Has Steiner Really Endorsed the Present
Global Vaccination Campaign?
By Brane Žilavec, Easter 2021; Third part: 17 February 2023
Has Steiner Really Endorsed the Present
Global Vaccination Campaign?
By Brane Žilavec, Easter 2021; Third part: 17 February 2023
In the present time we are not only witnessing the unprecedented push to vaccinate all humanity against SARS-CoV-2 virus (the existence of which has never been scientifically proven), [1] but we are also witnessing the largest medical experiment in human history into which people are tricked without informed consent. [2] This doesn’t refer only to the use of experimental genetically modified vaccines (mRNA vaccines), but to the fact that due to immense rush to produce new vaccines there was simply not enough time to perform all stages of trials which usually take about five years. [3] For that reason alone all those people who are receiving the vaccine are participating in an experiment, the outcome of which will be known only in future. In spite of this people are constantly assured that new vaccines have passed rigorous safety tests and that “the standard for testing and monitoring vaccines is higher than for most other medicines, because they are unusual in the medical world in that they are put into the bodies of healthy people, especially healthy children.” [4] And Bill Gates has even exhibited some prophetic qualities, for he already knows that the new GM vaccines have been a great success. [5]
Due to these and a number of other justifiable reasons, many people don’t trust the official explanations about the origin and reasons for the present ‘pandemic’ and the need for vaccination. On the other side we have many people who are seeing vaccines as the only solution to get out of the present ‘pandemic’. The outcome of all this is an increasing polarisation into two camps: the supporters and the opponents of vaccination.
One might expect that this polarisation is not present (with some exceptions) among the members of the anthroposophical movement for they have at their disposal the source of wisdom which can overcome very different views of such important questions as is the question of human health. At least one could expect that this crisis would spur an intensive social dialogue among the anthroposophists and especially among the anthroposophic medical staff – because “individual anthroposophic physicians, just as conventional physicians and other practitioners, have various personal opinions about the utility of vaccinations.” [6]
In spite of all these facts which call for a sceptical approach – or at least some serious reservation – the representatives of the International Federation of Anthroposophic Medical Associations (IVAA) and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum – or anthroposophic ‘policy makers’ (as they call themselves) – are welcoming “the development of safe and effective vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 in the hope that they will play an important role in overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic.”
But this was not yet the end of unexpected surprises, for they are even supporting the goal to vaccinate the whole global population [7] – with the exception of children – with new Covid vaccines on the basis of voluntary informed consent. They agree that “SARS-CoV-2 vaccines must be available and accessible worldwide” and for that purpose they “call for more solidarity and cooperation among countries” [8] to ensure that also the poorer countries will be capable of vaccinating their population. [9]
The social aspect:
Do not be fanatical in the matter of vaccination
Let’s start with the question: Is there any argument in Steiner’s work that would support such an obvious inclination in favour of the present vaccination campaign? There is one short passage from a conversation on smallpox vaccination (from a workshop held during a conference for doctors in Dornach in 1924) which seems to give an argument for a pro-vaccine position of anthroposophic doctors. In this workshop there was raised the following question: “Where I live the effect of education and so on is very difficult, so what should I do about it?” [10]
Steiner’s answer was: “Well, in such situations you have to vaccinate. There’s nothing for it. Not for medical reasons but on general anthroposophical grounds I would emphatically not recommend any fanatical opposition to vaccination. We are not aiming to put up a fanatical opposition to these things; what we want to do is change things in an overall way by means of insight. With any physicians who are friends of mine I have always made known my opposition to acting fanatically, for example in the case of Dr Asch who absolutely insisted on not vaccinating. I have always been against this attitude. If one doctor doesn’t vaccinate, well then, another will. It is entirely absurd to act fanatically in isolation.” [11]
Let’s look on this description in more detail. Steiner has expressed his objection to fanatical opposition to vaccination in the cases when doctor resist to vaccinate those who wish to be vaccinated. For only in such a case will people find another doctor who will then vaccinate. However, this doesn’t mean general endorsement of all vaccination campaigns without thorough understanding of the reasons for their implementation. Steiner is clearly saying that things need to be guided by means of insight and not on the basis of dogmatic positions which do not take into account all possible benefits and dangers of vaccination.
