The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Berlin, January 2, 1905

My dear Mr. Wagner!

Enclosed, I am sending you the first E.S. letter to your dear wife. I ask you to tell her everything and to share with her what you think is right. It is in the nature of things that spouses who both belong to the E.S. support and carry each other.

I will send you the official rules for the four disciplines as soon as possible.

I will also write to you soon about the E.S. – Our E.S. members should first know the following:

"The German Theosophical movement is of particular importance. The Germans are the vanguard of the sixth sub-race and will become more and more aware of this mission of theirs. They should do so with all humility. They should immerse themselves in their own idealists.

That is the Master's voice. And in addition: ”Read your great idealists: J.G. Fichte, Jacob Böhme, but especially Angelus Silesius.” I call your special attention to J. G. Fichte's ‘The Destiny of Man.’ It is available in Reclam's Universal Library. It does not contain theosophical teachings; but by reading such works, we form our thought-forms in the sense of the esoteric, and the teachings of the masters thus become more alive to us.

Thank you for the translation of Besant's essay on mysticism. It is very welcome for one of the next “Lucifer” issues.¹

Tomorrow I am going to Stuttgart, then to Munich.

Kind regards

Rudolf Steiner

From January 6 to 9, my address is:
Munich, at the home of Countess Kalckreuth,
Dalbertstrasse 55.

• 1. It was not published in “Lucifer” after all.

Berlin, January 2, 1905

Dear Mrs. Wagner!

A few weeks ago I was only able to briefly inform you that your affiliation to the Esoteric School can be realized. One enters this school as a “shravaka”, which is literally “listener” or “pupil”.

Now it is my duty to speak to you about the nature and significance of the school. You know that behind the entire theosophical movement stand highly developed beings whom we call “masters” or “mahatmas”. These exalted Beings have already traversed the path which the rest of humanity still has to travel. They are now working as the great “Teachers of Wisdom and of the Harmony of Human Feelings”. They are already active today on the higher planes, to which the rest of humanity will organize themselves in the course of the next developmental periods, or “rounds”. On the physical plane they work through their authorized “messengers”, of whom H. P. Blavatsky was the first, that is, for the Theosophical movement. The Masters neither found an outer organization or society nor preside over one. The Theosophical Society was brought into being by its founders (H. P. Blavatsky, Olcott and others) in order to promote the work of the Masters on the physical plane, but these Masters themselves have never influenced the Society itself as such. In its nature and leadership it is the work of people purely on the physical plane.

The situation is different with regard to the “Esoteric School”. It was founded by the Masters themselves and is under the direction of the Masters. All the knowledge and power that flows into the Theosophical Society flows to it through this school. Its members undergo their probationary period and ultimately attain direct communion with the Sublime Ones themselves. How long this process takes depends entirely on the devotees themselves. At first, each person cannot do more than promote the work of the masters with loyal devotion.

The Masters appointed Mrs. H. P. Blavatsky as the first “Head of the School.” The present head is our dear, esteemed Annie Besant.

The Shrâvaka should come to a point where reincarnation and karma are not just theory but certainties of life, and furthermore, where he recognizes the great mission of H.P. Blavatsky through himself. Nothing is imposed on anyone in the school; only self-knowledge is encouraged. Now there are four ways to travel the path of the Shrävaka. You will receive further information about these four ways very soon. I would ask you to go through them carefully with your dear husband and to let me know which of the four ways you intend to choose.

You can already consider yourself part of the school if you begin a meditation exercise on the day determined by the star constellation. I will describe this to you for the time being. It will be modified later.

For the time being, this exercise would consist of the following:

1. Early in the morning, before starting any other daily work, preferably before breakfast, if this is at all compatible with other family and other duties, the following should happen:

I. One should be completely awake, inwardly calm and collected. No external impressions should gain access to our inner being. We should also suppress the memory of all everyday experiences. Once we have established complete “inner silence”, we enter into the elevation to our higher self.

This is done by intensely repeating the following formula to ourselves:

Brighter than the sun
Purer than the snow
Is the Self,
The Spirit in my heart.
That Self am I; I am that Self.

Allow about five minutes for this.

II. This is followed by silent, introspective meditation on a sentence from one of the inspired writings. For this part of the meditation, you should spend four weeks reflecting on the sentence: “Steadfastness stands higher than all success”.

