November/December 2002 CAMPHILL CORRESPONDENCE

ow is the time for the chal- lenging work of making peaceN . I don't see much effort in that direction on an international scale. I don't hear real, sophisti- cated, heartfelt plans for a peace- ful world. I'm reminded of clients in therapy who present traumas and personal disasters. They may try to overcome their obstacles, but they get where they want to be only by taking in the experi- ence of trauma and holding it un- til it begins to offer its sense . Peace is a positive condition, a desire to be connected with the `Kudolt Meiner stood for Threetolding' See article page 14 . people of your neighbourhood, your country and the world, based on an appreciation for the world-view and way of life they offer . It requires a profound love of difference and diversity in all things, and that love has to be so grounded, concrete and unsentimental that it translates into justice and mutual support . • . .International peace also requires peace in the individual heart . Each person needs to find a vision, a calling, work, love, and reconciliation with family and the past ; to feel the tranquillity ofheart neces- sary for a peaceful engagement with the world. This condition will never be perfect or complete, but the process of interior peacemaking allows compassionate expression and an end to the common, personal paranoia that works against peace . • . .I'm distressed by the way world leaders are talking and positioning themselves . But I also have hope . I'm reminded of the days in America of demonstrations and marches and messy uprisings for racial justice. Many wanted to go back to the peace of a former time, but that former so-called peace was bought at the price of the freedom, dignity and opportunity of mill ions of deserving people . I hope that the current struggles represent a passage through injustice towards a better world . Only that kind of outcome will show that we have been making peace and not merely stifling upheaval . • . . This kind ofpeacemaking is a quiet, reflective process of a local life rich in diversity and individual- ity. The goal is not a worldwide consciousness of unity but a pleasurable conversation with a fellow human being whose life is remarkably different from yours and immeasurably enriching to you . Peace is the deep)y felt wish that the other prosper and cultivate his and her differences . Thomas Moore Thomas Moore is the author of Care of the Soul, Original Self and other works . Centenary matters from the editor As the end of this year approaches, we are happy to tion for it and, not least, the brave few who have go out in style with several major, and very varied, expressed criticism-equally important and useful . contributions in this issue arising from Karl Königs As usual with special issues, it has created a slight Centenary. backlog of material and we apologise if your contri- The editorial team would like to thank all of you bution is not included here. who were so supportive, in a variety of ways, in mak- Some centres have ordered extra copies to give to ing possible the Centenary edition in September . Also, friends and supporters . These are still available from all of you who have expressed thanks and apprecia- Maria address on Back Cover. Your editor, Peter

' . . . a great man passed this way' John Nixon, Glencraig, Northern Ireland

t is remarkable what a deep and significant experi- top the head in which the Book of Keils was written . ence it was for Karl König when he paid his first visit The disc is the image of the astral body in the etheric to Ireland in February/March 1953 . A sequence of diary realm. Am very pleased with this insight . Then on to Dub- entries and a letter to a close friend bear striking testi- lin. In the early afternoon visited Trinity College and in mony to this . the library saw the Book of Keils and other manuscripts . 1 St March 1953 : We are travelling by car along the north- 5th March 1953 : In the afternoon I go to the National ern coast. It is very misty, but the sun is gradually break- Museum in Dublin and see the most astonishing things ing through in radiant brightness . I am only now from early Irish history. Examples of gold-work remind becoming aware how very strange Ireland is . The grass me of Mycenae, early Christian craft work of extraordi- is greener than anywhere else, and the light, too, is dif- nary beauty. Then there are the casts of many Irish ferent. I feel that the whole iron process in earth and air crosses which, when thus placed together, again bring is much weaker than in other parts of the Earth, and for the etheric image of man before my mind. . . If all this that reason the copper process is much stronger. The were illuminated by the Rose-Cross, it could shine forth sea is of a wonderful blue and the water clear and trans- in a new way. parent. It is wonderful to experience this strange land. 3rd March 1953 : In the morning we cross the border to From a letter to Eberhard Schickler, 16th March 1953 the South and are in Ireland proper. We drive to Keils, My stay in Ireland was something of quite extraordinary and in the market place I see my first Irish cross . The significance. It was as though there were open doors wher- impression is overwhelming . ever I went. In Belfast over five hundred people attended The etheric atmosphere around it is completely differ- my lecture. In Dublin over three hundred, in London- ent, radiant, translucent. Then in the house of Columcille, derry over two hundred and fifty. Everything was made where the Book of Keils was written . Then to very official, with long newspaper reports and mayors, Newgrange, where the Hibernian sanctuary of initia- state functions, dinners and so on . I have very seldom tion lies underground. The shaft of the cross is hewn figured in this role and was deeply amazed to experi- through the rock and then its intersecting arms . Fonts ence that Anthroposophia-in the form in which I was lie on either side, only candlelight illuminates the depths able to bring it was accepted with open arms and and the sun at the midnight hour can be dimly discerned . warm hearts. It is quite astonishing that nothing has ever Yes, here lived what called cosmic Chris- been publicly said there about Rudolf Steiner, and so it tianity. Here the ancient visionary powers still work and was absolutely right that I gave the large public lecture weave; this place is dead, consecrated and yet some- in Belfast on 27' February (Rudol f Steiner s birthday) how preserved. and the one in Dublin on 4th March ('s death 4thMarch 1953 : In the morning we drive to day). The experience of the land was a profound one. Monasterboice. There Irish crosses tower out of the mist. Ireland is indeed a remnant of Paradise, and now 1 have At the top of the crosses I discovered a house carved been allowed to experience it for myself. with the same form as that ofColumcille in Keils, and so I know that it represents man in his head organisation . As the years passed Ireland also was to be deeply im- Thus the cross is man's etheric organisation, with at its pressed by Dr. König, and this is clearly witnessed by a Contents . . . a great man passed this way' John Nixon Obituaries Marjorie Rosenthai 11 / Lawrence Adler 13 finances Brigitte Köber and News from the Movement Cc rneIius M . Pietzner 1 Threefoldin takes to the streets Ivan Jacobsen 14 A life's journey Baruch Luke Urieli 3 Brachenreut e and the air tragedy Bruno The land, and associative community building Wegmüller 15 / 30 Years Duffcarrig Jens-Peter Hartmut von Ieetze 5 Linde 16 / Joan Tallo-80 Years 17 Soul Calendar Elsbeth Groth 6 Christof-Andreas is 70! 18 Promoting the Spiritual Well-being of Children : Books Hans Schauder, Vienna-my Home / Dag Conference Rob in Jackson 8 Hammarskjöld Biography / The Catacombs 18 The Titanic and 11 th September Alan Potter 10 'Tribute from Northern Ireland' written by Mrs . Doris L . Stanfield for the Glencraig Curative Schools Council after his death in 1966 . In just two paragraphs she cap- tures something of the essence of who he was and what he brough : Northern Ireland is a richer, better place today be- cause a great man passed this way-that man, Dr. Karl König, physician, philosopher, lecturer, writer, lit the can- dle of hope in the hearts of many parents for their handi- capped children and young people. . . . To have known Dr. König was an experience never to be forgotten; to work under his guidance was a privi- lege. Those of us who have done so found that he could inspire us with something from himself, making it possi- ble to attain heights which one felt would be impossible. May the light of his wisdom continue to shine for us all into future times .

Regarding Camphill and the Goetheanum Brigitte Köber, Aigues Vertes, Switzerland

e are aware of the significance of the year 2002 for the -of Karl Königs birth centenaryW on 25th September. At the same time there is the awareness that 100 years have passed since 1902 when Nativity with Beasts and Shepherds, David )ones the first attempts for Society-building out of the spirit of were envisaged by Rudolf Steiner. I feel that the well-being of the Goetheanum itself should Throughout Camphill worldwide, festive activities be more consciously included in Camphill's caring have been planned . I asked myself, What do we wish concern and responsibility, also financially . I consider to celebrate on this occasion? The commemoration is this as vital for the future . a profound recognition of the impulsewhich Karl König Would it not be appropriate and timely for each brought with him at birth . It was a far-reaching im- Camphill centre that is able, to make a conscious mon- pulse which found its manifestation in the attempts at etary gift to the Goetheanum on the occasion of the cen- living, working and striving in community with hu- tenary of Dr. Königs birthday? Surely this would be an man destinies in need of special care . important step and gesture at this time, and a recogni- We know well the custom of giving and receiving tion of the Goetheanum and its Society building efforts . gifts on birthdays . At this centenary birthday what I need courage to make this centenary birthday ap- would be the right gesture? Could the gesture be re- peal and hope it may find a strong echo . I feel certain versed: namely to give rather than to receive? that the initiator of the Camphill movement would join The Camphill impulse is inseparable from the well- wholeheartedly with this supporting gesture of thanks- spring of Anthroposophia which has its home in the giving towards the Goetheanum . Goetheanum building . In the Goetheanum, untiring Before sending this letter to Camphill Correspondence work is done in the service of Anthroposophia and it is I shared its content with Cornelius Pietzner, Treasurer done continuously under very strained financial condi- of the General at the tions . Living not too far from the Goetheanum I have Goetheanum, who offered to provide some details, become increasingly conscious of this fact. which follow.

