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11 minVesna Forštnerič Lesjak
Warmth Course / Occult Science II
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A contribution by Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak and Matthias Rang
The good is not found as mere intellectual insight, but through inner contemplation in the will and in the experience of “warmth”. For scientists, the question therefore arises as to how they can reach the moral impulses behind natural phenomena. As a path, Steiner’s GA 134 is named, in which a step-by-step crossing of the sense world towards the “world of wisdom” is described. This is then illustrated with Strader from the Mystery Dramas: he first recognises the Ahrimanic logic in thinking and exposes its falsity for the earthly world. Then, in feeling, he succeeds in taking a decisive step by developing soul warmth within the Ahrimanic icy cold and feeling compassion for Ahriman. Liberation in the will – as deed – however fails to occur, and is described as something that can only become real in community.
A contribution by Vesna Forštnerič Lesjak and Matthias Rang for the 2025 Autumn Conference of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum.
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Publication: 22 May 2026
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Vesna Forštnerič LesjakVesna Forštnerič Lesjak is a pharmacist and farmer and has been co-leader of the Natural Science Section at the Goetheanum since 2023. She mentors students in Goethean botany and conducts research on Goethean plant knowledge for pharmacy and medicine. In Slovenia she has run a company producing food supplements and cosmetics since 2013, founded the association «Sapientia» and a section for anthroposophic pharmacy and medicine, and since 2019 has managed a Demeter-certified family farm.
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Matthias RangMatthias Rang, born in 1973 in Freiburg im Breisgau, studied physics and physics education in Freiburg and Berlin and received his PhD from the University of Wuppertal in 2015 on phenomenological approaches to complementary spectra. He has been a researcher at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum since 2007 and co-leader of the Natural Science Section since 2020. His research focuses on complementary phenomena in optics and the relationship between Goethe's theory of colour and Newton's optics.
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- Wärme – Keim der Verbindung und der Verwandlung, Episode 7 of 8
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