Who was Elisabeth Vreede? Would you like to know more, or participate? Elisabeth Vreede was born in 1879 in The Hague (the ). She was a member of To contact the Elisabeth Vreede Institute, Elisabeth Vreede the first management group of the general please use the following email address and , assistant to Rudolf website: Steiner, and as an astronomer she was the first Institute head of the Department of Mathematics- [email protected] Astronomy of the School for Spiritual Science. www.evreedeinstituut.nl (under construction) She died in 1943 in Ascona (Switzerland). ✓ to receive information about the

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Objectives 3 - The Institute strives to play a central role necessary knowledge in bringing together global initiatives and to tools and Elisabeth The institute wants to continue the anthropo- take initiatives in the aforementioned fields. Vreede has courage- sophical work of Elisabeth Vreede on Work for volunteers is organised, and ously set the first steps astronomy, building on a threefold foundation: financial support is sought, especially for on this road – let us

larger projects. The Elisabeth Vreede continue her work. 1 – The Elisabeth Vreede Institute carries out Institute wants to work on themes that research into anthroposophically oriented appeal to modern man and wants to help to astronomy and spreads knowledge about this Vision counterbalance the prevailing theories in the subject. The collected works of , It is the vision of the Elisabeth Vreede field of astronomy. Cooperation between publications of Elisabeth Vreede, and Institute that in view of the current people is important, as well as collaboration astronomical observations serve as the main problems in society, the human being needs with other institutions. The institute as a basis for the work. The research methods are to be put into the centre. He is part of the social organism strives to structure its based on spiritual science () on natural and of the spiritual world. It can lead organisation based on the social three- the one hand and, on the other hand on natural to more insight in the causes of many folding as described by Rudolf Steiner. science, however from the viewpoint of the problems, when on the basis of insight in human knowledge as described by anthroposophy, conscious and clear Several activities have already started within Rudolf Steiner in his book “Observation and thinking will arise about how the spirit the framework of the institute, such as the Thinking” (GA 2). It is important to note that specifically works in the cosmos, the human translation into Dutch of the astronomical astronomy could be the first scientific field to being and the earth. Mediating between letters that Elisabeth Vreede wrote from be spiritualised, according to Rudolf Steiner. extremes can so be enhanced, and instead 1927 to 1930 (published in German in 1954 of polarisation and and 1980 as ‘Astronomie und 2 – The institute supports fear, dialogue, Anthroposophie’, and in English in 2001); proper management and healing and trust making an inventory of the legacy of careful disclosure of what can arise. Elisabeth Vreede; and astronomical research Elisabeth Vreede has left into planet orbits in lemniscate form. behind and its use in

research. This There is much more to be done, though: includes the investigating the specific relationship eventual publication of her between man and the cosmos; contribute to written work, looking into a proper care of Elisabeth Vreede’s legacy; Rudolf Steiner possibilities for (co-)managing and giving society a spiritendowed vision of (1861 - 1925) the Vreede Archive and striving the relation of man with the world and of to involve the observatory that the earth with the cosmos. For this, Rudolf she has built up in in research. Steiner's anthroposophy has given us the