An introduction to The Goetheanum and its finances Cornelius M. Pietzner, Dornach, Switzerland

hen Brigitte Köber phoned to tell me of her ini- Swiss francs, or just over 15 million Euros . The tiative to connect a centenary consciousness to Goetheanum is entirely privately financed . There is no theW work of the Anthroposophical Society and the state or federal (government) support . Everything must Goetheanum I thought that this was timely and fitting to be accomplished through support by members and the ongoing weaving of the Camphill impulse within friends . This is a unique situation in Switzerland . the General Anthroposophical Section of the Society. I For urgent renovation projects to buildings such as the therefore offered to provide a few aspects of my work in Halde, the Glashaus, the Schreinerei and the the Vorstand responsible for the financial life of the Goetheanum itself (restoring part of the outside face), Anthroposophical Society and Goetheanum . we will need a minimum of 12 million Swiss francs (8 .3 A few facts and details may be of interest : The million Euros) over the next 5 years . Important artistic Goetheanum/AAG annual running cost is 22 million projects like the Faustperformance, now in preparation

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preparation for 2004, need to be partially financed ferences and performances, workshops and seminars through gifts and donations . Of the expected total cost and meetings of all kinds . We estimate that approxi- of approximately 13 million Swiss francs (8 .9 million mately 120,000 people visit the Goetheanum every Euros), the Goetheanum needs to support one half, or year-and they want to come to a building that is clean, about 6 million Swiss francs over the next three years . warm, and with lights on! This needs support, as do This is in addition to ongoing and ordinary needs . It is the 230 coworkers of the Goetheanum . The building expected that there will be approximately 20 perform- needs to be cared for, and the beautiful gardens and ances of the entire unabridged Fausteach lasting a grounds. It needs to be watched and supervised, ar- total of almost 24 hours . It is also a powerful opportu- rangements need to be made for all the visitors-from nity for many people to experience the Goetheanum, finding a room or a meal, to preparing rooms for meet- as we are expecting approximately 15,000 people to ings and conferences . This is the most costly part of the attend these performances over a 6 month period . budget when we include everything that belongs to Of our total budget of 22 million Swiss francs, we the Goetheanum itself and the needs related to serving must 'find' 12 million (8 .3 million Euros) every year. the needs of the worldwide Society. In total this costs This essentially comes in five different ways : about 11 .9 million Swiss francs every year . Because of 1 . Membership dues: 5 million CHF the services we provide such as the Wochenschrift news- 2. Institutional/organization support : 2 million CHF paper and others, we can reduce these costs by ap- 3 . Gifts and donations : 1 .8 million CHF proximately 5 .5 million francs income every year . 4. Legacies and bequests : 2.2 million CHF Therefore, our total cost for Society related expenses is 5. Other diverse sources: 1 million CHF 6.4 million Swiss francs (4.4 million Euros) . One can There are approximately 52,000 members of the see that even just for Society related expenses, without Anthroposophical Society worldwide . However, mem- the added costs of the School of Spiritual Science and bership dues provide less than 25% of the running costs the Stage, the fees and dues of the members do not of the Goetheanum . Many members cannot pay the meet the costs . It would be important that we could, at full amount and dues are indexed to a cost of living the very least, find annual support from friends and or- standard for poorer countries . Two decades ago the ganizations to meet this shortfall of almost 1 .5 million membership fees paid for 40% of the running costs of CHF (ca. 1 million Euros). the Goetheanum . Thus, this situation has become worse I have chosen to share some simple financial facts over the years. with the readership to place the situation of the One can think of the Goetheanum as encompassing Goetheanum in perspective . (Incidentally, you can also three central activity areas each of which has both costs visit the Goetheanum web site at www.aagfinance .ch and income . The three areas are : (English) or www.aagfinanz .ch (German) for more re- The School for Spiritual Science with 10 Sections lated information . not including the Agricultural Department of the Natu- The Society needs the active interest and engagement, ral Science Section-which lies at the center of the also practically in the financial realm, of individuals work of the Anthroposophical Society. The School for and entities that feel themselves connected to the im- Spiritual Science conducts research based on spiritual pulses of anthroposophy. There are a number of groups science in their chosen areas and coordinates training, and institutions that have freely decided to donate every research and activities worldwide . The total cost for year to the Goetheanum, recognizing the need to sup- the School of Spiritual Science is 6.5 million CHF (4 .5 port this work . This is different from individual support million Euros) . The Sections are able to pay for just to one or the other Section which is also important, over half of these costs, and the Goetheanum, in sup- but is just one aspect of the total outlook . port of the Sections and the School, pays for the rest, Brigitte's initiative is very welcome for many reasons, or almost 2.6 million CHF. and the interest and concern of the Camph i I I Move- The Stage at the Goetheanum, in the Grand Hall, is ment for the life of anthroposophy and the Society is the heart of the Goetheanum building itself . It is the recognized with the greatest respect and thankfulness . home of Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas, which were If any community or person would like further infor- again performed this past summer, and also a center mation, please feel welcome to contact me at the for Goethe's Faust, performed regularly for over 60 Goetheanum at : tel : +41 61 706 43 10, fax : +41 61 years . The Stage is a central element of what the 706 43 14, e-mail : finanzwesenCgoetheanum .ch Goetheanum is and means for anthroposophy. The For those who might like to take initiative, the follow- Society supports two permanent Ensembles : one for ing is the relevant information . and one for Drama . Many thousands of peo- Thank you very much, Cornelius M. Pietzner, ple come regularly every year for what radiates from Treasurer, Vorstand am Goetheanum . the Goetheanum out of its artistic and cultural striv- ing . The cost of the Stage, with all its many aspects, Goetheanum Bank details : From Germany: Beneficiary: technical equipment and people, and all the produc- Anthroposophische Gesellschaft in Deutschland eV Account no. 10 084 510, tions, is almost 3 .8 million Swiss francs (2 .6 million GLS Gemeinschaftsbank eG, D- 70188 Stuttgart, BLZ 430 609 67 From Switzerland: Benefi- Euros). Its income is less than one million francs, so ciary: General Anthroposophical Society, Postfach, CH-4143 the Goetheanum supports the Stage with a total of 2.9 Dornach 1, Account no. 1 Raiffeisenbank, CH- million Swiss francs (2 .0 million Euros) . These costs must 9001 St. Gallen, Clearing no. 80005, From other countries : be found through gifts and donations . Beneficiary: General Anthroposophical Society, Postfach, CH- The third aspect for the Goetheanum is to serve as 4143 Dornach 1, Account no . 108862 . 92, Raiffeisenbank, the center of the worldwide Anthroposophical Soci- CH-9001 St. Gallen, Clearing no. 80005, Swift code RAIFCH22 ety, with members and friends coming to visit for con- Postal account of Raiffeisenbank: 90-970-5

2 A life's journey Baruch Luke Urielf, Camphill Kyle, Rep . of Ireland

Earthly depths amar and I met Dr. König for the first time on 11th hand over my tasks at Grange Village, leave my settled September 1951, a day after our arrival at Camphill existence and go to train for priesthood in The Chris- AberdeenT . In the following fifteen years I met him very tian Community. It was a decision which many of my many times-as lecturer, teacher, adviser and as one friends could not understand . It led me into a totally who pointed out one's mistakes, blunders, weaknesses . new realm and was to bring with it a parting of more In this last respect I was very lucky-Dr . König never than one year from my family . And yet it stood one day shouted at me. He was a choleric man and one could in front of me as a demand of such strength and clarity witness time and again his temperament! But he prob- that it could not be ignored . ably knew that with me a gentle remark went much deeper than a shout . I have forgotten a great deal in The ether world the last years but I remember still all his various words So, on 25th January 1975, I was ordained priest of The of guidance, such as the moment when he handed me Christian Community and was sent to Glencraig Com- my certificate on completing the training in Curative munity in Northern Ireland to become the first resi- Education and said that he could give me only half a dent priest of in Ireland . Soon certificate-the other half belongs to my wife . In this enough, I not only celebrated at Glencraig but became way he pointed out to the intellectual how much he a visiting priest to the other Camphill communities in owed his earthly anchorage and companion in life . Northern Ireland, and later to the new communities in And I could not but agree inwardly and try to turn the Irish Republic . more intensely to earthly realities . In this way I was allowed to experience how two vi- I n those days, 1951-1966, the Camphill Movement sions of Karl Königs became gradually true . He had was still relatively small and König was very aware of been told by Ita Wegman that he should establish the the destiny and development of every member of it . impulse of anthroposophy in the Irish Republic through So it was not by chance that at a time when our family medical and curative work . However, the plans which was well settled at Thornbury Lodge and I was mainly he had submitted to the Irish government were too engaged as teacher with some part-time duties in the great and futuristic and the entry of this impulse into garden, we were moved to the Ringwood Schools the Irish Republic therefore had to wait till 13 years where I was to take responsibility for the land and the after his death, though the step into Northern Ireland vegetable growing. had been possible during his lifetime . Through making this step towards the earth, hidden The second vision was one of a close co-operation depths of my own earthly existence came to the fore. between Camphill and The Christian Community . This Soon enough our marriage went through a deep crisis had been established at Botton Village through Peter from which it recovered only after 1964 . My destiny Roth and reached later into other Camph i I I Villages, had begun to change fundamentally through the en- especially in Britain and Ireland . counter with König and with the being of Camphill . In this way I could, as a member of the Camphill Movement, meet his impulses through their manifes- The language of the heart tation on earth and through meeting and working to- When I moved in 1964 from Ringwood to GrangeVil- gether with his close collaborators . However a direct lage, where I rejoined my family after some years of meeting with his being took place in another way and parting, and became responsible for the welfare of the has its roots in a Training Course lesson by him in the land and eventually for the administrative and social year 195213 . In a course about the Human Senses he texture of the place, I met another teacher : Peter Roth . turned in great depth to the sense of hearing . He de- Peter, the founder of Botton Village, was an ingenious scribed five of seven steps in the development of hear- man with extraordinary social gifts who, however, ing. The fifth step is made possible through the growth found it difficult to impart his impulses in a logically of an etheric organ in man . During embryonic devel- ordered way because his ability to express himself had opment a part of the ear moves down to become the been fundamentally impaired through an attack of kidneys and in this way a lyre-shaped etheric organ is polio . His words, advice and actions seemed time and formed which has four 'strings' . These strings are our again totally out of place and only gradually and pain- physical body, ether body, astral body and our I . Thus fully could I learn to understand how much wisdom the world can resound in man and man can resound there was in his apparent foolishness . It took me a very in his fellow men . A musical interchange becomes long time till I realised how this human being had possible whereby we can tune in with the world and learned, through the many years of suffering imposed help to change the world around us in such a way that on him by the after-effects of his illness, to live out of our innermost existence can be in tune with it. an immense depth of morality and love . I was deeply struck by this description of Königs. As Perhaps it was this encounter which opened my eyes time passed I learned that Rudolf Steiner, in his lec- to see how our villagers at GrangeVillage were changed tures on the karma of vocation, described the four when they were attending the Act of Consecration of members of man's existence as four strings of an in- Man . Their innermost humanity started to shine out . strument, but he did not speak about its lyre-like form This experience led eventually to the day in 1973 when nor about its anchorage in ears and kidneys . Gradu- I knew that, in defiance of all logical thinking, I should ally this lesson began to stand out in my memory as a

