and rising to white. Let us suppose he reaches what is to be reached in sixteen incarnations; he takes the sixteen false paths. When this race goes toward the West, it dies out. modern science and scholarship. On Wilson's theories. It wasn't. 132-3. This critical Steiner mother notes an obvious inconsistency. Knowing that overt racism is often considered objectionable, they often avoid overt professions of their racist attitudes and ideas. And what he said in public one day was often different from what he said publicly on other days. Anthroposophy must be developed out of the spirit. [...] This sort of independent thinking which Europeans develop in dealing with their surroundings, the Asians do not have this. Readers who consider Anthroposophy a source of spiritual wisdom face particular temptations when the content of a given Steiner text departs from the Steiner that they know and love; in many cases they understandably want to read the text in a way that makes it more compatible with what drew them to Anthroposophy in the first place. and they use the intermediate portion of the brain. Finally, one further crucial factor which many Anthroposophists today entirely overlook is that a number of Anthroposophists historically have explicitly opposed intermarriage between different racial and ethnic groups. He taught that numerous people will fall out of evolution long before the good humans move to their reward. Most Anthroposophists deny this, although a few have acknowledged the truth. The white population of America. Therefore this mission has been fulfilled. Americans send anti-spiritual forces abroad in the wide world. In the "ideal future" there will be just one “pure, ideal human type.” Races will no longer exist when all humans are equally evolved, when they are all uniformly alike. This is the unprejudicial truth, according to Steiner. And while Martins quotes extensively from Steiner’s 1911 book on The Apocalypse of St. John, he does not cite the passages about a coming “War of All against All” and the emergence of a “race of good” and a contrasting “race of evil.”. Humanity will become freer of physical ties in order to form groups from the aspect of the spirit [i.e., we will form groupings based on spiritual, not racial, affinities]. Racism means judging people based on race. Hence, s/he trails behind all good, mature whites walking the Earth today. "The American Indians died out, not because of European persecutions, but because they were destined to succumb to those forces which hastened their extinction." has in a certain respect to appeal to what we call the development of a higher ego from out of the lower. He framed his position as spiritually enlightened; he spoke, often, in lofty terms; yet he was, manifestly, a racist. In fact, Steiner imputed great powers to all forms of art, including all forms of literature. The single greatest problem with Waldorf schools will probably remain the single greatest problem with Waldorf schools. Races would never become decadent, never decline, if there weren't souls that are...unwilling to move up to a higher racial form. People evolve to higher racial forms because they are good, Steiner said. What does this amount to? A Fire Spirit or Archangel manifests in a folk-soul, governing the relationship between individual human beings and the whole of a people or race.” [29]. 69-70. The fact that people no longer want the great universal-human principles, but prefer to segregate themselves and develop national forces, that is exactly what lead to the great war! That was followed by Hyperborea, Lemuria, and Atlantis. A white man, for instance, has a different god than a black man has. We all were black once. "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. So believing that blacks are less evolved than whites means passing a permanent racial judgment. If so, it is a joke that only a racist would tell or find amusing. It has an enormous effect on the blood and the race and contributes considerably toward French decadence. 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. — R.R. Please check the sources I cite. Looking back, he has written: The following is excerpted from the archive. The black or Negro race is substantially determined by these childhood characteristics.” [12] Steiner taught that blacks are childish, Asians are adolescent, whites are adult, and “red Indians” are old, dying, or effectively extinct. They take it in. 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. humans were the first, central life form on Earth. Instead of racial diversities developing consecutively, older racial forms remained unchanged and newer ones began to evolve at the same time. 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. This is the context within which he raises the issue of intermarriage and exogamy. Unevolved souls belong in Africa, where they may develop and hope to develop higher during future incarnations, Steiner indicated. bad souls) [sic].” [27]. Looking online for information on Steiner schools’ policies regarding racism, the mother discovered that in the book HOW TO KNOW HIGHER WORLDS, by Rudolf Steiner (an edition last published 2008, Anthroposophic Press), a book on which one of the school trustees was basing workshops, there is an account of ‘reincarnation through the races’: “Peoples and races are after all, merely different developmental stages in our evolution toward a pure humanity. they live at the lowest level, being subject to their impulses. To simplify somewhat, the idea was that "higher" races properly go around the world conquering and colonizing and mixing their stock with "lower" races, which spreads civilization, but when the "higher" races spread themselves too thin, then racial decline and eventual disaster is certain. "That is the reason why there were fewer and fewer descendants in the subordinate races and more and more descendants in the higher races. So what did Steiner sometimes say, amidst his protestations of virtue? So believing that blacks are less evolved than whites means passing a permanent racial judgment. Now, ending the thought experiment, ask yourself whether Steiner's views on race are helpful in the real world. By reason of the fact that they have not made use of life! Once parents became concerned about the racism, they tried to find out … If one race "stands so much the higher" because it approaches the human ideal (as imagined by white, European Rudolf Steiner), other races must be judged so much the lower, because they deviate from the human ideal (as imagined by white, European Rudolf Steiner). failing to keep pace with proper human evolution. What gets lost in such whitewashed translations is, among other things, Steiner's equation of black people as such with barbaric savages. instead, the lower animals descended from us —. These are the sorts of doctrines that Waldorf spokespeople continue to defend today. — doctrines that they deem spiritual but that virtually everyone else recognizes as racist. If we ask why some particular thing about a man is like this or like that, we are referred back from the individual to the genus. [3] Rudolf Steiner, UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN BEING (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1993), p. 103. While individual schools may have had issues with bullying, there was nothing in the Steiner approach that promoted or condoned bullying, he said. As a result, other souls that normally should have incarnated in China have been shunted to Europe instead. The bracketed explanations are by Mellett: "Skin color and other characteristics of the black, white, yellow, brown, and copper-red races of humanity. 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. ), with the top three categories marked “apes,” then (American) “Indians,” then at the very top “Aryans.” Steiner’s 1907 lecture refers to both apes and Indians as “decadent side branches” of evolution. "be on the up- or down-grade of its evolution...." — Ibid., p. 13. Let us suppose he reaches what is to be reached in sixteen incarnations; he takes the sixteen false paths. We are all the same. If all the souls had progressed, the backward races would either have decreased very much in population, or the bodies would be occupied by newly incoming souls at a low stage of development. everybody passes through all the racial levels. Steiner and his doctrines are so fundamental to Waldorf schooling that in all probability they will remain present, to some degree, as long as Waldorf education exists as an identifiable movement. ◊ "One can only understand history and all of social life, including today's social life, if one pays attention to people's racial characteristics. Instead, they follow a pattern of schooling set down by a mystic (who was not a professional educator) a century ago. In the current era, the dominant race is the Aryan race, which evolved out of a small number of specially advanced colonists from Atlantis. The black person standing before you is a member of a low race, which means s/he is evil or at least spiritually retarded. The members of the good races will have risen high, beyond race, while you and the other incorrigibles lose your last vestiges of humanity. That way lies civilization and spirituality; other directions lead to (or cause people to remain mired in) savagery and materialism. "Recently I went into a bookstore in Basel and found an example of the latest publishing agenda: a Negro novel, just as the Negroes in general are entering into European civilization step by step! Then there is the yellow race, in the middle between the earth and the cosmos. "Decadence," in Steiner's teachings, is tantamount to dying. But a knowledge of the history of the anthroposophical movement is essential if we are to make any sense of the difficulties the schools face today: “I would be pleased if my research provided an opportunity for Waldorf admirers to ponder this contentious history and take its lessons seriously. A boy who used the word was not punished either, and another boy who screamed it in the playground was not punished. [23] Steiner here explains why, in his view, the "Wandering Jew" remains trapped at a low evolutionary level — he has rejected Christ. 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. Here is an item from the Waldorf Watch News page. I will quote Steiner, then I will offer a response. He has, as they say, powerful physical drives, powerful instincts. Does this mean that Steiner's teachings on such matters are free of the taint of racism? Indeed several of Steiner's most prominent followers, including leading Anthroposophist race theorists of the first half of the twentieth century, firmly rejected racial intermarriage and "blood mixing," above all Richard Karutz in Germany and Massimo Scaligero in Italy. They do bully one another, but the adult task is to transform that and help them find productive and creative ways, and you can’t do that by sitting back and allowing it to happen.”. Thus we have an upright evolutionary trunk as well as side branches which decay." (Note that Steiner, here again, speaks explicitly of "higher races. ...The second example of sanitisation of English translations of Steiner texts is another one where an entire chapter of the original book is absent from the English translation of it. For all spiritual science. Indeed, the only way a bigot of this sort could clear himself would be to say clearly that he has made many racially bigoted statements in the past, and he realizes now that he was wrong to make them, and he now utterly repudiates them. ", “Imagine the surface of the Earth with an eastern region here and a western one there ... [T]hrough that other being, which takes possession of the human being before birth and has to depart before death, via a detour through that other being the various forces work especially strongly through racial types and geographical variations.”, , VOM LEBEN DES MENSCHEN UND DER ERDE - ÜBER DAS ESEN DES CHRISTENTUMS (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1993) p. 55. (On this page, I include various English translations, all having essentially the same meaning.). Later, something similar again took place. "...Only to the extent that a man has emancipated himself in this way from all that is generic, does he count as a free spirit within a human community. That is where his instinctual life comes from. Children should be cosseted, swaddled in soothing fantasies, and infantilized [17]. For them, only the individual human being is real ... [But] a folk-soul or folk-spirit is a reality. 108-109. 