Jaime Padró

Jaime Padró devoted his life to Anthroposophia. It was his ideal to make the working of this being experienceable through inner practice. He wanted to make it possible for everyone to find their individual access to Rudolf Steiner. He studied thinking and perception, seeking to bring both together – as the seed of reality.

Overcoming national egotisms

As a pioneer of the anthroposophical movement in Spain he decided against a secure existence and devoted himself to the spiritual world, to love and to the studies required to understand them. One of his foremost concerns was a spiritually and culturally united Europe and he therefore set out to explore the relationships between the folk souls. In his book on the spiritual evolution of the Spanish culture¹ he wrote, «The Spanish folk spirit wants to give Europe the spiritual fruits of its work. Its future shape will evolve from a long path towards human brotherhood. Europe will accept this gift if it comprehends that, once the national egotisms have been overcome, a time will begin when the spiritual and the practical life go towards the future together.»

All his life, Jaime Padró sought to deepen the theory of knowledge as the key and leitmotif in the search for truth. Based on this solid foundation, Jaime Padró gave many seminars on the theory of the senses, in which he pursued the building up of the resurrection body described by his teacher Friedrich Benesch.

As a master of community building and the reverse cult, Jaime Padró discovered again and again images from the non-sensory world which he passed on to his companions in order to prepare them for the task of bringing the other side of the threshold closer to the earth.

Experiencing the other

His friends often say, «My life is divided in the time before and the time after I met Jaime». A column of light in his soul enhanced his work of nurturing what is good, of nurturing love. This light quality was always visible in his eyes.

A few days before he passed away, he quoted enthusiastically from Rudolf Steiner’s book The Threshold of the Spiritual World (GA 17), «Love is experiencing the other in one’s own soul. […] Love is for us the most important result of our living in the sensory world. If we penetrate the essence of love, of compassion, we will find that it is the expression of the spiritual reality in the sensory world. […] We must also say that love awakens the spirit in the sensory world».

Twenty years ago, Jaime Padró founded the Foundation for the Social Arts (Fundación Círculo de Arte Social). He intended this foundation as a living organism, a school of perception, awareness and meditation. It was his way of working towards conscious community building.