Rudolph Steiner's Life and Teachings

The author of this article also recalled an unsettling botany class with a teacher named Hirtha Carl. During one day's main lesson, she veered off topic to warn us to never receive blood transfusions from members of other races. Like Madame Blavatsky, Steiner believed that Native Americans were, in his words, dying out of their own nature. He believed they were one of several lower races of humans. Most Aboriginal and non-white races fell into this category.