Anthroposophy has manifold roots in natural science. Rudolf Steiner
never tired of saying that the development of scientific awareness
had given people the possibility of freedom, that the way to
cognizing the spiritual world is based on the natural scientific
attitude, and that certainty of such knowledge is comparable to the
certainty found in mathematics and natural science. Especially
noteworthy is Steiner's comments on the importance of how
experiments should be done-first, that scientists should adopt the
attitude that their workbench is an altar, and second, that
scientists should seek the cooperation of elemental beings. Steiner
was concerned that people do new experiments because of the many
new views and educational possibilities that can arise.
Consequently, in 1920, a special institute was established with
departments for physics and biology in Stuttgart, financed by the
scanty means of the joint-stock company, Der kommende Tag
(literally, "the coming day"). The purpose of the institute were
described by Steiner: "What we lack is not the empirical material,
but the gathering of possibilities, which are also possibilities of
explaining one phenomenon through another phenomenon. Therefore, in
our research institute, we will no longer do experiments using the
old methods, for there really is an excess of empirical material
available." Though the institute eventually closed, owing to
financial difficulties, in 1926 on the initiative of Guenther
Wachsmuth, Paul Eugen Schiller took most of the materials to
Dornach. There, he set up a simple physics laboratory where he
worked for several years, working mainly on Steiner's indications
about the "sensitive flame." Drawn from Schiller's notebooks, this
important volume describes natural scientific research by
scientists working at the Goetheanum and following suggestions from
Rudolf Steiner, leading, for example, to research on gases at low
temperatures and high vacuum. Steiner told them, "You will tend to
produce conditions at the Sun's center, where matter is annihilated
and exists in a negative state; similarly with space. Spectrum
analysis was used in these experiments, but for 'true' results, the
spectroscope would need to be modified." On electricity, Steiner
told them," We do not know electricity, except by its effects....
In origin, it is an astral force." The Schiller File is an
important resource for those who wish to better understand how to
approach and practice natural science from the perspective of
spiritual science. Includes an extensive index. The Schiller File
is a translation of Beitrage zur Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe
Veroffentlichungen aus dem Archiv der Rudolf
Steiner-Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach, Switzerland.
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