Such an approach to the questions of vaccination shouldn’t be expected only from those who are opposed to vaccination, but also from those who speak or write in favour of it. But if we compare the manner of argumentation of viewpoints among anti-vaccine and pro-vaccine advocates in the present campaign of vaccination against the new coronavirus we find much more fanaticism among the proponents. For example, if the vaccines are really so safe and effective as the proponents are assuring us, then there would not exist any need for censorship and slandering of critics in media and internet platforms which is the modern variant of the burning of the books and prosecution of heretics in the medieval times.
Besides, we cannot simply transfer the almost 100 years old Steiner’s recommendation that “on general anthroposophical grounds” we should not express “any fanatical opposition to vaccination” to the present situation without serious critical evaluation of all circumstances in comparison to those that existed in his time. For this is not consistent with the following warning by Steiner: “Today the view is still widespread that there can be sentences which one forms and which can then be spoken on any occasion, because they have absolute validity. In reality, for our life in the present, there are no longer such sentences. Every sentence that is possible in a certain connection, is today impossible in another connection. That means, we have entered upon an epoch of humanity’s development in which we need to direct our view to this many-sidedness of living situations.” [12]
And the living conditions in Steiner’s time were in many aspects quite different from the present one. For example, at that time there was still a strong memory of millions of deaths in the Spanish flu pandemic while in the last few decades we are dealing mainly with attempts of the pharmaceutical industry to create new epidemics for the sake of increasing profits – as has been presented in the book Virus Mania. Besides, we have now much more serious health problems with the constant increase of non-communicable diseases than with all communicable-disease combined. This is evident from the following chart which shows deaths by cause in the world from 1990 to 2017: [13]
In the present crisis there is also coming to the surface an increasing amount of evidence about the extraordinary extent of corruption inside those systems whose basic task is to protect the public health and wellbeing: the political, scientific, medical, legal and media/information systems. [14] For sure this situation cannot be compared with the extent of corruption the hundred years ago.
It is interesting that Steiner has already in his time mentioned the negative impacts of the medical regulations which are one of the key tools for the control of the population in the present crisis. While speaking about the guidelines for treatments of children with special needs he said: “In dealing with adult mental patients you will not be able to apply the guidance in the same way; for something extraneous comes in there – namely, the law. And the moment you have to reckon with factors other than those that arise out of the nature of the case, the moment you have to do with hard and fast laws, the thing becomes unworkable. For what the law lays down cannot be individual in its application, it has to be general. So far as treatment of abnormal human beings is concerned, the law is a veritable poison. It is there in the world, however, and you have to reckon with it. The things of which we are speaking here cannot be applied fanatically; you have to let them percolate into life, in ways that are possible and practicable.” [15]
In the present crisis we have more than enough evidence of the ‘poisoning effect’ of bad medical regulations that are imposed upon population without any social dialogue. This is the result of the so-called ‘corporate capture of public health’, when the people with strong links to pharmaceutical companies (either as former or future employees, or as shareholders, or patent holders) get the leading positions in governmental medical regulatory bodies whose task is to protect people from these very same companies.
Let’s look at one result of the ‘revolving doors’ between Big Pharma and the governmental agencies. The National Health Service (NHS) in Great Britain has committed to purchase Covid-19 vaccines from the US for an agreed price of around 35 billion pounds on the basis of pre-negotiated pandemic vaccine contracts that a number of wealthy countries have with vaccine manufacturers. [16] In the previous years the Big Pharma in the US had an annual income of about 50 billion dollars (35 billion pounds) while in the 1950s earnings were about 270 millions dollars. [17] This means that American pharmaceutical companies will now earn the same amount of money from single country as was before earned from all countries in the world.