3 ally this lesson began to stand out in my memory as a of earthly slavery' . (From the Michaelmas prayer of the special gift to our specific group of students . The im- Act of Consecration of Man .) age of this Apollonic instrument accompanied my path- If we look more closely at this imagery we can real- way into my own dark depths at Ringwood and my ise that the fallen eyes of the man have the ability to gradual rise out of it as time went on . transform blood into the white seminal fluid, which When I had made my way to the priesthood, which can call the human entelechy from the heavenly world led me to Ireland, and l could gradually start to sense into the depths of earthly existence . Time and again it the quivering of the etheric world on this special is- happens that the human soul is not called but torn and land, further worlds opened up to me. I could discover precipitated into earthly existence . On the other hand, the etheric quality of the after-image and strive, to- the fallen eyes of woman, her breasts, have the gift of gether with many others, to see it ever more consciously transforming blood into the white fluid of milk, and in colours, plants, animals, human beings, life encoun- by suckling the child help it gradually to learn to meet ters and life situations . And in this striving to see with a the joys and sorrows, the challenges and trials of earthly new power of vision there sounded, with discreet hid- existence. It was for me a deeply moving experience den tones, the etheric lyre of Apollo-Michael . The af- to hear the story of a friend who for a time looked after terimage had begun to lead to the after-tone . Or to the child of her sister in law when the mother of this put it another way: seeing started to become listening, baby died in giving birth and the bereft family felt un- and listening started to become beholding . able to cope . It was then that the breasts of this friend Out of this gradual pathway, which I was led to walk began to swell and to produce milk and she could have on the island of Ireland-an island which has been gladly fed the baby were it not for the concern that she called in early traditions the island of St . John the Evan- would tie the child to herself when it was meant to gelist-I learned to see some aspects of the human body return to its father and siblings . It is through such a and their functions in a totally new way. true story that one can start to realise what it meant that part of the eyes of woman moved down to the The fallen human countenance; the male and region of her heart . The pain and the greatness of wom- female organs anhood becomes visible . I have described in my book Male and Female, that I Yet there is one part of the drama of the fall of the learned to know in my youth the teachings of Sigmund countenance of the human being which does not relate Freud . I had found them fascinating yet increasingly to either man or woman, but which happens equally sensed that there was something entirely wrong in them . to both, and can be followed in embryonic develop- Out of this grew the urge to find the truth about the ment to this very day. It is the aforementioned fall of realm of human procreation . I have made an attempt part of the ear which then forms the kidneys and thereby to describe what I learned in the course of my life in can become the carrier of the etheric listening organ the above-mentioned book, which was published in of the human being. This organ has the potential to the 78th year of my life . Now I would like to add to it a overcome the results of the Fall of Man, when used further chapter which arose in me when, during the consciously. It has begun to open up the growth of a Michaelmas season of the year 2001, I lived with the new era in which the brotherhood and sisterhood of image of Michael as the countenance of Christ . man will increasingly be able to develop and flourish . Facing once again this radiant countenance of Christ, What I have described so far sketches a path which I it became clear to me how the countenance of man was allowed to tread through meeting Karl König and underwent a fall in primeval times of human develop- his associates . It has its hidden core in that special les- ment. In this original Fall of Man, a part of the eyes of son of the year 1952/3 which I have described . I had Eve-who had seen the tree of knowledge and induced to meet powerfully the darkness of earthly existence in Adam to pick of its fruit-fell to the region of her heart, order to gradually find a new vocation and thereby to and was transformed to become her breasts ; and part be led to Ireland and its openness to the etheric world . of her mouth, which had craved for the forbidden fruit, fell much deeper and was transformed to become her The Grail vagina. At the same time, a part of the eyes and nose of Looking back at all this I have started to realise that a Adam, who had picked the fruit, fell into the region of deep longing which lived in me since my later child- his will and was transformed to become his reproduc- hood has found an answer through meeting Dr . König tive organs . and all the many associated with him in the wide com- Thereby there was established in the human being a munity of Camphill . At that early time of my life I dis- realm which can be the realm of Eros, whom Rudolf covered in my father's library a small book about Parsifal Steiner called the servant of love, but which can also and the Grail . I was much taken by the story, reading it fall under the rulership of Sexus, whom Rudolf Steiner over and over again, and later i n life read the Grail called the demon of love . I was helped to see this im- legend as told by Wolfram von Eschenbach, and many agery of the fallen countenance of man by encounter- a book related to it . Thus there grew in me a deep ing, many years ago among the exterior sculptures of longing to find the realm of the Grail and to enter it . an old church in England, the image of a devil which Until I realised in recent years that I had indeed found clearly showed a second face in the lower part of his it and entered it by meeting Dr. König and following body. There the demon of love was depicted which his guidance into a realm into which one can only mankind knows all too well, especially so in the last enter if one brings one's dark brother with one . eighty years of history . Billions of human beings, and What does this mean? It means, on the one hand, especially women, have suffered this aspect of the that one recognises the dark side of one's own existence, power 'that would fetter the spirit of man with chains that one accepts its reality and takes it on as a corn-

4 panion whom one tries gradually to transform . Only on and transformation . One has entered the realm of the this basis can one also make the second step, to take on Grail . a dark, frail, handicapped, disturbed brother or sister, In this I see the deepest level of my encounter with accept them as they are and try to help them to transform Karl König. their ailments. This is what one learns day by day in this Baruch lives with Tamar demanding, strenuous, crazy and yet wonderful life of in active retirement, much sought-after Camphill and which is a never-ending process of trial as a priest and counsellor, speaker and writer.

The land, and associative community building Hartmut von Jeetze, Triform Camphill Community, New York State

t the occasion of celebrating the anniversary of Karl time humble, servant of this discipline . Personally, and Königs one hundredth birthday, the editor of even more so as a pupil of Rudolf Steiner and of an- ACamphill Correspondence has placed two questions throposophy, he set an enormous example in this dis- before us: cipline. Camphill is unthinkable without this . It is an 1 . What does Karl König want to say to us today? expression of Königs and of the Camphill Communi- 2 . What does he want us to be doing and saying? ty's service to the spiritual impulse for which it stands . The thrust of both questions implies Königs presence Seen in this light, an answer to the second question, as an experienced reality. however incomplete it may be, must include the thrust Having known him since childhood, the most out- of the underlying motives that are the hallmark of standing experiences I have of him are : his spiritual Camphill . If we have real questions here too, the im- integrity, his great personality as a teacher and healer, print of Karl König must be discernible in what we say and his awareness of the importance of the details of and do . A small example may be given here about this life and devotion to order i n everyday things . from the work on the land in the American region of As a physician he expected that these virtues were Camphill . present in your house . This also applied to punctuality There is a new form of associating that has begun in and the ordering of time. These faculties signified the the work of Camphill in America . What follows relates presence in outer manifestation of the un-outspoken to how König envisaged new forms of associating, and inner attitude of those of us who want to serve the art which he pointed to as important toward the end of of healing . Once acquired as the daily base for our his life. For the following contribution, I am indebted work, their hygienic strength stays with us, accompa- to the latest regional meeting of Camphill farmers and nying us wherever we may be. gardeners in North America, who have begun to work Another expectation of importance was the celebra- with this new form of associating . tion of a person's birthday. For Karl König it was a mat- We need to find new forms of associating ; an associat- ter of course that on the birthday of a person living in ing of the kind where the fruits of what you have cre- your house, one ought to give a speech ; and not just a ated, what you have grown, of what changes you have superficial one! Because on a person's birthday we made together in your community are taken note of . In acknowledge the presence of the higher being of the short, what is needed is that we form a new way of individual . To give a speech in such moments can be a communicating and associating where your deeds and pretty sobering challenge, both with respect to one's mine, your community's and my community's deeds, self-perception and that of the other person . can appear by way of selfless deeds in a larger orbit of These two small examples may serve as a small door context and meaning than they would otherwise have, to meeting Karl König with respect to what he would and than what my motives alone can invest them with . be saying to us today. Of course, experiencing such a This is a methodology, not just a method, which König truth is something anyone will need to verify by him! helped to come into being : herself. Suffice it to say, that whatever the context in It means learning the technique of the dynamic which we may ask König for an answer to the first ques- grasp, the gesture of evolution and involution, of ac- tion, large or small, the answer we may get from him tual life situations . For this is the dynamic that nature will always be of a personal nature . Put into a larger itself employs, and through which nature breathes and context, his relationship to life may best be expressed lets us participate, to enter her life, to the extent that in the words of Goethe : 'Think of the what; but think you and I are able to . This is what we must learn to more of the how!' do . This is the living dynamic, the biodynamic proc- A response to the second question : 'what does he ess itself. want us to be saying and doing?' as far as I understand The effectiveness of this process-of taking hold of it, implies the upholding of anthroposophy in the work situations with the help of these new dynamics-de- we started in the context of the social needs of our pends on our ability to consciously take hold of-and time, under new circumstances . The first question ad- at the same time to act in-given situations of need, dresses the element of the past. The second question and at the same time to practice sound judgement . For addresses itself to the future . this you need the ability to see two situations at the In this respect, accomplishments in life are insepara- same time : the past-that which has been and which ble from adhering to the tasks we once have said yes can no longer be changed-and at the same time to to, and the spiritual path this implies that leads to their embrace the potential of the future-what has not yet fulfillment . König was the most faithful, and at the same come into being, but which wants to .

