Rudolf Steiner's Insights on Vaccination (read/download PDF)

Excerpt: The soul will be abolished through medication. Based on such a “healthy view,” people will invent a vaccine by means of which the organism is so affected—to be administered as early in youth as possible, potentially immediately at birth—that the human body becomes incapable of the thought: "There exists
a soul and a spirit." This is how decisively the two world-view streams will confront each other. The one will have to think about how concepts and ideas are to be formed, so that they can cope with actual reality, the reality of the spirit and the soul. The others, the successors of today’s materialists, will look for a vaccine that will make the body “healthy”, that is, make it
so that this body, by its constitution, will no longer talk of such silly things as soul and spirit, but will talk in a “healthy” way only of the forces that live in machines and chemistry, the forces that form planets and stars out of cosmic nebulae. This will be brought about by a physical procedure. The materialistic physicians will be given the task of expelling the souls from mankind...

And such things were going on behind the scenes of the outer events of our decades. The intention was to put into the hands of a certain group of people, first of all, the secret: how to control the masses, which I have indicated earlier. This is the secret, how specifically such masses as carelittle about external affairs, but who have a spiritual disposition, who would otherwise be suitable to serve as a preparation for the sixth post-Atlantean period, how this mass of people is to be mastered to an extensive degree,and how the gift to control them is to be brought into the hands of a few individual people.The other is something that will play a great role in the future: to get hold of secrets, to get hold of the means to direct conditions that are connected with disease processes, and also those connected to the reproductive process, in a certain direction. Such things as I have already mentioned to some friends. The materialistic age strives towards this from certain circles: to paralyze all spiritual development of mankind; to make it impossible. To make people—simply by their temperaments, by their character—reject everything spiritual, to regard it as foolishness. Such a current - it is already noticeable among individual people today will deepen more and more. The longing will arise, so that the public opinion will become: The spiritual, the spiritual is foolishness, is madness!– By this means they will try to achieve the following: To create a vaccine to inoculate against spirituality. Just as science has come up with vaccines to protect against diseases, they will now develop specific inoculants that will influence the human body in such a way that it does not give a home to the spiritual inclinations of the soul. People will be inoculated against the disposition for spiritual ideas. At least this is what one will try to do: they will research inoculants that will cause people to lose the urge for a spiritual
life already in childhood.