Now, if we compare this amount with 150 billion pounds which includes
costs of all other health and social care services combined this is already a huge
amount of money for one disease! But beside vaccines there is also
the cost of PCR tests and all the rest. In the below chart [18]
we can see that the total costs of Covid-19 will be more than 70 billion
pounds. That is almost half of the English Department for Health and Social
Care’s budget in the year 2019/20.
And all this huge amount of money for a single disease!!!
One reason why so many people are not capable to see such hidden realities behind the ‘corona pandemic’ is that “in regard to conditions of the times, people are strongly inclined not actually to touch reality but to take things according to what suits them. Forming a judgment that is really objective is, naturally, not so easy as forming one which aims most directly toward easy formulation. Judgments that are objective are not readily reduced to formulas; especially when they take hold of the social, the human, or the political life, because in these fields the opposite of what is assumed is almost always true. Only when the effort is made not to form any kind of judgment regarding such relationships, but to form pictures – in other words, when we ascend to the imaginative life – shall we take the path which is approximately right. In our epoch it is of special importance to make the effort to form pictures, not really abstract, isolated judgments.” [19]
All kinds of fanaticism are based on isolated judgments and one-sided truths which are taking possession of those who passionately believe in them. But such an approach doesn’t lead to a true understanding of any disputed issue, including the issue of vaccination that has come to the fore in the present crisis with such force. For “truth cannot be gained from an understanding that seeks to encompass an object in a single glance, but only from putting together the true views resulting from different perspectives.” [20] And this is what is really lacking in many conclusions and judgments about various aspects of the present ‘corona pandemic’, including in the anthroposophical ones.
For all these reasons I assume that in the present situation Steiner might well say that “it is entirely absurd to fanatically support the effort to vaccinate all people in the world with new Covid-19 vaccines, [21] for there are already enough people with blind faith in the system of medicine that relies on illusory promises of ‘eternal health’ while we are simultaneously witnessing apocalyptic increases of diseases. We have a medical system which does not build upon the innate healing powers of individuals, but instead enslaves people to long-term dependency on drugs from birth to death. This is the sin against the human freedom and proper spiritual development of humanity. What we really urgently need is renewal of education, medicine, nutrition and agriculture by means of spiritual science. And in the social realm we urgently need the renewal of the existing social structures by means of social threefolding.”
However there is little hope that we can achieve the renewal of the medical system without establishing alliances with all people and movements – including the anti-vaccine movements – which are opposing authoritarian and corrupt system of governance that limits or suppress our right for free choice of medical therapies. For our main power is in the number of people who are willing to unite in common fight for what they consider the core ideals of human existence. As the experiences in the present ‘corona pandemic’ are showing we are already in the midst of this fight between those who want to take even more control of our lives from what they already have, and those who are opposing them. And due to the present crisis caused by the deeds of those people who are part of the existing undemocratic and unhealthy system of decision-making, we can also witness the emergence of new initiatives, movements and alliances that aim to establish a more healthy society in the realm of human health and in the realm of social structures.
Therefore the question that arises is: On which side of this intensified battle will be the members of anthroposophic medicine and other members of the anthroposophical movement?
Anthroposophic Pro-Vaccine Statements as Modern ‘Papal Bulls’
Another question which can be raised in regard to the two pro-vaccine statements of IVAA and the Medical Section at the Goetheanum is: Would Steiner – if he was still president of the Anthroposophical Society – approved such action? The answer is quite simple: There is nothing in the essential revelations of spiritual science to support such a deed!
On the contrary, there are enough well-founded reasons as to why the members of the anthroposophical movement should not issue such statements – even in a case where they contained only indisputable claims. Steiner’s approach was based on the principle that “the spiritual scientist is obliged to state the truth of things. His attitude must never be agitatorial, and he must be confident that when a person has perceived the truth of what he says, he will then proceed to do the right thing” [22] or he will continue with doing the wrong thing if he is not yet able to grasp the truth.
