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Albert Steffen, the Poet Marie Steiner 34 a Selection of Poems 38 Little Myths Albert Steffen 51 ALBERT STEFFEN CENTENNIAL ISSUE NUMBER 39 AUTUMN, 1984 ISSN 0021-8235 . Albert Steffen does not need to learn the way into the spiritual world from Anthroposophy. But from him Anthroposophy can come to know of a living “Pilgrimage ” — as an innate predisposition o f the soul — to the world of spirit. Such a poet-spirit must, if he is rightly understood, be recognized within the anthroposophical movement as the bearer o f a message from the spirit realm. It must indeed be felt as a good destiny that he wishes to work within this movement. H e adds, to the evidence which Anthroposophy can give of the truth inherent within it, that which works within a creative personality as spirit-bearer like the light of this truth itself. Rudolf Steiner F ro m Das Goetheanum, February 22, 1925. Editor for this issue: Christy Barnes STAFF: Co-Editors: Christy Barnes and Arthur Zajonc; Associate Editor: Jeanne Bergen; Editorial Assistant: Sandra Sherman; Business Manager and Subscriptions: Scotti Smith. Published twice a year by the Anthroposophical Society in America. Please address subscriptions ($10.00 per year) and requests for back numbers to Scotti Smith, Journal for Anthroposophy, R.D. 2, Ghent, N.Y. 12075. Title Design by Walter Roggenkamp; Vignette by Albert Steffen. Journal for Anthroposophy, Number 39, Autumn, 1984 © 1984, The Anthroposophical Society in America, Inc. CONTENTS STEFFEN IN THE CRISIS OF OUR TIMES To Create out of Nothing 4 The Problem of Evil 5 Present-Day Tasks for Humanity Albert Steffen 8 IN THE WORDS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES Albert Steffen as Artist-Knower Hermann Poppelbaum 11 Impressions of Albert Steffen From “The Excellence of Albert Steffen” Percy MacKaye 18 From the Basler Nachrichten Hermann Hesse 19 A T ribute Bruno Walter 21 As Illustrator and Painter Richard Kroth 22 Albert Steffen, A Survey of his Life Henry Barnes 23 POET OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS A Book of Poems by Albert Steffen Rudolf Steiner 30 Albert Steffen, the Poet Marie Steiner 34 A Selection of Poems 38 Little Myths Albert Steffen 51 REDEMPTION OF DESTINY: EXCERPTS FROM NOVELS Transplanting, from Ott, Alois and Werelsche 55 Operation; Session of Parliament, from Elderman’s Memoirs 59 Dante and Giotto, A Conversation, from The Mission of Poetry 67 The Burning of the Bau, from Wildiron 71 DRAMATIST OF THE NEW MYSTERIES Albert Steffen and the Drama Frederick Hiebel 77 The Engineer’s Report, from The Fall of Antichrist Albert Steffen 90 Costume Designs and Stage Sets Albert Steffen 80-85 THERAPY OF FREEDOM AND LOVE: ESSAYS Concerning Freedom and Love, from The Mission of Poetry 93 Mani, Part II Albert Steffen 97 COMMENTS AND REVIEWS Albert Steffen and the Dead Manfred Krueger 111 Thoughts on Reading The Mission of Poetry Karl Ege 114 From George Archibald’s Life Story Susan Riley 118 Remolding of Destinies Christy Barnes 121 ILLUSTRATIONS Albert Steffen, a photograph 2 A Eurythmy Form Rudolf Steiner 36 Elisabeth Steffen and Felicitas, a photograph 41 The Little Sylph, a drawing Ann M an Rascher 50 C ontributors to this Issue 123 List of all the Poems in this Issue and their Sources 124 [Image: photograph of Albert Steffen with signature beneath photo] STEFFEN IN THE CRISIS OF OUR TIMES Chorus From Adonis Play by Albert Steffen Let this be for us our cosmic goal: — To paint a living picture for the soul Which the claws of death cannot despoil, Which lights the darkest dungeon deep below — Take a new earth with us when we go, Which no evil shadow e’er can soil, No tide nor flood can ever wash away, No wind that blows can ever bleach or blight, Will never yield to acid’s poisoned bite, Will never melt in fire’s burning ray, That’s brighter than the sun’s own visage is — But only Christ himself can give us this! Translated by Arvia Ege ----The entire text of Adonis Play has been translated into English by Sophia W alsh. 3 From A SPIRIT SEEKER’S PORTFOLIO To Create Out o f Nothing ALBERT STEFFEN Once and for all — so everyone may say to himself — I am a creative human being. Just when I am confronted with noth­ ingness and feel myself to be of no account, this is a sign for me to wrest something from the abyss and, by this means, lend courage to my comrades instead of infecting them with a sense of impotence by losing my own courage. The thought that one must never hold oneself worthless is confirmed when I see others despair. This sight of the degeneration that spreads itself about me is the