Anthroposophical Society

The Anthroposophical Society is, according to its self-understanding, "a community of people who are convinced that the tasks posed by the present and the future can only be solved through a spiritual deepening of life". The foundation for this is the anthroposophy founded by Rudolf Steiner.

The General Anthroposophical Society (German: Allgemeine Anthroposophische Gesellschaft, AAG) - which is not identical with the Anthroposophical Society founded at the Christmas Conference in 1923, but is a transformation of the original "Bauverein" - with its headquarters at the Goetheanum in Dornach, is active worldwide. It is organised decentrally in local branches, regional centres and national societies, which are economically autonomous, organising their activities independently. It is also the sponsor of the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum.

"The Anthroposophical Society is a thoroughly public one. Its membership is open to anyone, without distinction of nation, class, religion, scientific or artistic conviction, who sees something justified in the existence of such an institution as the Goetheanum in Dornach as a School of Spiritual Science."
(Statutes of the Anthroposophical Society 1923, Article 4)

The aim of this School is "research in the spiritual field", the aim of the Society is to make such research possible and to nurture the spiritual life in the individual and in the community on the basis of this research. On the basis of its Statutes, the Society attempts to fulfil its task by making anthroposophical spiritual science with its results for brotherhood in human coexistence, for moral and religious as well as artistic and general spiritual life in the human being the focus of its efforts.

Literature

• Uwe Werner: Anthroposophen in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus (1933-1945), Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1999, ISBN 978-3486563627
• Martins, Ansgar (Hrsg.), Hans Büchenbacher: Hans Büchenbacher. Erinnerungen 1933 - 1949: Zugleich eine Studie zur Geschichte der Anthroposophie im Nationalsozialismus, Mit Kommentaren und fünf Anhängen herausgegeben von Ansgar Martins, Info3-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3957790077, Rezension
• a:Lorenzo Ravagli: Selbsterkenntnis in der Geschichte - Anthroposophische Gesellschaft und Bewegung im 20. Jahrhundert. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zur zweiten großen Sezession 1875–1952. glomer.com 2020, ISBN 978-3-9821354-3-4
• Rudolf Steiner: Die Konstitution der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft und der Freien Hochschule für Geisteswissenschaft. Der Wiederaufbau des Goetheanum, GA 260a (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2606-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated. Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com. Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English. Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA) Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.