This attitude is the only one suitable for the present time, the age of the consciousness soul when one of the main tasks of humanity is to develop ethical individualism in the atmosphere of absolute freedom of cultural life. [23] Since the human being is now in the process of emancipation from the old hierarchical structures “he can no longer expect directions from above. There are no temples any more that give such directions. Neither can the Goetheanum be expected to give directions. Only the individual is left.” [24]
People need to find their own way in the confusion of the present time, for “man can never become a free being unless his actions have their source in those ideas which are rooted in the intuitions of the single individual. This ethical individualism only recognises as the final goal of man’s moral development what is called the free spirit, which struggles free of the constraint of natural laws and all conventional moral norms” [25] that are issued by outer authorities.
When we fully understand this ethical principle then it becomes obvious that any form of guidelines which are used to force or insinuate or suggest to people to do things for the sake of the whole community goes against the imperative that we regard “the Will-element, and everything in another person’s subconscious, as something which should on no account be intruded upon; it must be regarded as his innermost sanctuary. We need consider only how unpleasant to a healthy soul-life is the feeling that the Will of another man is being put under compulsion.” We should always keep in mind that “the only healthy way to gain influence over another person’s Will is through cognition. Cognition should be the means whereby one soul comes to an understanding with another. A person must first translate his wishes into a conceptual form; then they may influence another person’s cognition, and they should touch his Will only by this indirect route. Nothing else can be satisfactory in the highest, most ideal sense to a healthy life of soul.” [26]
For there is only “one authority to which we should submit ourselves willingly and of our own free will, and that is the authority of truth, so that all we can achieve, not only in what we say but also in what we do, in all our individual deeds, may be permeated by truthfulness.” [27] This means that one needs to explain on the basis of good arguments why he or she thinks that people should be vaccinated and then leave it to them to decide if these arguments suffice or not.
If there was any real need for a statement about vaccination, then representatives of IVAA and the Medical Section should just explain why each individual anthroposophic doctor and other members of staff need to decide if they support or do not support the present vaccination campaign against Covid-19.
However, by issuing pro-vaccine statements the anthroposophic ‘policy makers’ have intervened into or interfered with the ‘innermost sanctuary’ of free Will of other members of the anthroposophical movement. Such intervention is nothing less than the modern version of the issuing of papal bulls in the Middle Ages in which clear instructions about proper moral behaviour in regard to various life controversies were given to the faithful. By issuing the pro-vaccine statements they demonstrated the unwillingness to follow the principle that the issue of “human freedom must be placed by us today in the centre of each and every true spiritual-scientific consideration.” [28] For “it is important today for anthroposophy to be presented in such a way as to be based to the smallest possible extent on belief in authority. In this age of intellectualism, we should not appeal to people’s belief in authority but to their capacity for intelligent examination.” [29]
One can wonder if “anthroposophic institutions, Waldorf schools, medical clinics, and the Anthroposophical Society and its branches will actively, openly, and positively support what the Medical Section at the Goetheanum is calling for: informed consent for all, support of the importance and scientific necessity of a non-vaccinated population, and resistance against this vaccine being given to children and among schooling communities, for whom it is entirely unnecessary and could have devastating effects?” [30]
This is far too little for what all anthroposophic institutions and sections of the Anthroposophical Society should be doing in regard to vaccination if they were to grasp the essence of the spiritual battle of the present time. [31] For “spiritual science is a new sap of life, and humanity needs such new sap from time to time.” Spiritual science is “not just knowledge and doctrine, but also a force of life and a substance of our soul. Seen in this light, spiritual science is capable of working in life in such a way that it frees human beings from cares and worries. And that is how it has to work in our time, for it owes its existence not to arbitrariness, but to the knowledge that it is needed.” If we make enough effort then “spiritual knowledge will be medicine for our soul.” And by means of this medicine “all discord and all disharmonies of life will disappear when opposed by the harmonious thoughts and feelings” stimulated by revelations of all-encompassing spiritual wisdom. [32]