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. (Their demise was shown in their faces, which struck Steiner as bony or gaunt. In realistic, human terms, a "near future" lasting a "few thousand years" would be a virtual eternity, especially if it entailed a continuation of racism. This argument overlooks a few things. Nature spirits, or elemental beings, reside within nature; they lack true spirit. Serving students Nursery through 12th grade. He carefully reviews “the full spectrum of antisemitic clichés” in Steiner’s work (29). Taking his starting point in the theosophist racial doctrine and in contemporary theories of evolution, especially Ernst Haeckel’s theory of development, Steiner elaborated a comprehensive theory in which various races and cultural epochs were given their places in a hierarchy and were understood within a developmental perspective. Everywhere he takes in light and warmth, everywhere. "Copper red" and "brown" are at the bottom. If things go as they should, the higher races should become more and more populated as the lower races gradually wither away. In the course of millennia our planet transforms itself, and this transformation also demands a development of humankind. Everywhere he takes in light and warmth, everywhere. 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 mother reports that the teacher did not agree with the children that this is a racist word, indeed it was her daughter who was punished for refusing to back down. Allegations of racism and widespread bullying by both teachers and pupils in private Steiner schools have emerged in government memos that considered whether they should be given public money to open free schools. On the subject of race, Steiner's views are pernicious and indefensible. Progress — entailing possession of a true human ego — should be our goal. No man is all genus, none is all individuality. And the fundamental distinction remains, built into Steiner's worldview: There are ascending races and declining races, races that are on the "up-grade" and races that are on the "down-grade." And one can only understand all that is spiritual in the correct sense if one first examines how this spiritual element operates within people precisely through the color of their skin.”, > “We here in Europe call ourselves the white race. Much of Steiner's lecture presents standard theosophical teachings about the physical body, the etheric body, and the astral body, the relationship between the "I" and the blood, the intertwinement of macrocosm and microcosm, and so forth. — Rudolf Steiner, THE MISSION OF FOLK SOULS (Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co., 1929), lecture 6, GA 121. The earth does not wait for him, the earth goes forward and he finally arrives at a point where he can no longer incorporate in a human body, for none are in existence. 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. The more perfectly that individual members of that race or people express the pure, ideal human type – the more they have worked their way through from the physical and mortal to the super sensible and immortal realm – the ‘higher’ this race or nation is.”. This is utterly different from accepting all races as equally worthy of respect and honor. Blacks and Orientals have blood types that are physically different from ours, our teacher informed us: Receiving such inferior blood would diminish our Aryan qualities. Rudolf Steiner's Quackery. Anthroposophists can easily find Steiner quotations that seem to be full of light and love — and they seem to think that these remarks render Steiner's other, nastier comments null and void. Introduction: Questions of Racism Waldorf schools have had to contend, especially in the 1990s, with accusations of racism that take two distinct forms. “I would say categorically that a statement about karma in that context is wholly inappropriate and incorrect. Rudolf Steiner, DAS HEREINWIRKEN GEISTIGER WESENHEITEN IN DEN MENSCHEN (Rudolf Steiner Verlag, 1984), GA 102, p. 174. [http://waldorfblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/staudenmaier-rezension/], Ansgar Martins has written a perceptive and provocative book about a topic many prefer to avoid: Rudolf Steiner’s racial teachings, a perennial bone of contention between anthroposophists and their critics. I’ll append it here, although it repeats some of what we have already seen. Such a renunciation is not in the cards yet, and it may never be. And one can say that since everything the Jews have done can now be done consciously by all people, the best thing that the Jews could do would be to disappear into the rest of humankind, to blend in with the rest of humankind, so that Jewry as a people would simply cease to exist. This may make it seem odd to us that the human being, who after all has a unified nature, can appear in such a different and imperfect form. This is troubling — or should I say deplorable? The lips are shapeless and thick, the nose somewhat flat and not yet grown up in a sense ... [Negroes'] stories, their views on the world and creation are somewhat childish. There will be no more bodies in which souls that have grown too much involved in their bodily nature can incarnate. What does Steiner mean by these words? [A]dherence to Anthroposophy and aspects of this pedagogy can lead teachers to make decisions about individual children based on race and disability, which many people would consider to be outright discrimination. (This is a different translation of the same book, published under a slightly different title.). What, in short, if Anthroposophy is poppycock? The "beings" Steiner refers to are humans or their degenerate descendants, individuals who have sunk to subhuman status. Rudolf Steiner, THE OCCULT SIGNIFICANCE OF BLOOD (Health Research Books, 1972), p. 13. or an utterly barbaric savage become civilized?" Steiner often contradicted himself. They say their doctrines promote freedom, when they don't. Normality leads to whiteness, in all of its meanings. That gets especially tricky when race comes up, not least because what counted as offensive and strange regarding racial statements has shifted markedly over the past century. The one race stands at the level of what we call the highest civilization, while the other stands at what appears to be the most primitive, subordinate level of civilization. Rudolf Steiner School is a private, Waldorf School on the Upper East Side of New York City. (There weren't enough Chinese bodies to go around.) Raising the possibility of a breakthrough, in 2012 an Anthroposophical publishing house. 120-121. Here, Steiner voices two interconnected, standard anti-Semitic slanders: Jews are highly materialist, and they are incapable of understanding spiritual truths. Lowly races, which should have died out, remain in existence because they are populated by errant souls who have made this self-destructive choice. ( `` we here in Europe '' ) stand at different stages their. 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