5 This may sound difficult . But it is not. As farmers, gar- In our land work in Camphill we have an enormous deners and foresters, we constantly practice this atti- opportunity to make a contribution through our re- tude, this meditative beholding, when we work on the gional land conferences, to make a beginning with what land . Only, we have not yet practised it consciously could become a tangible, not to say substantial, con- enough in the social domain . Which brings me to the tribution towards what can become not only a new essential part of this contribution . step in our relationship between our earthly Camphill Farming and gardening is human meditative work places as a regional place of offering, but for the world done through our limbs' contact with the soil . The fruit too. I am convinced that to the extent to which we of our labor is for the other human being's need . To- begin to take the land into our midst in the sense indi- day, work has increasingly been delegated to machines . cated, our Camphill places will also become attractive This is unavoidable . Still, the fact that machines have again for young people who look for progressive mo- increasingly driven human beings off the land has both- tifs in communities, including young farmers . ered me for many years . The remark that we never talk This i s my hope. about the land in Camphill is very apt, it is symptomatic In this context, it may be appropriate to conclude of a one-sidedness we in Camphill are not exempt from . with Karl Königs words to the friends in America on The question is : How can we remedy this situation? his last visit to the United States in 1962 : In a lecture cycle entitled : The New Spirituality and the Christ Impulse in the Twentieth Century (GA 200), To the friends in America Rudolf Steiner, says the following: The eternal lamps Man created machines as an addition to nature . These Of the holy Spirits of light he regards for the time being quite abstractly . He Build the tower of human confidence works with them in an entirely abstract way. He has That out of brotherly love his mathematics, geometry and mechanics. Grows in our hearts . A completely new spiritual concept must arise The eternal pillars which, on the one hand is capable of perceiving eco- Of the helping spirit-messengers nomic life in its inner spiritual vitality and on the other, Form the bridge of the faithful can perceive what role must be played by cultural life; how cultural life must give economic life its con- guardianship That spans in our striving deeds figuration . From I to l. There is no other way to bring humanity forward, now that nature no longer reveals the spiritual, than Thus we become united and strong to turn to the spiritual itself, and on the other hand to In the work that we have begun find in the economic element what people in earlier And which to lead to fulfillment times found in nature . Is laid upon us in the spirit. This however can only be found through associa- May the greeting from soul to soul tion. What a human being alone can no longer find Sound through the bond of our deeds. alone can be found by an association which will again develop a kind of group-soul, taking in hand what Hartmut is an elder member of Camphill, a lifelong the individual at present cannot decide alone . farmer and administrator.

Soul Calendar Elsbeth Groth, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen

udolf Steiner handed over the first edition of the 52 writing. It was printed in 1986 and has been translated verses of a Soul Calendar in 1912/13 . In a lecture in into many languages .* Cologne on 7t" May, 1912, he had said : 'Long occult re- Many of us have lived in this way with the Soul Cal- search is enshrined in these 52 verses, through which the endar, also taking into account Königs second study, soul can find a connection to the cosmos, a connection AboutSteiner's Soul Calendar . Printed first as individual to the spirit that lives and weaves through the world .' essays between 1963-5, they appeared in the German By not only numbering the verses 1-52, but adding journal News from the Anthroposophical work in Ger- the letters of the alphabet from A-Z twice over, Steiner many and were published in book form in 1970, by indicated that not only 2 verses but also 4 verses cor- Freies Geistesleben, Stuttgart . The English translation respond to one another . We thereby arrive at 13 x 4 appeared in 1977, published by Rudolf Steiner Press verses, representing the 13 moon cycles in the yearly and is still available in book form . I mention these de- sun cycle. tails, as it is my wish to express my gratitude to Dr. How deeply Karl König connected himself with the König for his work and to encourage the interested Soul Calendar is apparent in two profound studies . The reader to pick up this small book, perhaps again, or one is an artistic approach to which König gave the maybe for the first time . König takes us along on his title Metamorphoses of the Cross according to Rudolf own path of research and experience by following the Steiner's Soul Calendar, dated 1948 . 2 x 2 verses are year's course at the hand of the 52 verses . This can grouped around a central pictorial imagination of a serve as a guide for anyone wishing to set out on such cross which goes through 13 metamorphoses . The a soul journey, striving for the qualities needed to meet verses are in German in Dr. Königs wonderful hand- the many challenges .

6 Having the 13 x 4 verses written as they correspond of three verses were always kept in a similar mood . to each other, there appear definite landmarks in the The only essential thing was that verse 1 begins at Easter . course of the year. König mentions two such groups in Consequently, the forms given to the eurythmists carry particular. The group 7120133146, which we encoun- no dates but say '1 St week in November, 2nd week in ter first between Ascension and Whitsun, he calls 'the November,' and so on . cross of admonition' . We are confronted with the two For a long time I have wandered through the land- opposing powers, Lucifer and Ahriman, attempting scape of these verses . The content always speaks anew, each in their particular way, to sever man from the according to one's state of mind . I often think of Dr. spiritual world . In his Easter Imagination, Steiner de- Königs guidance with gratitude, because detailed as- scribes how the foundation for their aims is the proc- pects described in his book became like melodies ac- esses active in nature, and that man can easily fall prey companying me on this path . to their temptations . König also points to two main motifs : the first is the A little earlier i n the year we meet another remark- call 'lose thyself to find thyself' (9) which has varia- able relationship between verses 5122131148 which tions at other times of the journey. He makes us aware König refers to as 'the light cross' . We encounter the that in the St . John's verse, losing will become aban- different qualities of light at these particular landmarks doning and finding will change into searching, thus of the year and how we can respond to their chal- calling on us for more inner activity . lenges . Working with these considerations makes us The second motif is expressed in the concern of the aware of the opposite seasons of the northern and spiritual world that the connection between man and southern hemispheres, and we may think of the fifth cosmos must not be lost . Their effort is 'to firmly unite lecture of The four seasons and the Archangels where man and cosmos .'(4)This motif sounds again and again . Steiner draws our attention to this fact . In cosmic light and cosmic warmth the soul has, at the The path through the cycle of the year and the prepa- height of summer, received the seed of the cosmic ration and celebration of the Christian festivals were word, which needs to be nurtured throughout the au- always an important part in our community striving . tumn time so that at Christmas the Spirit Child may be In many lectures König shared with us his spiritual work born . Dr. König turns to this in a moving way in the and often the respective Soul Calendar verse and its last chapter of his book . counterpart would form the core of the lecture . Thus Throughout the 52 verses the name of Christ is not doors were opened to a deeper understanding of man, mentioned . After his earthly life, death and resurrec- of our earthly existence and our connection to spir- tion the Christ spirit accompanies the earth and man, itual beings . as the spirit of the earth . In the first lecture of Steiner's In my personal experience, Dr. König combines two The cycle of the year as breathing process of the earth, approaches towards an understanding of the cycle of there is a drawing which expresses this . : through knowledge, by turning to many rel- the year ~r evant lectures by Rudolf Steiner yet linking it to his nde M&ri of. A pre own research ; and through a feeling participation, by exploring the vast landscape of the human soul . Head and heart are addressed . . . .What the world around reveals in the course of time can also be discovered in the being of man, simi- lar to the movement of a pendulum . Given to the life rr,,'" of the senses and the stimulation thereby received can be experienced like the season of summer with its flooding light and warmth . On the other hand, 9 living and reflecting in one's own world of thought can be experienced like nature's state in winter . What That the earth in this drawing assumes the shape and nature thus reveals in the changing seasons is experi- colour of a rose is probably not chance. We may also enced as man's outer and inner life . Thus the Soul think of the formulation in the Foundation Stone Medi- Calendar verses can lead man on a path of self rec- tation :'the Christ will holds sway in rhythms of worlds, ognition, however in a feeling way . . .for what is di- bestowing grace upon the soul .' rected to human souls must by necessity take on in- Dr. König gave us insights into the mystery of these dividual colouring. 52 verses and I would like to quote verse 25 which Rudolf Steiner, Foreword to the First Edition, 1912 belongs to the week of his birthday, September 25th I may belong now to myself . , . Through these verses the soul can participate from and luminously spread inner light week to week in all that weaves through nature . To- into the dark of space and time . day souls carry a deep longing to be part of the course All Nature's being urges toward sleep which the world is taking. awake shall be my inmost soul Foreword to Second Edition, 1918. and wakefully, against winter's cold As early as 1913, Steiner gave very simple eurythmy the sun's warm glowing shall uphold . . Verse 35 forms for the verses to be performed solo * To order copies of this folder, see advert on page 20 . was the first one . Asked how to treat the changing dates every year, as the dates printed i n the first edition were Elsbeth is an elder Camphiller, for many years a those running from Easter 1912 to Palm Sunday 1913, weaver and more recently a eurythmy therapist. She he answered that this was not so significant, as groups invites readers' comments on the above piece .

