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Wisdom of Man, of the Soul, and of the Spirit: Preface

Along with this step, Rudolf Steiner, as whose executive it had been the writer's privilege to serve, transferred the leadership of the Society to the Vorstand officiating in Germany. This arrangement lasted until Christmas, 1923, when he founded the Society anew under the name of the General Anthroposophical Society, with its seat at the Goetheanum in Switzerland, and he undertook the leadership himself, with a Vorstand recruited in Dornach. By Christmas, 1930, the fourth seven-year cycle had run its course. Rudolf Steiner had departed this earth shortly after that memorable refoundation, over which he was destined to preside but one year.
263. Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924: Letter from Edith Maryon 31 Jul 1919,

The book could be published in October and the best time is from 1 October to Christmas, they say. A small committee has now been formed in England to work on the social question, and Mr.
Community Life, Inner Development, Sexuality and the Spiritual Teacher: About This Edition

The crisis that came to a head in the summer of 1915 was already looming at Christmas of 1914 and lasted through the fall of 1915. Thus, many if not all of the lectures given in Dornach in 1915 relate to it in some way.
How Can Humanity Find the Christ Again?: Foreword
Translated by Alan P. Shepherd, Dorothy S. Osmond

The eight lectures published here in a new translation (the last two for the first time) were given during the Christmas season 1918/19 to members of the Anthroposophical Society in Switzerland. Some of the illustrative material was drawn from events of that time at the close of World War I.
270. Esoteric Instructions: Second Lesson 22 Feb 1924, Dornach
Translated by John Riedel

And perhaps it might not be totally unimportant if a great number of our friends would place before their souls something actually happening at this time. The Christmas Conference should have initiated real esotericism in the larger stream of the anthroposophical way of looking at the world, as it will be carried by the Anthroposophical Society in the future, all-inclusive. How often, and many questions could similarly be entertained, how often have I just forgotten what I held in glorious utter certainty during the Christmas Conference, how often have I just forgotten it, and how often have I thus maintained my thoughts and my realizations in the manner formerly present, as if the Anthroposophical Society were continuing as it had before Christmas.
Have I seen, in all acts pertaining to Anthroposophy, have I really seen that with Christmas a new phase of the Anthroposophical Society has begun? Entertaining these questions right away as questions concerning awareness is of very special significance.
236. Karmic Relationships II: The Esoteric Trend in the Anthroposophical Movement 12 Apr 1924, Dornach
Translated by George Adams, Mabel Cotterell, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond

Again and again it must be emphasised that a new trend has come into the Anthroposophical Movement since the Christmas Foundation Meeting at Dornach. Of this I should now like to say a few introductory words.—You know, my dear friends, that since the year 1918 there have been all manner of undertakings within the Anthroposophical Society.
You see, my dear friends, that is something quite different from what the position would have been if already at that time (as at our Christmas Foundation Meeting) I had said that I would undertake the leadership of the Society. For the Anthroposophical Society, if led by me, must naturally be an altogether different thing than if led by someone else.
Through the whole tenor of the Anthroposophical Movement as it has been since Christmas last, this will perhaps be realised increasingly, even by our members. Henceforth the Anthroposophical Movement will take this attitude: It will no longer pay heed to anything other than what the spiritual world itself requires of it.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 165. Letter to Rudolf Steiner 23 Nov 1923, Dornach

Guenther Wachsmuth (1893-1963), member since January 1920, resident in Dornach since 1921. 1922-1923 on the inner working committee at the Goetheanum, since Christmas 1923 on the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society as secretary and treasurer, leader of the natural science section.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 186. Letter to Marie Steiner in Berlin 13 Dec 1923, Dornach

There will be an almost overwhelming rush here at Christmas. The book shed has been started; and everything possible must be done to get it ready in time.
37. Writings on the History of the Anthroposophical Movement and Society 1902–1925: About the Leadership of this Newsletter and the Members' Share in It 27 Jan 1924,

If the members see the newsletter in this way, the executive council of the Anthroposophical Society can make it what it should be according to the intentions of the Christmas Conference.
173b. The Karma of Untruthfulness I: LectureI X 25 Dec 1916, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis

We can only completely understand what still wants to express itself in the Christmas, Easter and Whitsun Mysteries if we do not shy away from linking these things with the thinking and feeling and experience of mankind gradually developing during the course of evolution.
It is a good thing on occasions such as the Christmas festival to say to oneself: Spiritual impulses, both good and evil, play into the evolution of our world.
But the feeling one really wants to inspire, especially now in connection with the Christmas Mystery, is that of participation in the Anthrosophical Movement, the feeling of living within something that is above mere external maya.

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