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276 STRIPPING THE GURUS
modern science, for science and logical thought can ... never
say the final word as to what is possible (Steiner, 1963).
Having thus disposed of physics in his pursuit of a denser,
thinner and softer metaphysics, Steiner (1963) continued:
[T]he human body had been provided with an eye that now
no longer exists, but we have a reminder of this erstwhile
condition in the myth of the One-Eyed Cyclops.
Nor was that the only discrepancy to be found between our
known world and the bodies of yore:
The forms of [the first] animals would, in the present day,
strike us as fabulous monsters, for their bodies (and this
must be carefully kept in mind) were of the nature of air....
Another group of physical beings had bodies which consisted
of air-ether, light-ether and water, and these were
plant-like beings....
“If I could talk to the plantimals....” Or be one:
[M]an lived as a plant being in the Sun itself (Steiner, 1959).
Steiner further claimed of Lemurian women:
Everything was animated for them and showed itself to them
in soul powers and apparitions.... That which impelled them
to their reaction were “inner voices,” or what plants, animals,
stones, wind and clouds, the whispering of the trees,
and so on, told them....
If with his consciousness man could raise himself into
[the] supersensible world, he would be able to greet the “ant
or bee spirit” there in full consciousness as his sister being.
The seer can actually do this.
It is, of course, only a small step from “ant and bee spirits” to
volcano and cloud spirits, etc.
Rudolf himself was the head of the German branch of the Theosophical
Society until being expelled from that in 1913 for “illegal”
(according to the rules of the Society) activities. From that split, he
founded his own Anthroposophical Society, beginning with fiftyfive
ex-members of the TS, from which the Waldorf phenomenon in
general has grown.