If one wonders why members of the anthroposophical movement have not yet reached a state of the ‘harmonious thoughts and feelings’ in regard to the present corona pandemic and vaccination – by means of modern mystery wisdom in the form of anthroposophy – then we might find one indication of possible reason in the fact that only “if men make their opinions more inward, then they come to a common opinion. It is a matter of inner experience, for example, that three times three makes nine, or that the three angles of a triangle make up 180 degrees. That is inner knowledge, and matters of inner knowledge need not be argued about. Of such a kind also are all spiritual truths. What is taught by spiritual science is discovered by men through their inner powers; along the inward path men will be led to absolute agreement and unity. There cannot be two opinions about a fact without one of them being wrong. The ideal lies in the greatest possible inwardness of knowledge that leads to peace and to unity.” [33]
As members of anthroposophical movement “we must understand that wisdom is the same for all.” The fact that we still disagree about many things demonstrates that we “have not yet found the way of coming together in one and the same wisdom. We will be able to do so if we truly apply ourselves to this wisdom and grow as individual as possible. If we find the spirit of the wisdom that is the same for all we will get out of the habit of saying: That’s the way I see it; that’s my point of view. We have to understand that there is no particular point of view when it comes to the wisdom that is the same for all, that having a point of view means that one has not yet progressed far enough” [34] in the study of anthroposophical spiritual science.
Shall One Imitate Steiner, Quote Him,
or Understand the Issue of Vaccination?
Among the latest arguments in favour of vaccination coming from the members of anthroposophical movement, was hearsay that Steiner has been vaccinated against smallpox in the period of the first world war. [35] As there was no source given, I had to make an inquiry to find its origin in unpublished reminiscences of life with Rudolf Steiner kept in Dornach archives.
In it Hedda Hummel writes: “It is known that at that time [World War I] the Anthroposophical Society had a kindergarten. But somewhere in Berlin, smallpox broke out. As far as I remember, children were vaccinated in schools and kindergartens. Dr. Steiner ordered that children be vaccinated in our kindergarten as well – including all adults entering the nursery. Dr. Steiner and his lady also had their vaccinations, as did all the rest of us who had access to the nursery. Dr. Steiner had a sore arm from the vaccination. At the time, the joke was that Dr. Steiner was doing women’s movements – as he was rubbing his sore arm like the rest of us – mostly women.” [36]
Now, whoever uses this fact as an argument in favour of vaccination – either in general, or in regard to the use of Covid vaccines – such a person expects nothing else than the members of the anthroposophical movement should imitate Steiner in the same fashion as children in the first seven years imitate adults!? However, as children grow older, this initial attitude which is a part of natural development – based on the absence of conscious knowledge of their own thinking, feeling and willing – must be followed with “a further stage in the learning process, where the children become more conscious of what they see and hear. They then recognise which characteristics are essential aspects of a given phenomenon.” [37]
Especially in the time of adolescence the young people “have the opportunity, through their encounters with people, ideas, and through real work, to sharpen their power of judgement.” This is of utmost importance, for “on leaving school young people confront a world whose complexity has become almost incomprehensible. Which faculties do these young people need in order to find their way and stand in the world in an independent, self-assured and responsible way?” [38]
For sure the way is not to imitate adults anymore, even if they are the authorities of the highest moral standard – which is so rare today! For “the central aim of Waldorf education is to accompany and support the development of the child so that the individual qualities of self-reliance and responsibility progressively unfold.” Therefore it is irrelevant if Steiner has been vaccinated against smallpox or not. What is essential is to understand the issue of vaccination on all this complexity, for only this will enable us to act in an “independent, self-assured and responsible way” [39] in the case of the present Covid vaccines or flu-vaccines or any other vaccines.
