THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

prefers to identify with Shlomo Carlebach, Zeller expresses an affinity for Schachter-
Shalomi's teaching.
6e. Waldorf schools/Anthroposophy: Jerusalem.
There are 600 Waldorf schools in 32 different countries, including Israel. All are dedicated to
teaching the philosophies of Rudolf Steiner, a German occultist who joined the Theosophical
Society and then broke away to form a rival "spiritual science" which he named
"Anthroposophy". In the U.S., a supervisory association monitors all 125 American Waldorf
schools to ensure that they all "stay true to the teachings of Steiner." His worldview (received
through channeling) is a blend of theosophy, gnosticism, holistic earth-worship, and racism.
Concerning the last, Waldorf schools include the study of "racial ethnography", where
children learn from Steiner that the Nordic and Aryan races are the "best section of mankind...
skillful and intelligent," while dark-skinned races have large bodies and small,
underdeveloped souls and "are all stupid". ("Special Ed?" _The Daily Northwestern_, Oct.17,
1997) Black Africans "have the peculiarity to suck off light and warmth from spaces around
them" which causes their skin to turn black from the heat. All that absorbed energy results in
the "fact" that "the negro has strong urges... as if he is boiled up from the sun itself..."
(translated for me by German researcher Robert Jesolowitz from a 1923 Steiner speech in
Dornau, Switzerland) During this course, children at the Waldorf school in Evanston, Illinois
practice drawing blond children walking in bright sunlight; black children ("moon people")
walk in the weak light of the moon, and black souls are drawn as babies. ("Special Ed")
Steiner opposed interracial marriage, since "mixing of blood causes the force of clear vision
to die" in the higher species of humanity. (translated from German by Swedish researcher
Fredrik Bendz, unreferenced)
Waldorf schools are coming under attack in the U.S., Holland and Germany for their racist
and occultic orientation, as well as for deception concerning their religious nature. (See "Are
Waldorf Schools 'Non-Sectarian'?", _Free Inquiry_, Spring 1994) Waldorf schools are also
haunted by more than a little superstition: modern technology is so evil that pupils may not
visit science museums, and computers are an "incarnation of the evil spirit Ahriman". (David
B. Black, _The Computer and the Incarnation of Ahriman_, p.35) This evil deity has its
origins in Zoroastrianism, an esoteric religion dating from the 6th c. BCE which is enjoying a
comeback in NA circles. [One could make a case for Steiner adopting more than just Ahriman
from that ancient Persian religion; Zoroaster was also decidedly hostile to the G-d of the
Torah - see the Nazism section for details, and for the common ground between Theosophy
and Nazism.]
Concerning the Jewish people in particular, Anthroposophists in Germany quote Steiner in
singling out the Jews as the group most clearly demonstrating the undesirable
"Gruppenseelenhafte" or "Group Soul Qualities" (Steiner disciple Irene Diet in _Das
Goetheanum_, Nr.20, May 17, 1998) A broadcast by the German news program "Report
Mainz" (Feb. 28, 2000) revealed that antisemitic and racist teachings are widely promoted in
today's Waldorf schools, to which the President of the Zentralrat (Central Council of Jews in
Germany), Paul Spiegel, replied: "I have been receiving [such reports] for the past one and a
half years," and added that until now parents were afraid to identify themselves. The
information which left Spiegel "shocked" is currently being documented. ("Wortwechsel",
Germany's Swedwestfernsehen, Mar. 19, 2000)
A Waldorf school in Jerusalem also got some bad press when it briefly came under attack a
few years ago. But judging from media reports, the only issue investigated was whether it was