7 Promoting the Spiritual Well-being of Children and Young People with Special Needs : an inclusive vision Conference at Camphill Schools Aberdeen Robin Jackson, Aberdeen, Scotland

shortened version of this piece appeared in The There was agreement that promoting spiritual well- Times Educational Supplement Scotland on 9t" August. being i n whatever context can only be achieved ThisA conference, financially supported by the Scottish through the medium of personal relationships between Executive, was part of the National Debate on Educa- adults and the children they are working with or are tion launched by Cathy Jamieson, Scottish Minister for responsible for. ProfessorAndy Kendrick noted that the Education and Young People earlier this year . The con- present preoccupation with different forms of abuse, ference arose from a recognition that the spiritual di- especially sexual abuse, has led to measures being in- mension in a child's development continues to be troduced, such as the 'no touching' policy, which deny neglected. It drew participants from a wide range of the child the affection, reassurance and comfort that backgrounds : parents, teachers, social workers, college can be offered through physical contact, thus remov- and university lecturers, Camphill co-workers and ing an important means for developing relationships members of different religious bodies. and thereby promoting well-being . Hermetically seal- Margaret Crompton, author of Children, Spirituality, ing children in a protective cocoon and denying chil- Religion and Social Work, highlighted the fact that the dren tangible expressions of warmth, compassion and right to spiritual well-being is firmly embedded in the understanding must impact upon their intellectual, 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child . Whilst social, emotional and spiritual growth . And what kind reference to meeting a child's spiritual needs is explicit of message does this proscription communicate to the in only a few clauses, recognition of these needs is child-particularly the child with special needs? implicit throughout the Convention . Thus, there is no Pam Courcha, a member of the Scottish Commission question of permissiveness in regard to training or prac- for the Regulation of Care, presented a parental per- tice in the fields of education and social care . A duty is spective and directed a series of questions at profes- clearly placed on all relevant bodies to ensure that a sionalworkers . If spirituality is developed partly through child's spiritual well-being is nurtured in just the same experiencing it in another, then what do we need to way as his physical and intellectual well-being . A short- look for in those who teach and care for our children? age of time is usually the reason-or excuse- advanced How do we find teachers and carers who are aware of for not addressing the spiritual well-being of children . their own spiritual needs and who are willing to help But little or no additional time is needed if the training others meet theirs? How do we support parents, who and practice are well founded, for the qualities, at- are struggling to secure the services their children re- tributes and values inherent in human personality and quire, to understand the importance of spirituality in experience do not require separate attention . If they the lives of their children-and themselves? And what are not there in training and practice-then they are does this all mean in the context of a Record of Needs both seriously flawed . meeting? How does a parent explain the value she puts Spiritual well-being can be defined as a sense of good on person-to-person connection, on respect and mu- health about one's self as a human being and as a tuality in teaching and caring relationships? How does unique individual . Spiritual well-being is not so much a parent ask for the whole child's needs to be met-for a state as a process of growth and development . It hap- friendships, for working through pain and finding in- pens when people are fulfilling their potential as indi- ner peace? viduals and as human beings . They have a sense of Angelika Monteux, Camphill Course Leader for the awareness of their own dignity and value . They enjoy BA in Curative Education then described the nature of themselves and have a sense of direction . They can curative education which is offered in Camphill sense this essence in others and consequently respect schools . She pointed out that curative education was them and relate positively to them . They are also at based on the pioneering work of Rudolf Steiner who ease with the world around them . sought through anthroposophy to link the conventional John Swinton, Aberdeen University School of Divin- natural sciences and spiritual science, thus necessitat- ity, indicated that religion and spirituality are among ing an holistic approach which embraces body, soul the most important factors that structure human expe- and spirit . The spirit essence in each person is consid- rience, beliefs, values and behaviour: spirituality be- ered to be eternal and carrying a divine spark which ing that aspect of human existence that gives it its cannot be affected by illness or disability. As a result humanness. Dr Swinton stressed that all carers had an Camphill communities have never subscribed to the ethical responsibility to recognise and respond to spir- deficit model of disability, for each child is seen as ituality as it is presented within all human beings . Carers unique and possessing a potential which it is the task must be equipped to recognise, understand and deal of Camphill communities to develop with this dimension . To that end there is a case for A number of current concerns were then identified and returning to the Aristotelian virtues of benevolence, discussed by conference participants . Particular attention compassion, honesty, sympathy, respect and loyalty. was drawn to the danger in adopting a top-down, officially But in order to be good educators we need to think in approved set of procedures or guidelines for promoting terms of an individual's humanity as well as engage in spiritual well-being, as these might become another slate the abstract world of ideas, concepts and arguments. of requirements, another set of standards, complete with

8 check-lists to be ticked, another set of 'competencies' for professionals to be tested for. The possibility was raised of work sheets, materials, on-line programmes and glossy booklets being produced for teachers to use with classes of slow or fast learners! Matters spiritual, it was argued, should emerge from working with and relating to children in all contexts, particularly by inviting them to explore their own think- ing and feeling in relation to their perceptions of hu- man nature and the world at large . This is the essence of the liberal-humanist philosophy of education that has largely been abandoned in official thinking, with its focus on standards, league-tables and assessment. Spiritual well-being is not promoted by an instrumen- tal examination-centred curriculum that ignores or dis- counts the everyday, every-minute spirituality of all human action . The basic requirement is a curriculum, an administrative system and policies that are imbued with the spirituality that will foster the promotion of spiritual well-being . Conference participants recognised that because of the litigious climate in which we now live and work, local authorities are increasingly resorting to defensive forms of professional practice which seeks to minimise all risks . If the principal driving force behind current reforms is the elimination of the risk of abuse then one is likely to witness the emergence of sterile and stulti- Casting out of Paradise, Irakli Parjiani fying care regimes in which opportunities for spiritual growth and development are significantly reduced . that we have also become afraid of relationships . This Whilst conference participants were in complete fear is manifested in the kind of no-touch policies that agreement as to the central significance of spirituality, can in themselves be abusive . We need to affirm the they pointed to the kind of institutional obstacles that capacity of both those cared for and those caring to prevented the incorporation of this dimension into prac- 'give' ; too often, we don't expect it from those we care tice. Lack of time, lack of understanding by manage- for and suspect it in caregivers . ment and an inability for current assessment practices Conference participants had some difficulty in see- to encapsulate the non-cognitive dimensions of human ing how the spiritual well-being of children and young beings were identified as serious impediments . It was people can be effectively promoted if the educational felt that spirituality had a political dimension inasmuch system is so narrowly preoccupied with competition, as institutions tend to be set up i n such a way to make performance and assessment . The ethos that this kind spiritual care impossible, as a consequence of which, of utilitarian emphasis generates militates against the no amount of training people on the ground is likely to development of a curriculum that nourishes the spir- make much difference . There is therefore a need for a itual well-being of children and young people . Fur- top down as well as a bottom up approach to the in- ther, if a child's intuitive and creative capacities are to troduction of these issues into daily practice . be enhanced then the current contraction in the artis- It was also recognised that opportunities had to be tic and creative components of the school curriculum created for more multidisciplinary reflection, collabo- has be reversed . ration, training and support . It was noted that the ways It was observed that a careful study of the principles in which professional competencies are normally and methodologies found in Camphill communities worked out and assessed tend to be very cognitive in might profitably be examined by those working in other orientation . It was felt that professionals need to ex- care settings, in particular the Camphill philosophy of pand their understanding of competencies to include incorporating spiritual well-being into the normal rou- the more intuitive dimensions of being human . This tine of everyday community life . would involve not only a serious re-think of what it There was general agreement that the Scottish Ex- means to be a professional and to act professionally ecutive should look for practical ways to promote the but also a re-working of current assessment procedures . spiritual well-being of children and young people with Concern was expressed about the current represen- special needs and to that end the establishment of a tation of children in residential care as either victims national working party would be a welcome and long or villains-neither of which representation touches overdue first step . their essential humanity . As a result of such labels and The conference concluded with the recognition that the kind of assumptions that accompany them we if a more socially responsive, responsible and genu- commodify rights and relationships . The message needs inely inclusive society is to be created ; we need to to be communicated that we are who we are only by promote, respect and cherish the humanity which re- virtue of our relationship with others . Relationships in sides in every child . all their intimacy and imperfections need to be ac- Robin is Development and corded greater prominence than they are . It was noted Training Co-ordinator for Camphill Scotland.

