‘The karma behind the Anthroposophical community’s failure to realise a threefold society’

A talk by Gavin Tang

According to Rudolf Steiner himself, it was his specific spiritual task to bring the knowledge of karma and reincarnation to the world. All other major spiritual undertakings of his were things he picked up because others (other initiates) had failed to do so. Among such undertakings was the establishment of a threefold society. In fact the nature of this task is more suited to a Platonist/Arthurian stream than the Aristotlean/Grail stream that Steiner was part of. What is it in the Platonist approach that makes it more suited to bring a threefold society to realisation?