This sentence was given to us by the masters to impress upon us that we should never allow ourselves to be distracted or discouraged by any failure in our actions. A hundred failures should not deter us from doing - for the hundred and first time - what we have recognized as being right.

III. Then, after II. has lasted five minutes, there follows a further five-minute prayer-like devotion to that which is the highest, the most divine in us. It is not a matter of regarding this or that as divine, but of directing all our thoughts, feelings and will to that which we have always regarded as divine. This may be called by different names by different people. It is not important whether we call that to which we give ourselves, God, Christ or the “Master”, but it is the devotion itself.

This completes the three-part morning meditation, which lasts fifteen minutes.

2. In the evening before going to sleep, every student has to look back on their life during the day. The important thing is not to let as many events of the day as possible pass before our soul, but to do so with the most important thing. We ask ourselves: What can we learn from what we have experienced or done? In this way we make our life a lesson. We relate to ourselves in such a way that we learn from each day for each day. - In this way we take the past with us into the future and prepare our immortality. Then we end the day with the thought of dear fellow human beings who need our good thoughts.

It does not matter if the student falls asleep during this evening exercise. Then he will fall asleep with a tendency to develop upwards. And that too is good. Only the morning meditation must be done from beginning to end in a fully alert state. I only ask that you do the evening review in reverse, that is, starting with the events of the evening and then going back to the morning.

You can start with the meditation on one of the days between January 6 and January 20. You cannot start after this day. If you are unable to start during this period, you will not be able to start again until between February 6 and February 18. I cannot tell you today why this is so. But a time will come when it will be quite obvious to you.

I do not need to tell you anything else for the time being, since you have long since organized your life as a theosophist. Wine or other alcoholic beverages prevent development.

When we carry out what I have indicated, the “Exalted Masters” find access to our soul. They can help us and under their blessed influence we grow in strength, knowledge and confidence in life. Our dear Annie Besant emphasizes again and again that the Esoteric School is the “heart of the Theosophical movement”. And so it is. Believe me on this, dearest, most revered Mrs. Wagner: in this school, it is much less about learning and intellectual work and much more about loyal devotion to the Theosophical ideals. Love for spiritual life and, as a result, genuine great love for humanity leads to where we are meant to come. The study is nothing more than a means to an end. We should pursue it as far as we can each. But it is the theosophical attitude that makes the genuine E.S. disciple.

And with that, I welcome you as one of us in the name of the holy masters, at whose feet I place what I can, and against whose will I never want to consciously do anything in my life. Blessed are they, the exalted.

With warmest regards,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Please do not hesitate to ask me anything you need to know about E.S. I will set aside time in the future to answer E.S. messages.

Berlin, May 24, 1905

My dear, esteemed Mr. Wagner!

I have been meaning to write to you and your dear wife for a long time; but now I really will do so shortly. This winter, I have been obliged to contribute what little I can to the consolidation of the German Theosophical movement. Since there is so much to be done, everyone has to suffer. Now I am in the process of finalizing a circular letter to the German Theosophical Society members that I have been preparing for a long time.

For today, just this: I am in complete agreement with your dear wife's participation in the Shrävaka exercises with our dear and revered Annie Besant.

With warmest regards,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Berlin, July 23, 1905

Dear Mr. Wagner!

I am deeply saddened by the tragedy that has befallen you and your dear wife, and it is only today that I am able to express this to you in a letter. My thoughts are often with you. We Theosophists must be able to accept difficult strokes of fate differently than we could before our Theosophical time. Although love and sympathy will never be diminished by the theosophical life, our understanding and strength to bear will grow. We have nothing to lose by theosophy, but we have so much to gain. We would lose if the feelings that are among the most beautiful in life could in the slightest fade. That is why I know what you feel, out of your noble and glorious love. But I also know you as a true, genuine theosophist and I know that the karmic connections are not a mere doctrine for you, but that you live in them. But I would like to exchange a few thoughts with you right now. It is so easy to see everything that fits into our karma as a chain link as a karmic debt. And that is by no means always the case. Just as karma is a truly all-encompassing law, it is also true that karmic events can be the very first to occur in our causal context. The events that affect us are not always compensations for the past; often they are the first items in our life account that will only be balanced in the future. Just as a merchant enters an item on the one side for the first time, so it is with the items in our karmic account book. These thoughts have been crossing my mind in recent weeks whenever I directed my thoughts to your dear home in Lugano, and these thoughts took on that character in my field of vision that shows that thoughts correspond to a reality. You understand me in writing this inner experience – for that is what it is – to you, dear Mr. Wagner. And perhaps you will also accept at your discretion what is a reality for me.