signal that I must become a man who can awaken to insight, find the power to transform himself and become a helper of others. In this resolve — the resolve of the spirit-man — which must ever and again renew itself, always on its own new-won ground, is to be sought the origin of the mysteries of modern times. These have to pass through a threefold abyss. Man, the ego-being, has to overcome the tyrant, the beast, and death within his own soul before being able to be “creative out of n o th in g .” * With this resolve, which has to be seized in the immediate moment, one receives new powers. They are the powers of awakened thinking, dead no longer like that of material sci­ ence; of purified feeling, which lifts itself to the whole of man­ kind, instead of only to a group; creative will, filled with the knowledge that it will carry the fruits of the present life into the next. Through this resolve, at some future stage of human devel­ opment, if not in the present, evil will be turned to good, if I do not now falter. Translated by Arvia Ege ----*An expression of Rudolf Steiner’s. 4 From MEETINGS WITH RUDOLF STEINER The Problem of Evil ALBERT STEFFEN I had come directly upon the problem of evil through my own experience and, without any further help, had had to come to terms with it. The certainty grew upon me that it roiled anony­ mously in the masses who paraded the streets long after mid­ night and that in every single human being it lay germinant and could shoot up at any moment. Inner and outer watchful­ ness were the only protection. But the masses slept. He who had become aware, as had happened to me, of what was brew­ ing in the ocean of the abyss, felt horror seize him. The “hearth of destruction”* which is present in each human being, but which remains hidden to ordinary conscious­ ness, had already at that time become perceptible to me. I sensed how evil can surge up out of every individual. What is it that covers these depths of the abyss for man, out of which only the outermost foam caps, phosphorescent, are throw n up? It is the idle talk at the surface of every day, although even this is directed from below; public opinion, spread over it by a deceitful press; and as the first sip on awaking, as a last nip be­ fore falling asleep — the morning and evening papers; the mid­ day editions may serve as after-dinner nap — instead of self-re- flection. Seen from my room in the Elsasserstrasse in Berlin (although I could only look down into a dark well between buildings) life appeared to me like a monstrous nightmare in which disaster, ----*An expression of Rudolf Steiner’s which I heard him use in lectures at a much later time. 5 lying in wait, was already foreshadowed: poisoning of the blood, disintegration, and soul-leprosy. How must that passage from the lecture cycle given by Rudolf Steiner on August 4th, 1906, in which he speaks of the origin of a future evil race and of a community of men whose task it is to overcome and to transform it through the spirit, have shaken a young man who, in his isolation, was dreaming his way through history. This community is that of the Mani- chaeans, so named because of their founder Manes. Rudolf Steiner speaks in the ninth of these lectures, entitled “Good and Evil,” of the fact that man, who has thrust the ani­ mal kingdom out of himself, also puts out into the world the good and evil which work within him and separates them. Thus good and evil will each create a race of its own, even though not in the sense of previous races, and this division must be regarded as a preparatory stage in the evolution toward a universal state of humanity. This should not be misunderstood, he said, and went on to state that one must distinguish between soul development and the development of race. A soul may be incarnated in a race which is in decline, but if the soul does not of itself become evil, it does not need to come to birth in a receding race, but may be incarnated later in one which is ascending. Souls enough stream from other quarters into the degenerating races. But what is within must make its way outward, and man will rise higher when his karma has worked itself out; something extraordinarily interesting is to be realized in this connection. Rudolf Steiner then referred to that community founded by Manes, about which there existed at that time only very incom­ plete descriptions, which have since been revised frequently as a result of the well-known discoveries of Manes’ writings. These statements of Rudolf Steiner’s have, as a result, been con­ firmed from all points of view.
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