The need for critical examination of claims of official medical authorities is palpable if we look at the American lists of recommended vaccinations by CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). It is barely possible to safely navigate through a minefield of the so-called ‘parents-friendly’ maps of numerous recommendations of vaccines, such as:
They also warn that “pregnant people are more likely to get severely ill with Covid-19 compared with non-pregnant people. If you are pregnant, you can receive a Covid-19 vaccine. Getting a Covid-19 vaccine during pregnancy can protect you from severe illness from Covid-19.” [41]
When one take into account all possible aspects of the controversial question of vaccination in a suitable manner, then one can also understand the existence of an obvious contradiction between Steiner’s warnings about the harmful spiritual impacts of future vaccines and the fact that he “pointed out that he is against all radicalism in this sense and that he is not a ‘self-imposed fanatic against these things’. In addition, he repeatedly declares that he will be vaccinated against smallpox” [42] – and (as we have seen above) he has been vaccinated against smallpox “not because he was afraid of the disease, but because everyone around the anthroposophical group and place got vaccinated, so they did it for social reasons.” [43]
I need to mention that the so-called ‘social reasons’ in the above case were not the same as the ones promoted by pro-vaxx campaigners in the case of the ‘corona pandemic’ which were basically expressed as: You need to sacrifice your individual freedom for the sake of the whole community – that is, for the sake of the so-called ‘herd immunity’! For this would mean to give up one of the main tasks of the age of the consciousness soul, the development of ethical individualism – in the realm of thinking, and in the realm of the bodily autonomy as well. [44]
Shall I quote Steiner or shall I not quote Steiner in regard to vaccination?
Only recently I came across another variation of the use of the argument that Steiner has been vaccinated against smallpox. It was used by Judith von Halle in her second book about the coronavirus pandemic: “The majority of articles and appeals which have circulated since the outbreak of the coronavirus and increasingly during the past months (and the related measures mandated by governments) coming from the ambit of the anthroposophical movement rely upon taking Rudolf Steiner’s quotations and transferring them to contemporary events. That they are transfers is of great importance here.” [45]
Although she is not saying that people should not use Steiner’s quotations, she warns her readers that “in mentioning quotations by Rudolf Steiner one proceeds for the most part selectively, consciously or subconsciously. This is especially noticeable in articles about the vaccination question. When one’s own standpoint seems supported by Rudolf Steiner’s statements apparently critical of vaccination or immunization, the fact that Rudolf Steiner had himself and all his close associates, including children, vaccinated against smallpox, is gladly ignored. Unfortunately, such an approach weakens what might have been essentially justified arguments.” [46]
For she thinks that “spiritual-scientific statements which refer to a specific circumstance can basically not be generalized. Gathering quotations and building thoughts on them cannot replace what anthroposophy wishes to help people have: the independent ability to gain reliable spiritual knowledge from the phenomena that surrounds us.” However, she believes that this cannot be done “by seeking the support of personalities who are far from having an anthroposophical view of humanity or from recognizing the reality of the creating spirit in the material world.” [47] This means that from her perspective one is not allowed to use the results of natural scientific research as a means to illustrate or prove a specific conclusion just because they have materialistic worldview!?
I have already explained in the first part of this article why Steiner’s quotes about pandemics and vaccination cannot be simply transferred without proper understanding of the changing circumstances in the different ages of the development of humanity. Now I want to show that even the seemingly identical argument by Judith von Halle has been interpreted by her in the manner that suits her preferences and opinions – that is, “for the most part selectively, consciously or subconsciously.” [48]
For she presents few cases of inappropriate use of Steiner’s quotes from those members of anthroposophical movement who were opposing Covid vaccination, and none from those members of the anthroposophical movement who were in favour of it. [49] As I have been using Steiner’s quotes in my writings about the various aspects of the corona phenomenon – with an aim to present arguments for opposition to global Covid vaccination campaign – I need to briefly address the issue of the ‘right use’ of Steiner’s quotations.