I long to be able to greet you both again. I hope it will be possible soon.

The London Congress festivities, which unfortunately you were unable to attend, are over.¹ It is in the nature of things that such festivities, even when organized by Theosophists, cannot go much beyond appearances. But I do think that those who wanted to could take away nourishment for their minds and hearts. Mrs. Besant, for example, gave lectures that were full of spiritual impulse. First, on the Thursday before the congress, about H.P.B.'s “pupilship” in view of some of the attacks that have recently been made on the great founder of the Theosophical movement. It seems to me, however, to be very important that this spiritually so highly developed woman Besant should so unreservedly point out again and again how H.P.B. was not a human being to her like any other outstanding person who has entered her life, but as she said – the “Bringer of Light” par excellence. She said that spots should not be denied, but that they are like sunspots, and these are only there where the sun is. I felt the inner experiences of my own life in recent times resonating. For I must say that the further I advance myself, the more I get to know the immense power that radiates from H.P.B., and the more I realize that I myself still have a lot to learn in order to even begin to understand the depths of H.P.B.'s work.

Then on Friday was the British Section Convention. Of interest to you is that Bertram Keightley resigned from the post of General Secretary, and that Miss Kate Spink has taken his place. Keightley will first go to India for four months, after which he wants to devote himself to a kind of theosophical movement that will be made possible for him by being relieved of the official duties of the secretary-general.

Furthermore, the opening of the “Art and Arts and Crafts Exhibition” of the congress was during this time. There were some remarkable things in addition to less significant ones. I would just like to mention a few symbolic pictures by a painter named Russell. He attempts to characterize inner soul processes through symbolic colors in the picture (stars, rays, etc., emanating from the figures, symbolic depictions of external natural objects, etc.). Now I can say that I could not see any real astral vision in the pictures, but I was satisfied with the attempt that a talented painter was making.

On Saturday morning, the actual congress was opened with a speech by Mrs. Besant. It was one of those sweeping overviews of the aims and objectives of the Theosophical movement that Mrs. Besant gives on such occasions. You will be interested to know that she mentioned the sculpture of an Italian sculptor, Ezechiel, a “Christ” of whom she said that it corresponds in some respects to the idea that she, as a Theosophist, has of the Christ individuality. You will also be interested to know that on this occasion, Mrs. Besant referred to Richard Wagner, in whose tones the secrets of the astral world could be heard. This was particularly noteworthy to me, because I had given four lectures to the Berlin Theosophists that spring on the spiritual content of Richard Wagner's work.²

Mrs. Besant's opening speech was followed by something extremely diverse. The delegates from all the European theosophical areas now gave their welcoming speeches in their own language. So one could hear short speeches in the following languages: Dutch, Swedish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, Russian, Hungarian, Indian.

The previous evening, Mrs. Besant had given a large-scale, comprehensive speech to several thousand people at Queen's Hall about the “work of 'Theosophy in the world”. She pointed out the necessity of a spiritual deepening in our time, and the work that needs to be done in the most diverse areas of the world. Everything she said was of beautiful generosity and greatness.

On Saturday evening, the theater performance followed. In this regard, one must take into account the goodwill that prevailed. However, it became clear to me that evening in what way the idea of these congresses must be developed if they are to fully fulfill their purpose. Not on what the congress participants will enjoy here for themselves, but above all on the fact that they will find theosophical nourishment for their souls, which they can then take with them to their theosophical home for the benefit and good of those who cannot attend the meetings themselves. The congresses should be a center of spiritual life, from which currents can then go out into the world.

The departmental meetings followed. I am sending you a program under Kreuzband, from which you can at least see the titles of the extensive program that was presented. I would like to mention in particular Mrs. Besant's lecture on Sunday about occult methods of investigation. That was something quite magnificent. She explained in the most beautiful way what the requirements of occult research are in the West, and what precautions, etc., must be observed in such research.

On Monday morning I myself gave a short lecture on the “Occult Basis of Goethe's Work”.

