A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living.

The loss of the Goetheanum affected Steiner's health seriously. Early spiritual experiences
When he was nine years old Steiner thought he saw the spirit of an aunt who had died in a far-off town asking him to help her; at the time of the vision neither he nor his family knew of the woman's death. Steiner continued speaking regularly to the members of the Theosophical Society becoming the head of its newly constituted German section in 1902 without ever formally joining the society.

” A consistent thread that runs from his earliest philosophical phase through his later spiritual orientation is the goal of demonstrating that there are no essential limits to human knowledge. In the third phase of his work beginning after World War I Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors including Waldorf education biodynamic agriculture and anthroposophical medicine. Just as the eye perceives colours and the ear sounds so thinking perceives ideas.