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259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Rudolf Steiner officially Announces his Proposal for the Composition of the Executive Council 22 Dec 1923, Dornach

But now, as I have already shown some friends in The Hague,* I understand the board of directorship in such a way that it is not only on paper, but that it stands in all responsibility on the board and represents the association.
On Monday I will also make a proposal for a constitution — I hope the statutes will be printed by then — which, based on the current conditions, is to underlie the constitution of the Society. And now, my dear friends, I have said what I wanted to say at the starting point of our Christmas Conference here.
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Overview of the Year 1923

It was a time of inflation, hostile occupations, repeated taxes of all kinds under changing designations, party struggles and the associated malicious persecution of dissenters. Dr.
During the delegates' meeting, he was able to say many things not yet expressed about the weaving of language rooted in the universe during a eurythmy performance, since he could count on the anthroposophists as an audience that had the necessary prerequisites for understanding more intimate spiritual nuances. It is preserved under the title 'The Imaginative Revelation of Language' [in GA 277].
This lecture has also been preserved and will soon be published under the title: “The Druid Priest's Solar Initiation and his Knowledge of the Moon Beings” [in GA 228].
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Editor's Preface

A few years later (1947), she published further protocol records of sessions with Rudolf Steiner in 1923 under the title: Study material from the sessions of the Stuttgart Circle of Thirty, 1923. In her preliminary remarks, she states: “This working material, compiled from imperfect transcripts and notes, may be supplemented and completed in the future.”
Stein, Rudolf Steiner expressed the following views on the general question of how documents for understanding history are to be weighted in a conference with the teachers of the Waldorf School in Stuttgart on March 30, 1923 (in CW 300/3): “[...]
And in connection with the serious problems of 1923, he said at the meeting in Stuttgart on February 28, 1923 (in this volume): “When I negotiate with someone, be it a group or an individual coming on behalf of a group, at first they understand nothing of what I say... but there is an infinitely great activity, an infinitely good will. Everything that has not been understood will be done immediately!
259. The Fateful Year of 1923: Preliminary Remarks by the Editor

The endless difficulties associated with the various machinations of political and social groups and the ever-increasing inflation undermined all efforts at reform. The collapse of economic life threatened to suffocate spiritual life. The grinding nature of this struggle was reflected in the souls and paralyzed the energies.
However, it was only many years later that he undertook the task of transcribing them into plain text with the help of Dr. Erich Gabert. In his preliminary remarks, dated “Stuttgart, April 10, 1935,” Gabert writes: "Because the shorthand was partly difficult to read after such a long time, the text sometimes remains uncertain.
What the other participants said at the meetings has only been included to the extent that it was deemed necessary for an understanding of Dr. Steiner's words. Dr. Steiner's words themselves are given as completely as they appeared in the shorthand."
260. The Christmas Conference : Introduction to the Eurythmy Performance 23 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

But especially since we are gathering once more for an anthroposophical undertaking I should like to introduce this performance with a few words. In the first instance eurythmy is that art which has originated entirely from the soil of Anthroposophy.
Therefore it is as a matter of course that a special art has arisen out of the spiritual life of the Anthroposophical Movement. It is necessary to understand that art must be born out of the super-sensible realm through the mediation of the human being.
Thus an element which belongs to Inspiration becomes an element belonging to Imagination. Therefore an understanding of eurythmy is closely linked with discovering through eurythmy how Intuition, Inspiration and Imagination are related.
260. The Christmas Conference : Rudolf Steiner's Opening Lecture and Reading of the Statutes 24 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

And we allow ourselves to hope that this is an appeal which can be rightly understood. My dear friends, call to mind the manner in which the Anthroposophical Movement came into being.
In this Goetheanum work of this kind and of that kind is undertaken. In this Goetheanum endeavours are made to promote human evolution in this way or in that way.
(Lively applause) Through her work—and especially through her understanding of her work—she has shown that in this specialized field she can assert the effectiveness of Anthroposophy in the right way.
260. The Christmas Conference : The Laying the Foundation Stone for the Anthroposophical Society 25 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

When now, at this moment, we unite these three forces, the forces of the heights, the forces of the circumference, the forces of the depths, in a substance that gives form, then in the understanding of our soul we can bring face to face the universal dodecahedron with the human dodecahedron.
We plant it, my dear friends, at a moment when human memory that truly understands the universe looks back to the point in human evolution, at the turning point of time, when out of the darkness of night and out of the darkness of human moral feeling, shooting like light from heaven, was born the divine being who had become the Christ, the spirit being who had entered into humankind.
Let there be prayed from the depths What in the heights will be granted, And when it is rightly understood How it rings forth from Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi, When from the depths is prayed What in the heights can be answered, Then speaks it through the world: Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus.
260. The Christmas Conference : Meeting of the Vorstand and the General Secretaries 25 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

This is an independent institution which the national Societies will undertake to protect and guard as a matter of course. Fräulein Henström: In Sweden, as far as I know, more than a third of the members have not joined a branch.
In the faculties of philosophy it was never a matter of moving up to the next class; this did not happen at Strasbourg under Professor Windelband41 or anywhere else for that matter. You simply presented yourself and were accepted.
Baroness de Renzis: Ought we to announce the anthroposophical character of any undertaking or initiative arising out of our Movement from the start, thus provoking the danger of having it rejected, or should we endeavour to disseminate an anthroposophical understanding within public opinion without throwing down the challenge of it being judged and rejected?
260. The Christmas Conference : Continuation of the Foundation Meeting 26 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

We must be absolutely clear about the fact that our Society, before all others, will be given the task of combining the greatest conceivable openness with true and genuine esotericism. At first under the obstacles and hindrances of those terrible years of the war, but then also through all kinds of inner difficulties, we have indeed experienced the establishment of this problem in every direction.
Anthroposophy does not need the atmosphere of a clique. When hearts truly understand Anthroposophy they will beat in unison without the need for heads to knock together. If we solve this purely human problem of letting our hearts sound in harmony with one another without the need for our heads to knock together, then from the human side we shall have done everything necessary, also in the leadership of the Anthroposophical Society, to prepare for the achievement of the things that have been depicted.
Then I shall ask you to agree to the Statutes in general, after which we shall open a detailed debate in which we take one Paragraph at a time, when contributors will be asked to speak only to the Paragraph under consideration. There will then be a concluding debate leading to the final adoption of the Statutes.
260. The Christmas Conference : Continuation of the Foundation Meeting 27 Dec 1923, Dornach
Translated by Johanna Collis, Michael Wilson

DR STEINER: Would you like to make a suggestion to help us understand better what you mean? HERR KAISER: I have only just noticed this expression. I shall have to rely on your help as I can't think of anything better at the moment.
When was the Vorstand elected? MR KAUFMANN: I was under the impression that it was accepted when you proposed it; and the agreement of the meeting was expressed very clearly. DR STEINER: You must understand that I do not regard this as an election, and that is why just now I did not suggest: ‘the leadership at the Goetheanum which is represented by the Vorstand elected by this foundation gathering’ but ‘formed’.

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