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261. Our Dead: Eulogy at the Cremation of Hermann Linde 29 Jun 1923, Basel

He left behind his dear wife, our dear friend, and his dear daughter. We must understand the pain they feel over his death, in true inner warmth. We must understand that we make our thoughts about him, which are devoted to him, quite precious by remaining connected in the most intimate love, as long as we are granted this on earth, with these, his friends who have survived him.
If we know in the right sense that death is not the destroyer of life but the beginning of another form of life, then we must understand in the right sense that the love that has been assigned to one who is now dead to earthly life also enters into another form of existence with this death. And if we do not understand this metamorphosis of love, then we do not understand in the right sense the metamorphosis of life, which we think we understand when we join a spiritual movement like anthroposophy.
261. Our Dead: Address at the Cremation of Georga Wiese 11 Jan 1924, Basel

And this love, this loyalty, this wonderful warmth of heart, it radiated from Georga Wiese to such an infinitely beautiful extent that everyone who met her felt how beneficial and at the same time how deeply understanding this togetherness could be. We were privileged to get to know Georga Wiese in her native environment, to which she wanted to convey the spiritual life with such zeal and such an understanding gaze from her beautiful soul.
Outwardly, she had the most faithful care in the hospital and from the understanding doctor, and in this respect I was deeply satisfied when I was able to speak to her doctor myself during a visit shortly before her death.
I had to leave Georga Wiese in a state of deep concern. My dear mourners, if one understands the spiritual underpinnings of the human being while he is still on earth, one may only strive with strong, powerful thoughts to say that he will, he will be healthy.
261. Our Dead: Memorial address for Charlotte Ferreri and Edith Maryon 03 May 1924, Dornach

All this – it may be said, because Miss Maryon understood it perfectly – actually helps nothing within the Anthroposophical movement. Anyone who believes that it helps within the anthroposophical movement is on the wrong track.
The painter must contribute his abilities, and so on and so forth. You understand this, because otherwise I would have had to carry out the whole Goetheanum construction alone.
What I had to say today should culminate in showing how a quiet, self-sacrificing working life within the anthroposophical cause has been effective here, that it is irreplaceable, and that I am certain that those who understand what it actually means to work in a leading position within the anthroposophical movement, as I must do, will take what has been said in an understanding sense.
261. Our Dead: Eulogy at the Cremation of Edith Maryon 06 May 1924, Basel

And of Edith Maryon it can be said that her reliability was something absolutely true and faithful. If she undertook something that required her practical sense, it would be there in due course, even when the work to be done was quite remote from her actual professional activity.
She was cared for until her last hours, not only by the doctor, but also by the nurses who had become dear to her and cared for her, and it was under the care of these nurses that she often spent agonizing hours in the last days, but these could always be brightened in an extraordinarily beautiful and spiritual way.
261. Our Dead: Eulogy for Admiral Grafton 14 Sep 1924, Dornach

And so he repeatedly told me that the great satisfaction of his life was that, after a long search, he had finally come to an understanding of life through anthroposophy, although he had started from the opposite pole. And one always had the feeling that when this personality spoke about a connection with anthroposophy, it was not only from the depths of the heart, but there was also a wonderful, almost beautiful enthusiasm in this sense of connection, an enthusiasm that must truly appear as a particularly beautiful one when it is spoken from a heart that who had reached old age through a life of hard work.
Admiral Grafton was only able to listen because of his general enthusiasm for the spirituality of anthroposophy, as he did not understand German well enough to follow a lecture. He could only follow with his heart. He was only able to follow the general thrust of the matter.
And I am very grateful who could not be here in person at the funeral service for our dear friend, that the friends, especially our friend Heywood-Smith, have taken it upon themselves to say beautifully, devotedly, with a deep understanding of the personality of Admiral Grafton, what I would have liked to have said myself at the funeral service if I had not been detained in England out of duty.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 3. Letter to Marie von Sivers in Russia 20 Aug 1902, Berlin

And it makes me unspeakably sad that he, in the case of the previous “leaders” of the German Theosophical movement (Bresch 19 and Hubo 20 and their appendix) finds so little understanding. In Hübbe-Schleiden there lives a real potency in terms of the history of the development of the spirit; in Mr.
There will be things in which they will probably put insurmountable obstacles in the way of an understanding when forming sections. It is most disastrous when those who want to set the tone are rigidly dogmatic in everything and lack fundamental convictions almost entirely.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 5. Letter to Marie von Sivers near Berlin 16 Apr 1903, Weimar

It seems that even in little Weimar, too little understanding of evolution and science has taken hold, despite Haeckel's work at the university in the neighboring city of Jena.
In such places a multitude of forces gather that are opposed to Theosophy. There they play their game under the strangest masks. One gets to know them particularly in the form of flatterers who slowly and surely creep into the soul.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 6. Letter to Marie von Sivers near Berlin (2nd version) 16 Apr 1903, Weimar

In such places, the forces that oppose Theosophy gather; they play their game there under the most curious masks. One gets to know them particularly as flatterers, who sneak into people's souls with a very special language of the heart.
The entire “sitting” (German: “Sippung”) is conducted in a ceremonial manner. It is necessary to understand the magic of any ceremony if one wants to see through the determining power of these “sittings” on people.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 7. Letter to Marie von Sivers near Berlin 18 Apr 1903, Weimar

We will now have to do everything firmly, even at the risk of these old theosophists leaving us. — You understand me; and that gives me strength, it clears my wings. In loyalty and brotherhood, R. St. 5.
Not benefit and not advantage, but necessary fulfillment of a clearly understood karma!!! For me, the difference was clear when I saw that my allusions to this effect, intended for the initiate, fell on no fertile soil in Berlin and were only understood by Fräulein v.
262. Correspondence with Marie Steiner 1901–1925: 9. Letter to Marie von Sivers near Berlin 19 Apr 1903, Weimar

I was in Weimar for seven years,13 and it is understandable that even today the “ghosts” of those “untruths” are creeping out of all corners again. There is too much that is personal about my relationships in Weimar.

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