Continuing my commentary on the 25th paragraph of Peter Staudenmaier's Anthroposophy and Ecofascism.
Rudolf Steiner even recommended studying Haeckel as an exercise and prerequisite for seeking spiritual vision:
If you are touched by the Rosicrucian principle as here intended, study the system of Haeckel, with all its materialism; study it, and at the same time permeate yourselves with the methods of cognition indicated in Knowledge of Higher Worlds and its Attainment . Take what you learn in Haeckel's Anthropogenesis: on the Ancestors of Man . In that form it may very likely repel you. Learn it nevertheless; learn all that can be learned about it by outer Natural Science, and carry it towards the Gods; then you will get what is related about evolution in my Occult Science .(Preface to his book Theosophy )
So Steiner valued Haeckel's work in a number of contexts, and Haeckel's efforts in general, but by no means subscribed to all of Haeckel's views.
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