I regret that I cannot write to you in greater detail; but before me lie the last works waiting to be published in Lucifer, numbers 24 and 25. And you can imagine how much work that is. It is necessary that I publish these esoteric matters that Lucifer has brought in recent times. But the responsibility weighs heavily on me. And I have to consider every line, every turn of phrase ten times over in order to reproduce as accurately as possible the spiritual content that is incumbent upon me, and yet which is transmitted to me in a completely different form and language.

Kindest regards to your dear wife.

Ever faithful yours,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Berlin W, Motzstrasse 17

• 1. On July 8, 9 and 10, 1905, the 2nd Congress of the Federation of European Sections of the Theosophical Society took place in London. On July 10, Rudolf Steiner spoke about “The Occult Foundations of Goethe's Work” in “Philosophy and Anthroposophy,” CW 35.
• 2. In Berlin on March 28, May 5, 12, and 19, 1905.

Berlin, June 17, 1905

Dear Miss Stryczek!

I will write to you in detail in the next few days about what you will need for the E.S. exercises in the near future. In the meantime, continue with what I indicated last time.

It was a great pleasure for me to be able to visit our good Dr. Hübbe-Schleiden again last Thursday.

Kind regards,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

P. S. I am sending you the first pages for the German Shrâvakas.¹ For you, they only have the significance that you have everything that comes from here in its entirety. You already know all of this.²

• 1. See the first E.S. circular letter on page 145.
• 2. Paula Stryczek was a member of the E.S.T. in London before 1902.

[Haubinda, Klosterheim. Postmark: Friedrichshall (Sachsen-Meiningen) 8/14/05] Dear Miss Scholl.

Your penultimate letter speaks of your current state of depression.¹ Please do not worry about it. Such experiences are a necessary part of effective esoteric work. The main thing in all of this is that we take ourselves in hand in a clear way. In particular, it is important to always make sure that we do not allow the harmonious connection with our respective surroundings to be compromised. You are a very strong, but also a very receptive nature and nothing prevents you from safely surviving the nevertheless profound transformations that your present exercises are undergoing in your astral and even your etheric body. There are not many German members of the Theosophical Society who follow or can follow the same path, but all those who do have the same experiences as you. And I must regard these experiences as a sign of real progress. Real progress is not possible without the loosening of certain centers in the etheric and astral bodies.

A higher consciousness awakens when centers that were previously regulated by an unconscious organism in their interaction are released from their connection. Then the previously unconscious organism is gradually transformed into a conscious one, and the loosened centers are subordinated to this latter. I would like to make myself understood with a small drawing.

Firm connection of the three centers
Psychic subconscious, which regulates these centers.
Present clear day-consciousness, which in a more passive way preserves the results of the activity of the physical subconscious, which remains unconscious.

This is the present “normal state of man”. Now, through esoteric work,

1. The loosening of center A B C

2. The psychic subconscious is raised to the level of the psychic superconscious, and the results of the bright day consciousness are transformed into things of the past. The situation is then as follows:

bright day consciousness
awakened super-psych consciousness

In DEFCG, new centers are formed, which are regulated by the acquired bright day consciousness through its firmness gained in the sense life. The centers A, B, C now stand isolated, and will later be regulated individually at will by the awakened higher consciousness.

The meditation “I Am, It Thinks, It Feels, It Wants” brings about the loosening indicated. ¹ The centers of thinking, feeling and will separate and connect with the primal forces of the universe, which you can find described in Mrs. Besant's last writing ² as will, wisdom, action, and in this way:

Powers of will
Powers of wisdom
Powers of action

Please consider the assignment correctly: the subjective feeling, for example, corresponds to the objective wisdom in the universe, and the subjective thinking corresponds to the action.

Now, as the relaxation develops, certain incubation states occur that are associated with twilights. And that is what you are feeling now.

We will also have a lot to talk about when you are in Berlin.

Now I ask you to continue the given exercises exactly. If you find that the matter goes better with real breathing, that is very good. Later on it should definitely be combined with it. But usually one practices “spiritual-symbolic” breathing as a preliminary stage beforehand. But you can combine it with real physical breathing right away.

