The School of Spiritual Science III

The establishment of the School of Spiritual Science will be such that anyone who wants to take part in its endeavors will indicate this to the leadership. Initially, it will be a matter of establishing the first class. The next two will be added after some time. Only the division into classes will be considered in relation to the participants. The sections will be established so that the leadership can meet the specific aspirations of the members of each class in each individual class. So you don't become a member of just any section, but of a class. But those who seek an esoteric deepening, for example in medicine, will be able to find it step by step, because the leadership of the medical section makes arrangements for it. And so do the leaders of the various artistic and scientific sections. How a class in a particular section can achieve its particular goals will be determined in agreement with the head of the school as a whole (Rudolf Steiner) and with the heads of the sections. The general anthroposophical section will, after all, have to be there for 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 in the same way as ordinary universities, it will not seek to compete with them or to be a substitute for them. However, what is not found at ordinary universities, namely esoteric deepening, can be found at the Goetheanum. This is precisely what the soul seeks in its quest for knowledge. This striving for knowledge can be the very general human one. For those who have only this general human need to find the soul's path 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 special scientific, artistic, etc. way, the other sections will endeavor to show the way. Thus every seeker can find at the School of Spiritual Science at the Goetheanum that which they wish to strive for in the particular circumstances of their life. The School should not be a purely scientific institution, but a purely human one; it should, however, be able to fully meet the esoteric needs of scientists and artists. (To be continued in the next issue.)