tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post7103562067046007822..comments2023-12-15T12:31:38.281-08:00Comments on Spiritual Science is Practical: Rudolf Steiner on AlcoholUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-91635342462931508912019-02-15T23:28:17.895-08:002019-02-15T23:28:17.895-08:00Very good article. I will be facing many of these ...Very good article. I will be facing many of these issues as well..Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-86597090418161420632018-11-21T05:07:48.419-08:002018-11-21T05:07:48.419-08:00We're a group of volunteers and opening a new ...We're a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community.<br />Your site provided us with valuable info to work on. You have performed a formidable task and our entire community shall be thankful too you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-8356474321066984252018-08-01T05:16:59.127-07:002018-08-01T05:16:59.127-07:00Thanks for finally talking about >"Rudolf ...Thanks for finally talking about >"Rudolf Steiner on Alcohol" <Loved it!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-33926308268261466542017-11-10T22:40:43.734-08:002017-11-10T22:40:43.734-08:00"What we eat has a tremendous influence on th..."What we eat has a tremendous influence on the heart. For example, if we drink alcohol this passes unchanged into our blood and can be measured exactly. This alcohol circulates through our entire body as a foreign substance. This substance imposes something on the heart. Red wine for instance has the effect of opening the capillaries to the head. Thus more blood comes to the head so that it, in a minor way, is illuminated. People have more life in their head, so they get a lot of ideas and have warm feelings. If they pat you on the shoulder at such a time, you do not take it seriously, because you know that it is simply that these capillaries have been opened. On others, it has other effects; for instance, Goethe liked a little red wine and wrote some very good poetry when he had had it."<br />-Ehrenfried Pfeiffer<br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-47143372679985266902017-03-02T12:53:21.425-08:002017-03-02T12:53:21.425-08:00You are very thorough, thanks for collating all th...You are very thorough, thanks for collating all this information together and posting them in a factual, non-offending way (at least for me it reads like that!) I appreciate it.MartinIstihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18201043560203555056noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-23284039116295326172016-11-03T15:37:03.129-07:002016-11-03T15:37:03.129-07:00Alcohol only arose after the Atlantean epoch to he...Alcohol only arose after the Atlantean epoch to help men to become individualized. It closes man off from his higher capacities and encloses him in himself.<br /><br />But now all civilized people have reached that stage so that alcohol is an unnecessary evil today. Through its use one loses the ability to get along with others and to understand them. Alcohol is especially harmful for esoterics since its use changes all developed higher forces into forces of the personal ego, repeatedly locks it into itself.<br /><br />By consuming alcohol one prepares a fertile soil for hosts of spiritual beings, just as a dirty room gets filled with flies.<br /><br />Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 266 – From the Contents of Esoteric Classes:Esoteric Lesson – Stuttgart, 8-13-1908<br /><br /><br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-54708950737218795402015-02-06T21:56:16.853-08:002015-02-06T21:56:16.853-08:00https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/2015/02/...https://rudolfsteinerquotes.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/alcohol-is-an-unnecessary-evil-today-2/<br />Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29469552.post-34820210038426032972013-07-31T00:43:17.438-07:002013-07-31T00:43:17.438-07:00 The student must not feel duty to be an oppressiv... The student must not feel duty to be an oppressive power to which he unwillingly submits, but rather something which he performs out of love. His task is to develop a free soul that maintains equilibrium between body and spirit, and he must perfect himself in this way to the extent of being free to abandon himself to the functions of the senses, for these should be so purified that they lose the power to drag him down to their level. He must no longer require to curb his passions, in as much as they of their own accord follow the good. So long as self-chastisement is necessary, no one can pass a certain stage of esoteric development; for a virtue practiced under constraint if futile. If there is any lust remaining, it interferes with esoteric development, however great the effort made not to humor it. Nor does it matter whether this desire proceeds from the soul or the body. For example, if a certain stimulant be avoided for the purpose of self-purification, this deprivation will only prove helpful if the body suffers no harm from it. Should the contrary to be the case, this proves that the body craves the stimulant, and that abstinence from it is of no value. In this case it may actually be a question of renouncing the ideal to be attained, until more favorable physical conditions, perhaps in another life, shall be forthcoming. A wise renunciation may be a far greater achievement than the struggle for something which, under given conditions, remains unattainable. Indeed, a renunciation of this kind contributes more toward development than the opposite course. <br />http://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA010/English/AP1947/GA010_c06.htmlMichaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.com