9 The Titanic and 11 t" September Alan Potter, Bofton Village

aster 1912 was deeply imprinted on the western sially among the suicide bombers . They rode on a wave E world's consciousness through the sinking of the of anger and resentment, out of the deeply felt unfair- ocean liner, The Titanic . This event, tragic i n itself, ness and powerlessness of the world's poor . This feel- reached so deeply into the soul because it opened a ing of injustice festers into the rage which can fuel such new threshold of social understanding which was to desperate actions . The poor of the 'undeveloped' coun- become a prominent feature of the striving of the tries are ever deeper in meaningless debt to the world's 20th century; i .e . 'that each soul in the western world rich, who in the eyes of the poor seem hardly to need matters!' their few pennies . The world's poor have little of the The common suffering and death of those few thou- public service tradition left to them to bind their soci- sand people was an event through which a critical mass eties together. Many of the corporations of the rich with of the people in the western world could relate to, their military alliances grow more compulsive in could identify with . People could imagine and live into growth-at-all-cost greed . the experience of having been on the ship or that a Having watched the Twin Towers fall on live televi- relative or acquaintance had been there . The stream of sion, I was struck that the mood of those watching was immigrants from Europe, shipped in misery and brav- one of a religious awe! A deeply held certainty about ery, were found in the 3rd class-among whom were the nature of the ship of the world state was broken . In most of the casualties . The middle classes, who were its place a profound mood of our common world hu- the glue and upholders of Europe and of urban manity grew and warmly pervaded our lives for a while, America, were in the 2nd class . The rich, both the landed a few days . aristocracy and the barons of capitalist industry, trav- The 21St century has begun . It is uncertain . It remains elled in a 1St class so luxurious that its size reduced the to be seen if the gesture woken by the disaster of the number of available lifeboats, so the impossible hap- Titanic at Easter, 84 years ago, will take a further step pened . This ship of state, of the western state, was bro- as from Michaelmas-tide a year ago : 'that each soul in ken on nature ; a nature in the form of an iceberg which the west matters and through Islam, each soul in the the industrial barons and materialist engineers held in world matters!' Is this to be a defining striving in the contempt. The unsinkable was no more . century unfolding before us now? Turning our thoughts to the anniversary of the Sep- Alan Potter is at present studying at the tember 11 th aircraft bombings in the United States, one Priest Seminary of The Christian Community in is aware that this world event has also imprinted itself Hamburg and lives in Botton Village with his family. deeply in the souls of a critical number of people in the west and further a field-chiefly in the Moslem world stretching from Morocco to Indo-China with a diaspora scattered through the western world . The ships The sky is full of stone and shadow which were unsinkable were state military power and New York on which the sun corporate economic power, the Pentagon and the has wet its slender rays World Trade Centre . The actors in this event, also from different streams of life, were brought in a moment to it is a day for the long knives the threshold of the spirit, in what was a world experi- the grind of brakes the squealing wheels ence of common humanity. St for gleaning and pickpocketing The generals and the world bankers were in the 1 newspapers of their sparse details class, you might say. The 2nd class was represented largely by the clerks of the New York Port Authority and from their bins stare upwards and the Emergency Services .These public service work- from their depths towards ers represented the vast amounts of public life and the blank areas between their columns unselfish capital invested in the social infrastructure of the United States, the glue of public life in which eve- for some resemblance of understanding . ryone partakes-travel, housing, sanitation, schooling, Andrew Hoy and so on . The 3rd class is to be found with the poor, the porters and cleaners, and perhaps most controver-

Eva Sachs has crossed the threshold

ur dear Eva Sachs, who was 73, left us in the early away. It was a deep shock, hardly to be believed, that hours of 13th September, peacefully in her sleep . Eva had left 'the beautiful world', as she called our It was a most beautiful autumn day . Eva had been very earth . She has entered the light where she will have happy-happy that she had overcome her illness at different, important tasks . It became light around her ; the beginning of the year; happy to work in her beloved a noble being has left the physical plane . We gave her garden . She had worked hard on that last day to get back to the earth before sunset, 19th September . beds ready for winter planting . As she did not come to Dorette Schwabe breakfast, I looked for her and found that she had passed An obituary will appear in a future issue .

10 Obituaries

Marjorie Rosenthai 6th December 1908-15th April 2002 Judith Jones and Gisela Schlegel, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen

arjorie Rosenthal was born in were determined that Julia would the Orange Free State of South live as full and happy a life as possi- AfricaM in the small town of Ham- ble. It was in their search for help mersmith beneath the Drakensberg that they met Dr. König who gave Mountains . Her mother's family the first ray of hope . In 1953 Julia were settlers of English origin and was admitted to Thornbury Park her Scottish father had gone out to where Marjorie and Harry were to South Africa through his work in es- become frequent visitors . tablishing banking . Marjorie was After Julia had left Thornbury at the eldest of two daughters . She al- the age of sixteen Marjorie grate- ways remembered fondly her fully accepted the invitation from grandparents' house where they Marga Schnell and Gisela Schlegel lived and the African servants who that Julia come to the Camphill took care of them . Amongst Schools in Aberdeen for a holiday. Marjorie's childhood memories Just two days before Julia was to were train journeys to Durban in travel Harry died suddenly . Julia the family compartment and excur- came as planned but in the circum- sions into the mountains with the stances her holiday was prolonged servants carrying picnic baskets . and extended further by pneumo- Although Marjorie did not have nia . By the time Julia was well an easy relationship with her enough to return home she made mother it was through her that she it quite clear that she wanted to stay imbibed a love for music . From an in Murtle House . She became an early age she learned to play the adult resident of the Schools for violin . When she was seventeen she over twenty years . travelled with her mother and vio- From then on Marjorie's own Iin teacher to Europe where there were opportunities connection to the Camphill Schools grew, with regu- to further her musical education . After a time in Hano- lar visits over festival times when she came to take ver, Marjorie went to Brussels to study at the Julia home for holidays . Camphill co-workers were Conservatorium music school . Her next move was to able to enjoy Marjorie's hospitality in London . Her London where she studied music at the Guildhall with home, The Studio, became the place where Dr . Tho- Max Rostal as her teacher. It was in those days that she mas Weihs and later Dr. Nick Blitz interviewed chil- met Ruth Asher, a pianist, who became a life long friend . dren for the Camphill Schools-and Marjorie herself Marjorie always felt herself to be cosmopolitan but occupied the children while the parents were being London became her home . The world of the arts never consulted . lost its magnetism for Marjorie but as the war years Already in the early years of her retirement Marjorie drew nearer she decided to take up social work as her was invited to move to St . Devenicks House on Murtle profession . She was to work for the London County Estate to help care for Julia . Marjorie began to antici- Council for twenty-five years . Marjorie loved this work, pate a future move to Aberdeen, but was not yet ready keeping contact with a few of her client families be- to leave her connections in London, which included yond her retirement . playing in a string quartet . When Julia died in 1986 Marjorie was in her mid thirties when she met Harry Marjorie's visits to St . Devenicks continued until she Rosenthal . He had escaped the Nazi regime having been eventually decided to accept the earlier invitation . In one of the renowned Jewish architects of pre-war Berlin 1990 Marjorie moved to Murtle Estate having sold her and a member of the Bauhaus movement. Marjorie and London home and given most of the proceeds to the Harry were married in 1946 . As Harry had no opportu- Camphill Schools . nities to continue his profession at this time Marjorie Marjorie was now already in her eighties but want- was the main breadwinner. They lived in quite meagre ing to be helpful in whatever ways she could-from circumstances though apparently Marjorie shared their helping co-workers with English to drying the dishes . food with those who were more destitute . Whether it was sitting on the front row for a lecture in In her fortieth year Marjorie gave birth to her first and the hall or dressed up for carnival with the children, only child . There were complications at Julia's birth and Marjorie was always ready to take part in whatever she was born with severe cerebral palsy. Her parents was going on . were told by doctors that she had little chance of sur- Marjorie was often mistaken for much younger than vival . After facing this initial shock Marjorie and Harry her years with her sprightly step and hardly greying

11 hair. Having such an independent spirit she barely recognized the limitations of her age . Yet with unfail- ing positivity she graciously accepted a move to Simeon Care for the Elderly in the summer of 2001 . An illness in December marked a new phase of being cared for. Marjorie died peacefully in her sleep two weeks after Easter. Marjorie had lived so much in and through music . Perhaps this was the secret of her seeming so often uplifted and carried along by life . Part of a Haydn so- nata was played at her funeral, its varying moods ex- pressing the interweaving of earnestness and lightness in Marjorie, ending with the gentleness of her passing . Of Marjorie's ninety-four years she had been con- nected with Camphill for almost fifty of them . In all her gratitude for life, the most outspoken was her deep appreciation for Camphill .