For me the main reason to quote Steiner is to help readers to understand the topic I am writing about – either on the topic of vaccines, or any other topic. But to do this, I need to first understand properly what I am quoting and think about all possible arguments and facts of life that are seemingly or truly contradicting the explanation in specific Steiner’s quote. But people like Judith von Halle are able to recognise that other people are not doing this, while not being capable to see themselves doing the same!?
For if she had been properly studying numerous explanations of Steiner about the origins of diseases and the methods of genuine healing – such as in my collection of Rudolf Steiner’s Extracts on Disease and Health – then she would be properly guarded against such bizarre conclusions in regard to protection against the SARS-CoV2 virus by means of new mRNA vaccines as is the following one: “We must realize that there is no way out of this situation completely untouched. That is why a ‘spirituel Ratio’ and a ‘spiritual rationality’ are needed. And this does not only mean choosing to be vaccinated in order to comply with Christ’s instruction to be ‘wise’ ‘like serpents’, but at the same time to strive for that moral purity in one’s own soul, for which the image of the dove was chosen, which in Christian iconography appears as God’s messenger, as the Holy Spirit.” [50]
If one compares her high-sounding ‘moral arguments’ with the following explanation of Steiner to the young doctors about the spiritual origin of smallpox, one can arrive to rather different conclusions than she did: “Let us construct quite an idealistic case – the true therapy of smallpox. Real smallpox calls up a very strong inspiration, with intuition as well. And the knowledge that comes to you here, when you are real therapists in this domain, works much more strongly upon you – when it is real knowledge – than does a vaccination; in a different sense it works much more strongly, and in studying the therapy of smallpox as a physician you will bring about a kind of healing in yourself in advance, prophylactically, and will therefore be able, when you understand the connection, to go among smallpox patients without fear, and full of love.
Of course all these things have their other side too. If the knowledge of a medicament is a true imaginative or inspired knowledge, then the healing forces are there; it need not even be one’s own imagination, it may be that of someone else. In itself it has healing forces. Even to have the idea of a medicament has an effect, and it works. But it works only so long as you are without fear. Fear is the opposite pole to love.” [51]
The above described relationship of fear or love to the healing forces has not changed since 1924, the time of Steiner’s lecture. But what has changed is an ongoing increase of the misuse of fear in the expansion of markets for new drugs and vaccines. This is more than noticeable in regard to the role of germs and viruses in the occurrences of epidemics. Therefore, the only logical conclusion is that the pharmaceutical drugs, including vaccines, produced nowadays almost exclusively on the basis of profit interests and promoted through fear of suffering, illness and death, cannot count as medicines arising out of “a true imaginative or inspired knowledge” and consequently they cannot possess true healing forces. [52]
For that very reason only “anthroposophy can give a great stimulus to medicine and medical studies. But you must realize quite clearly that medicine is a very special kind of study, with definite preliminary requirements – a study in which the results of spiritual science simply cannot be ignored. There can be no true medicine without the knowledge that results from spiritual science. The chaotic conditions prevailing today are due to the fact that the current trend of study and knowledge is utterly unsuited to medicine.” [53]
And in our time, when the ‘corona pandemic’ exposed (to those who are able to see) the extraordinary corruption of morality among the public health authorities and the medical professionals, the following advice of Steiner might sound ‘out of this world’ about the structure of new medical training: “A final course would aim at bringing therapy into connection with the development of the true moral faculties of the physician. If such a final course were able to produce these moral qualifications, then diseases would become, for the physician, the opposite of what they are for the patients; they would become something that he loves – not, of course, in order to be enhanced and cultivated so that the patient may remain ill as long as possible – but loved because illness only acquires its meaning when it is healed.” [54]