I fully agree with your last letter. I will just tell you in confidence that I know that good Bresch should not be judged in the same way as a healthy person. However, the condition he has developed can develop very slowly and remain hidden from inaccurate observers, who then do not realize that the personality in question has already crossed the line from healthy to unhealthy. You can imagine how this makes the whole matter difficult and worrying for me, because I cannot publicly tell the truth about Bresch, as I see it.

Heartfelt greetings to you and the Künstlers

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

• 1. This letter is not available.
• 1. See “Instructions for Esoteric Training”, GA 245.
• 2. Annie Besant, “A Study in Consciousness”, London and Benares 1904

Part of the otherwise unknown letter summarizing the content of the esoteric lecture given in Berlin on the same day

Berlin, October 4, 1905

AUM
“Seek the Way"
“Seek the way in inner contemplation“
“Seek the way by boldly stepping out of yourself” ¹

The last two sentences only appear to contradict each other. In truth, they express two extraordinarily correct facts.

Inner contemplation is the first half of a journey. At first, at his present stage of development, the human being lives in the sense perceptions of the outer world. Even when he processes these sense impressions with his intellect and reason, he still remains “outside”.

When he frees himself from the impressions of the senses and withdraws into himself, the power of thinking remains. This thinking is then emptied of its outer content. This is the “inner contemplation”. But precisely because thinking is “emptied”, new content can now flow into it from within.

And this content is of a spiritual nature, just as the previous content was of a sensual nature. But it is precisely because of this that the human being now steps out of himself again. He steps out of the sphere of the lower self into the “spiritual outside world”. And this is indicated by the sentence: “Seek the way by boldly stepping out of yourself”.

Now the mystic connects all three sentences with the syllable AUM. The A is first of all the holding on to the state in which man always finds himself at the present stage of his evolution.

The U is the symbol of inner contemplation and meditation, and the M is the stepping out into the spiritual outer world.

• 1. From the guiding thoughts in “Light on the Path”.

Berlin W 30, Motzstrasse 17

December 31, 1905

Dear Miss Stryczek!

In the sad matter that has befallen us, let me say the following to you.¹

When a person we love passes over to the other world, it is especially important that we send our thoughts and feelings to them without letting the idea arise that we want them back. The latter makes it more difficult for the deceased to exist in the sphere into which they have entered. It is not the suffering we have, but the love we give him, that we should send to his worlds. Do not misunderstand me. We should not become hard or indifferent. But it should be possible for us to look at the dead with the thought, “My love accompany you! You are surrounded by it.” According to my knowledge, such a feeling is a kind of wing-dress that carries the dead upwards; while the feelings of many mourners, such as, “Oh, if you were still with us,” become an obstacle to him. So that would be a general indication of how we have to adjust ourselves with our feelings in such a case.

In particular, I may now advise you the following. I will write down for you the thoughts that I am not yet able to express in quite good German; but they are based on ancient occult tradition in such cases. Three times a day, once of which should be immediately in the evening before going to sleep, you should become completely still within yourself, so that you take the thoughts themselves with you into the spiritual world. It is best to fall asleep with the thoughts:

My love be to the covers
That now surround you
Cooling all warmth,
Warming all cold
Sacrificially interwoven!
Live, dear-carried,
Light-bestowed upward!

It is important that you have the right feelings when you hear the words “warmth” and “coldness.” We are not talking about physical warmth and coldness, but rather emotional warmth and coldness, although it is not easy for a person in a physical body to imagine what these qualities mean for the discarnate. The latter must first realize that the astral substance still clinging to him is active, but without the use of physical tools. Much of what man strives for here on earth is given to him through his physical tools. Now these are not there. This lack of physical organs resembles – but only resembles – the feeling of burning thirst transferred to the soul. These are the strong 'sensations of heat' after disembodiment. And it is the same with our will, which longs to be active. It is accustomed to using physical organs and no longer has them. This “deprivation” is equivalent to a feeling of mental coldness. It is precisely these feelings that the living can help with. For these feelings are not merely the result of the individual's life, but are connected with the mysteries of incarnation. And it is therefore possible to help the disembodied person.

Now for something else I would ask of you. Let the above sentences be preceded by a few thoughts to our Mr. Wagner, along the following lines: “Your [the wife's] faithful love has surrounded you so far; it continues to surround you unchanged; it will sustain you as a power of the spirit, as it has illuminated you in visible presence so far.”