Marga Schnell, Camphill School, Aberdeen

hen Marjorie's daughter Julia was born in 1948 suffering from cerebral palsy and the only ad- viceW she got was, 'forget her, she will anyway only reach the age of three', then Marjorie put on her ar- mour of 'hope, faith and trust' . She took Julia to many specialists but was only told more or less the same until she met Dr. Karl König a couple of years later. In him she met someone who saw her child as a tod- dler, a human being with a handicap, and not the other way round . As well as this recognition, he also offered care and even education once the child was at the appropriate age . This was the turning point for the family, and especially for Marjorie . It was the be- ginning from which she accompanied not only the de- velopment of Julia through out her school life at Thornbury, her youth and adulthood in Camphill Scot- land, where Julia reached the age of 38, but also that of many children with disability, and their parents . Marjorie's keen interest and outstanding ability to reach out to anyone and everyone, made her the focus of attention whenever she turned up for a visit . She gave advice willingly and sensitively, a listening ear to other parents, sharing freely the experiences of joy and despair she had with her own daughter. During parent interviews at her home in London, she looked after the children - a testing task which she took in her stride . The parents of other pupils remained the focal point of her life . In her early eighties she participated in the parents, social workers or other official . Often this first seminar for parents and contributed throughout brought about a change in their attitude . the course of eight long weekends over two years . Many of us co-workers were able to relish Marjorie's Marjorie's keen interest was equally directed to the hospitality. To visit the Studio for a shorter or longer Camphill philosophy and ethos and she tried to learn time turned out to be a feast of culture, joy and relaxa- as much as possible about this . Participation in the tion during which each person felt uniquely attended yearly festivals gave a starting point for deepening her to. Young and old felt welcome and at ease . understanding of what stands behind Camphill ideals . Marjorie touched and influenced many of us, shar- Later on, when she had made St . Devenick's in Murtle ing freely her life experiences and her joy for the cul- Estate her permanent home, she did not miss any lec- ture of the 20th century. She was so close to many of us tures, talks, concerts or plays . Her outlook on these 'Camphillers', but she never used the 'we', always re- experiences remained positive, as she seldom voiced maining with the 'you' . Her free spirited nature needed disapproving questions or criticism . to remain on the 'bridge', weaving the two worlds to- Seeing Camphill throughout her life in a positive light gether and being a link of understanding for many . gave her the conviction to speak openly to reluctant Marjorie, thank you for having been who you were!

12 Lawrence Adler 7th April 1924-20'h July 2002

ur dear friend and fellow farms adjacent to the School . Law- Camphill co-worker, Lawrence rence virtually moved mountains . Adler,O died peacefully at hospital in First there was the purchasing of Hermanuson 20th July 2002 . He was the Le Roux farm, which called for born on April 7th 1924, in Czecho- a great amount of fundraising . slovakia, to German-Jewish parents Then the conception and design who had met the work of Rudolf of the workshop-complex around Steiner, in particular the biodynamic the majestic oak-tree . Then the method of Agriculture . His mother registering and establishing of the was a passionate gardener all her Village community . There fol- life, and at the end of it she collapsed lowed the negotiation with the and died on a compost-heap at Government for a comprehensive Camphill in Hermanus . loan to build three large and two Lawrence's attendance at the lo- smaller houses and the whole cal Waldorf School was brought to complex of farm-buildings for an end by the move of his parents milking, dairy, cheese-making and to South Africa just before the war . storage . Lawrence masterminded They acquired a plot of land near the entire development, which in- Johannesburg, which became one volved him in extensive personal of the first examples of successful interviews, and its successful com- BD-gardening in the country. pletion put the Farm Community Once Lawrence had finished well and truly on the map . school he took an apprenticeship in The life of this community thrived woodwork and set up a small busi- under his and Ingrid's guidance and ness making picture-frames. This was the devoted work of many co- in line with his great interest in art, and before long he workers and villagers . There was one item missing - a opened the first art gallery in Johannesburg - the Law- hall for assembly to serve both the Farm and the rence Adler Gallery. Here he displayed art for exhibi- School Communities . Lawrence poured his interest tion and for sale . He became well-known for his sense and his imagination into this project, but unfortunately of true artistry, and his gallery needed to expand . He his suggestions were felt to be unworkable and over- took on a partner, Major Fielding . and in time they ambitious . He withdrew from the fray; the task of transferred to new premises in the centre of Johannes- design and supervision was given to Wilfried Böhm, burg-re-named the Adler-Fielding Gallery. and this project is now nearing completion . It was During this time Lawrence was a conscientious stu- fitting that the building could already be used for his dent of anthroposophy and led several study groups . funeral service . Yet, successful as he was in the realm of art, he nur- The last 2° years in Lawrence's life were gripped by tured a deep wish to become a Waldorf teacher. In the sadness . Ingrid, who had suffered from poor health for early sixties he sold his share of the gallery and went to many years, died rather suddenly in December 1999 . train as a teacher in Hanover . After three years he joined This was a hard blow for Lawrence, and he never quite the Constantia Waldorf School and took on a class . He regained his joy in life . was very devoted to his pupils and to the school but it We can thank Lawrence for his steadfast devotion to gradually became clear that this was not his right pro- the work and ideals of Camphill, and for his loyal sup- fession . His breadth of knowledge and the intensity of port of Anthroposophia . We can be grateful for his on- his enthusiasm was overwhelming for primary-school going readiness to share what lived in him in this realm, pupils. He was advised to work with older pupils . as well as that of art . His death in the season of St . John He then joined the Camphill School for children forms a signature for his life . He was a prominent per- with special needs, where he taught adolescents and son at the height of his powers, but was ready to make generally engaged himself in the manifold activities space for others when destiny required this . He re- of this residential and therapeutic community . Here mained a very sensitive and private person, which led he met and married Ingrid Röder, a co-worker from to a degree of solitariness. A person who gave all he Germany and Camph i I l/Scotland, who shared his in- could to the task in hand, and who bore the inevitable terest in art and music and who was also an earnest setbacks and disappointments in life with dignity and student of spiritual science . This was a very support- a wry sense of humour. ive marriage for Lawrence ; he had found his soul- He leaves behind a number of plays written for festi- mate, and together they helped the centre at vals, and a manuscript for a book that may be pub- Hermanus to grow and flourish . lished in America on the etheric forces at work in The urgency for more provision for adults with spe- minerals, plants, animals and man . The far-reaching cial needs led to Lawrence's main achievement-the scope of this work shows how widely his conscious- founding of the Camphill Farm Community on the ness embraced the formative forces of the earth .

13 News from the Movement

Threefolding takes to the streets Ivan Jacobsen, Solborg, Norway

here were some who called it a scandal . Others and population is being decided by a power consor- experienced it as a revelation . But whatever one's tium which includes the World Bank, the IMF, the World views,T there's no denying that on June 24th at least Trade Organization and the EEC . 12,000 people could read the name 'Rudolf Steiner' Many of us felt that such a development had little to many for the first time-and the word 'threefolding' do with the Threefold Social Order that Rudolf Steiner almost certainly for the first time . envisioned in 1919 . Neither is it part of the Threefold This took place on the streets of Oslo where twelve awareness upon which Karl König built the Camphill co-workers from Camphill Solborg joined with 12,000 schools and villages . If for no other reason than to make demonstrators against the World Bank meetings open- this known, we should let Rudolf Steiner's name and ing in the city that day . Four of them carried a three- the word 'Threefolding' appear in contemporary situ- meter banner done by a professional sign painter . The ations . text was a bit obscure-one might say, purposely . Run- Early this summer when the press announced plans ning the full width of the banner in 40 cm. letters was for a large protest demonstration coinciding with the the name 'Rudolf Steiner', followed by 'stood for World Bank meetings, several of us at Camphill Solborg Threefolding' . A good deal of thought lay behind this saw an opportunity. Here was an international stage text. It was essential to get Steiner's name and threefolding where Steiner's name and the word Threefolding would on the same banner without being 'for' or 'against' any- simply have to appear. Tremendous things were hap- thing. Our purpose was to get as many people as possi- pening out in the world, and if anthroposophy was to ble to ask the questions we soon heard around us . play a part in forming them, action would have to be- Thousands asked 'Who is Rudolf Steiner?' Even more gin supplanting words . asked, 'What is Threefolding, and what does it all have It was then that the thought of actually taking part in to do with a protest march against the World Bank and such a demonstration with a banner began to form . Globalization?' Two of us attended a meeting of ATTAK, one of the For those interested in learning howThreefolding could organizations arranging the demonstration, to get an have any connection with this protest march, there were impression of the general mood and to make sure our 960 handbills, distributed along the way. Here we ex- Steiner banner would be welcome . We were impressed plained that while it was too late to stop globalization, by the assembly of young people, their way of think- it could be reshaped to help those living in poverty, pri- ing, and their determination to avoid violence . Com- marily in the Third World . This reshaping could take ing home, I can remember saying, 'This will be a place by utilizing the immense resources latent in peaceful demonstration' . But there was no way of Threefolding's'Free Spiritual Life' sector, and pitting them knowing . In Genoa, Prague, Gothenburg and, not least, against the power of the state on the one hand, and Seattle, small groups of professional trouble-makers had international business on the other. turned peaceful demonstrations into riots . And if past Much of this reflected the thoughts of , experience was to be an indication, Oslo could very the Manila-based sociologist and anthroposophist who well follow suit. For weeks, the media had been drum- had held a lecture in the Oslo Society earlier this year. ming up the prospect of violence . There were interviews With the lecture and his book Sharing Globalization, with the chief of police who was calling in reserves from Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding, a mighty most of southern Norway, purchasing new riot gear and picture had begun to emerge . He called our attention talking of investing in water cannons . 'We'd be foolish', to the millions of idealists supporting thousands of var- he said 'if we didn't prepare in this way' . ied organizations that have launched protest actions At one point, those interested in taking part had dwin- in the United States and Europe . Seemingly, they have dled to three and there was talk of dropping the whole little in common . In truth, they have a world in com- thing. 'Too dangerous', many advised, 'and would it mon . None are there out of self-interest . Their mem- be right to have Steiner's name associated with such bers are committed to improving the lot of their turmoil?' Calls to leading members of the Anthro- neighbours in one way or the other. Joan Alnor, secre- posophical Society proved reassuring, however. 'Go tary general of the U .S . Anthroposophical Society, ahead and good luck', said one, while another assured maintains that 10% of her country's citizens are thus us that it was 'good to discover that there were still engaged . Perlas asks us to widen the sphere of the Free some bone-hard anti-capitalists in the Society' . When Spiritual Life to include all such forms of what he calls there were finally four solid young men to bear the 'cultural creators'-or in today's terminology 'civil so- banner, we decided to go ahead . And in a surprisingly ciety' . This resource has yet to be mobilized . short time others followed . When we set out on the In today's process known as 'elite globalization' only afternoon of the 24th, there were 12 Solborg coworkers two sectors of the Threefold pattern are involved : the to relieve each other as banner bearers. state and international business . That part of the Free The demonstration proceeded without a sign of vio- Spiritual Life known as Civil Society has been pushed lence. Aside from three mounted police leading the aside and the fate of a large part of the globe's area march, there was hardly a policeman to be seen . Not