In our times we have the situation when diseases are being loved by all those who are making extraordinary profits on the account of each illness being seen as a new ‘market opportunity’. The result of such perverted ‘love’ is that the “global pharmaceutical industry continues to grow and was up by a remarkable US$1.4 trillion in 2021. New medications are constantly being developed, approved and marketed, resulting in significant market growth.” [55]
Therefore, if we compare the argument of Judith von Halle in favour of Covid vaccination with the above description of Steiner of the role of moral forces in the education of doctors and in the production and use of medicines, then it is not strange that she is very rarely quoting Steiner. For she prefers to rely on her own super-sensory research and observations of sensory-physical existence, in comparison to those who prefer “to read and agree with viewpoints that present our current situation in a more hopeful light, which perhaps even give the ‘all-clear’, especially when they are sprinkled with all kinds of conclusive quotations from Rudolf Steiner.” For we can easily “get lost in heated debates, in word-wars about ‘the truth’. We use quotes by Rudolf Steiner, not only to support our own view, but we are actually stealing by using them as a kind of weapon with which to attack the ‘enemies’ of our own opinion, as well (as) winning over the insecure or undecided with the help of this moral dishonesty.” [56] But, by doing this, she is two-facedly discrediting all members of the anthroposophical movement who are using Steiner’s quotes with the aim to present his explanations of the true realities of spiritual existence!?
My personal view in regard to the use of Steiner’s quotes is: Anybody can quote Steiner. That is easy. But to quote him in the right manner within a broad picture of the topic one is presenting, and with proper understanding of the quote and familiarity with all possible contra-arguments, and for the right purpose of helping others to grasp a specific part of complex realities of existence – all that is not within everyone’s power. That is not easy, for that demands years or decades of serious study of the living wisdom in the form of anthroposophical spiritual science and overcoming of our own limitations of previous knowledge and personal preferences and prejudices.
And in regard to the issue of vaccination I need to stress that so far I have not yet found any of Steiner’s quotes used by others or any description in my large collection of his extracts that would support the push for vaccination of all humanity against the so-called ‘coronavirus pandemic’. For never before in the known history of humanity was there any pandemic that would impact the whole global population. And if one performs a thorough investigation with the aim to find out why we had in the advent of the ‘coronavirus pandemic’ the first historical case of the global pandemic, then one is forced to come to the realisation that this could never happen if it were not an orchestrated pandemic.
The ordinary people who still possess some common sense logic, the independent (materialistic) scientific, medical and legal investigators, and the genuine spiritual scientific researchers, have come to the same conclusion that there is no need to get vaccinated against an orchestrated pandemic. This conclusion has been arrived at after examination of numerous arguments, but the two outstanding are encapsulated in the following poster:
Therefore any member of the anthroposophical movement who is suggesting that one is contributing something to the wellbeing of humanity – or expressing Christ’s ‘love for thy neighbour’ – by the act of getting a Covid vaccine, is an unwitting victim of the governmental programmes of mind control. [57] In one of them is the following instruction: “Emphasizing the social benefits of vaccination. Be sure to tell people that ‘vaccination not only benefits individuals who receive the vaccine, but also protects others in the community’.” [58]
Therefore any member of the anthroposophical movement who is not helping people to see through the deceptions of this orchestrated pandemic is working in opposition to the demand of the age of the consciousness soul. For “the future depends on the existence of people who act in the right way out of their own resources. In anthroposophy we do not say what is the right thing to do, but show people how they can learn to do the right thing.” This is the fundamental difference between the old guidance by means of force or moral rules and the new path of freedom, on which “every individual is shown how he needs to reach a level of inner development where he’ll find the right way out of his own resources in his relationship with others. That is the mission of anthroposophy in a movement that serves the future.” [59]
For complementary perspectives see:
❖ The Grand Delusion of the Materialistic Approach to Artificial Immunization
❖ Why Is Anthroposophic Medicine Taking an Official Pro-Vaccination Stance?
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