The Constitution of the General Anthroposophical Society

GA 260a — 3 February 1924

The School of Spiritual Science III

The School of Spiritual Science will be organized in such a way that anyone who wishes to participate in its activities will indicate this to the management. Initially, only the first class will be established. The next two will be added after some time. Participants will only be divided into classes. The sections will be established so that the management can respond to the specific aspirations of the members of each individual class. Participants will therefore not become members of a section, but of a class. However, those seeking esoteric deepening, for example in medicine, will be able to find it step by step, as the management of the medical section will make arrangements for this. The same applies to the management of the various artistic and scientific sections. How a member of a class can achieve their particular goals through a specific section is determined by agreement with the head of the school (Rudolf Steiner) and with the heads of the sections. The general anthroposophical section will have to be available to all members of the school. For this reason alone, admission cannot be to a section, but only to a class.

Since the School of Spiritual Science cannot be a university like the ordinary ones, it will not strive to compete with them in any way or to be a substitute for them. However, what cannot be found at ordinary universities, esoteric deepening, can be found at the Goetheanum. There, one will receive precisely what the soul seeks in its quest for knowledge. This quest for knowledge can be a universal human one. For those who have only this universal human need to find the soul's paths to the spiritual world, the general section will be there. It will form an “esoteric school” for them. For those who want to orient their lives in a specific scientific, artistic, or other way, the other sections will endeavor to show the way. In this way, every seeking person at the “University at the Goetheanum” should find what they are striving for according to the particular conditions of their life. The School of Spiritual Science is therefore not intended to be a purely scientific institution, but a purely human one; however, it should also be able to fully meet the esoteric needs of scientists and artists.