I wanted to write all this to you today. At the moment I have so much work to do on the physical plane that I cannot tell you anything specific, except for the general above, because physical work obscures spiritual experience. Of course, you are free to share my lines with anyone you think fit. I would like many hearts to turn to the dear personality.

Give the warmest greetings to the dear doctor and receive the same for yourself from your

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

• 1. It was the death of Anna Wagner, † 30. 12. 1905, the wife of Günther Wagner.

Berlin, January 12, 1906

Dearest Dr. Steiner!

The right way to begin meditation is as follows:

In the morning, when no other impressions have yet passed through the soul – best of all immediately after awakening – one seeks to establish complete calm in the soul. Complete distraction of attention from all external impressions and also from all memory images that relate to everyday life.

From this stilled soul, one then lets the following sentences arise, so that the very core is filled with them (3-5 minutes):

"In the pure rays of light
The divinity of the world shines
In the pure love for all beings
the divinity of my soul
I rest in the divinity of the world
I will find myself
in the divinity of the world.

It is important that these sentences are presented quite literally.

Then follows (through another 3-5 minutes)
in the first month: the first sentence in “Light on the Path”
in the second month: the second sentence in “Light on the Path”
in the second month: the third sentence in “Light on the Path”
in the second month: the fourth sentence in “Light on the Path”

Then (for another 3-5 minutes) devotion to one's divine ideal, followed by an intense sense of the value of the virtue one wants to instill.

In the evening: review of the day's deeds and experiences. Retrospective, from evening to morning. Without regret, merely with the tendency to learn from life. If you fall asleep, it does not matter. It is not a matter of being complete, but of developing the attitude of learning from life.

Only in the morning during meditation must there be complete wakefulness.

With warm greetings

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

March 7, 1906

Dear Ms. Minsloff!

Regarding your own exercises, I need only tell you to continue with them as we have discussed them. If you do this, you will develop the beautiful powers within you, and this is what corresponds entirely to your nature. Success will not fail to come to you. We cannot make any changes to the exercises at this stage, as this would disrupt your further progress in the spiritual world. You are so inclined that you will make rapid progress by keeping to the same exercises, while many others have to progress through changes. The best spiritual beings are at your side to protect you. Your soul is destined to bring much help to humanity. You are so imbued with a true feeling for the spiritual world that I no longer need to speak to you about it myself, but only to tell you that I will always ask the “Venerable Masters” to protect you.

Now, Miss von Sivers tells me about the lady who has turned to you. With good and energetic treatment, the same can be helped. But it is not easy in her condition, especially now that she is expecting a child. Nevertheless, I would advise you to carry out a treatment with her if possible. This treatment also has an effect on the development of the child; but this influence will be less severe than if the lady remains without any psychic treatment at all.

The following is now advised.

You should let the lady come to you. Initially, for three days in a row at a specific time. Half an hour before she comes to you, reflect in the following specific way. First, think of your feet, as if your whole self were in the sole of your foot. Then draw the feeling that you get in the sole of your foot up through your whole body to your heart, always thinking “I” as you do so. Then think of your fingertips and say, as if you wanted to send the thought into your fingertips: “I want to ward off anything harmful with this.”

Then the lady can come to you. Now say the following to her:

Then the lady must repeat the thought of the feet to the heart at least once a day, without you, while standing.

When this has been done for three days, everything should remain the same, except that the thought of the feet is replaced by the thought of the legs from heel to knee for a further three days,

then three days from knee to hip,
then three days thinking of the body from the middle to the navel,
then three days thinking of the body from the navel to the heart,
then three days from heart to shoulders,
then three days thinking of the upper arms
three days thinking of the lower arms
three days thinking of the hands to the fingertips.

If this is done energetically, the lady will be reassured after a while, but this is not yet the case, so she must repeat the whole thing.

Each time the matter is over, the lady must say:

"In the pure rays of light
the divinity of the world shines;
in the pure love for all beings,
the divinity of my soul shines;
I rest in the divinity of the world
I shall find myself
in the divinity of the world.

She should repeat this to herself seven times a day after the other thing.

When you have made the strokes on the back and said the words given above, “the hostile powers disappear”, then say the name (first names) of the lady very firmly and stroke her back again from bottom to top with both hands.

Goodbye, and warmest regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner
W 30, Motzstrasse 17, Berlin