Anthroposophy? Buddhism? Worlds Apart?

“Stone Soup” / photo bruce donehower

Dear Friends,

This is an edited abridgment of the commentary on Lecture Nine from the lecture cycle “According to Luke” that I gave during the Faust Branch Holy Night celebrations on January 4, 2025 on Zoom. This night was also a meeting night for the North American Section for the Literary Arts and Humanities of the School for Spiritual Science. I was asked at the last minute by the Faust Branch to substitute for a presenter who was ill. “According to Luke” is the SteinerBooks title for the series of ten lectures on the Luke Gospel that Rudolf Steiner gave in Basel in 1909. 

For those who attend our Section meetings, Professor Robert McDermott and I will take up this topic again in a dialogue that Robert and I have planned for the Section meeting on May 3, 2025. For this dialogue, Professor McDermott and I will be making use of the lectures by Rudolf Steiner found in the book “From Buddha to Christ” published by the Anthroposophical Press. All of these lectures can be found on the SteinerArchive site, however. I’ll post the individual lecture dates as the event comes closer. 

Victorious Spirit!
Flame through the impotence
Of irresolute souls!
Burn out the ego addiction.
Ignite compassion,
That selflessness,
The life stream of humanity
May rule
As the wellspring
Of spiritual rebirth!

(Buddhistic?) Verse by Rudolf Steiner

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