14 to be seen, however, were 2500 police in full riot gear sciously into the periphery. There, in the broadened and at the ready, in a sheltered area not far from the Free Spiritual Life, they must learn to know the needs city center. Fortunately, they had little to do that day . and the language in order to help those whose con- What conclusions can be drawn from these dramatic cept of the spirit may be limited to a true concern for hours in Oslo? I believe it would be wrong to expect the welfare of their neighbours . In these dark times, immediate results . This was merely a first timid step in we must learn to recognize and join with the spirit a process that can bear fruit years from now-provided wherever we find it . we carry on . We must learn to move with others That day in Oslo, we could feel that there was some- through areas of evil without losing our identity-to thing vibrant and vital living around us . And there was become familiar with the negative beings representing satisfaction in learning from Oslo's Aftenposten the next human shortcomings that disturb Uriel's gaze-as de- day that the peaceful demonstration was the largest scribed in Steiner's Saint John's Imagination . For ever held in Norway, motivated not by self interest but anthroposophists, this can mean that while the bas- 'by an interest in the welfare of others' . tions of Waldorf Schools, the Society, the Sections, all I van has spent continue their work, other members must move con- a lifetime pioneering Camphill's work in Scandinavia .

Camphill School Community Brachenreuthe commemorates the victims of the air tragedy of ist July 2002 Bruno Wegm tiller

n Monday, 1 St July, at 1 p .m ., in the skies over for survivors in that night, have created a very beautiful Lake Constance two aeroplanes-a Boeing 757- place of commemoration, which has meantime been 200O freight plane of the fleet of the DHL delivery visited by very many people . service and aTupolev 154M of the Bashkirian Airlines Our best thoughts and wishes go out particularly to collided at an altitude of 12 000 metres . 71 people the grieving parents and relatives, to whom we offer 49 schoolchildren and 22 adults-died . The wreckage our deepest commiseration . On Thursday, 4th July 2002, was strewn over a radius of 30 km . they came to the site-screened off from the public Miraculously the children and co-workers of of their loved ones' deaths . The following is an excerpt Brachenreuthe as well as the inhabitants of Owingen, from the report by Ludmilla Petrovskaja, journalist from Taisersdorf, Uberlingen and the surrounding area re- Bashinform, the state news agency of the Republic of mained unhurt . Only 150 metres away from the near- Bashkortostan : est house in Brachenreuthe the tail and three engines 4.30 p.m. The bus leaves Uberlingen for the tiny vil- of the Tupolev 154 crashed into the earth, and the mid- lage of Brachenreuthe where the wreckage of the section, in which many of the children met their death, TU-154 lies . A heavy silence fills the bus . All antici- a little further to the south . At the moment of the colli- pate the unavoidable horror. Then-sobbing, groans . sion many people-also in Brachenreuthe-were still The tail of the fallen plane appears in the distance . up and witnessed this terrible scene . The images of that Everything is cordoned off by the police . Several night made a deep impression on all those who saw dozen journalists from all over the world are kept at them . Fortunately, most of the children in our care slept a distance of half a kilometre . Pieces of wreckage are and were only awakened later by the sound of the lying not far from the road, in a peacefully breeze- search helicopters overhead . blown, sunny field of rye . The tail section, weighing Many people were already at the site of the flaming several tons, had obviously broken off at the welding wreckage, down by the elm tree, when the fire brigade seam on impact and lay some yards off. Pieces of and rescue services arrived. They looked for survivors, metal, piping and wire are strewn all over the field . A only to find that the victims were beyond all help . The nightmarish feeling takes over-this can't be real, frustration of not being able to help, the 'helplessness', that's not us, that's not our aeroplane, our children is something which was frequently described in the af- didn't die here. . . the parents and relatives move for- termath and was one of the hardest experiences of that ward slowly in a funeral procession . . .Their collec- night to cope with . Some people had called out into tive and ever more desperate sobbing turns into a the night: 'Is anyone there! . . . Is anyone there!' -they heartrending cry. received no answer, heard nothing but silence . 'Mybaby!'A mother, arms outstretched, throws her- Immediately after the accident we arranged a Room self on a twisted and dented pipe. 'My child . . . my of Silent Remembrance in the little hall in Erigena lifeblood . . . what has become of you? How shall I House . In this room the paintings and gifts from our live without you? Why have they taken you away children for the children from Bashkirian are collected . from me? What did you do wrong?' The words are Here too is a book of condolence, which we will send lost in sobs and there is no more strength left to bear to the bereaved parents and relatives . Also the cards such grief. Everybody is weeping . But it's not just bearing the names of those who died, and a rose for weeping, it's a soul-tearing cry towards heaven . The each one, used in the official mourning ceremony con- parents are crying, with their arms around each other ducted by the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, have for support, strong men are crying, women are fall- their place in this room . ing on their knees and stretching their arms towards On Brachenreuthe's East Meadow, with its view of the charred interior of the plane. The lips of the po- Lake Constance, young co-workers who had searched licemen and women and the rescue people are quiv-

15 tragedy, broadcast on every channel, would prove to be simply pictures. But now the merciless reality makes a mockery of that hope . A profound and wordless mourning commences . Wreaths-from the parents, from the government of Baden- Württem -berg, from the government of Bashkortostan-are laid next to the flowers. On the same spot a Moslem service of remembrance is held, followed by an Orthodox mass . Many people take a handful of earth, in little bags, with them, oth- ers pick up pieces of the metal which a cruel fate had so lavishly strewn over the earth of Baden- Württemberg. Another plucks ears of the rye which had perhaps seen the three fireballs fly through the sky . . . beneath my feet I notice a piece of melted metal which looks like a teardrop . The plane had ering they can't hold back their tears either, even wept, heaven had wept. . . though they don't understand Russian . My God, what That's how human beings are; the pain of even the kind of heart must one have to be able to bear such worst experiences has its limits . After seeing the ac- torment of the soul! tual wreckage many people felt relieved. If only for 'Igorjok! Igorjok! Igorjoscha. . . , a mother, walking this reason it was worth the journey. It was also im- around the heaps of metal, calls her son ; her face is portant to feel that we weren't alone with our pain . dark from pain . 'Where are you, where? My boy, my It is said that only in misfortune does one find out son, my little son . . . what is left of you, my darling who one's true friends are . The German people had Igor?. . .' taken our pain so to heart that we felt ourselves un- 'Why have you left us, you our breadwinner?' the derstood and accepted. As soon as news of the crash wife of a dead crew member stammers incoherently, spread, countless people called the police and res- 'We have to raise our son, our daughter is getting ready cue services, local authorities and the Red Cross to for the university. How shall I manage alone?' offer their help . The charred metal is covered with flowers . Some- (Translation from Russian to German : Anja Romanenko, one had brought playthings, and these funny garish Sergei Boikov,Translation from German to English : Luke little soft toys look somewhat bizarre amid the whole Barr, Fiona Zahn) chaos. Bit by bit a numbness takes over. What's the At certain moments in life we are all brought to a use of words? Everything is clear. Here it is, the worst halt for a while . July 1St was such a moment . During has happened. One can see how it was and can't do this 'halt' the equilibrium of our daily routine is upset anything about it. Many had harboured secret hopes and new ways of thinking, feeling and acting suddenly that, when they came here to this place, everything open up. What will result from this opening we don't would prove to be different from what they had im- yet know. All we can do is to try to heed it and to strive agined far away in Russia . The awful images of the to preserve our now more sensitive perception .

30 Years Duffcarrig Jens-Peter Linde, Duffcarrig

n the year of Dr. Königs centenary we celebrated 30 of our community as we could for a cultural week in years of Duffcarrig. We marked the actual date, 2 nd the middle of August . February, with 30 earth candles showing the constel- Every morning we worked to lay down mosaic panels lation of the zodiac, the planets and a few fixed stars in the herb garden . Some of these were made with stones for orientation . We noted specifically the position of from the beach, and some were brought by visitors from Saturn in Taurus . He circles the sun in 30 years, and other centres . The panels were joined by interlinking we felt that his wisdom-filled brooding linked with the mosaic patterns and thus the whole became an image earthly will of the bull has quite some influence on life of how each individual is an integral part of a village in Duffcarrig. and how the villages reach out to each other to become We wanted to mark this 30th anniversary mindful of a region . the baptism of the 30-year-old Jesus . We wanted to A high point was a conversation in which we tried to welcome the Spirit of Duffcarrig in a conscious way, remember the 'olden times' with all the experience realising that, just as no human being can continue to and maturity of '30 years later' . Remembering friends rely on the forces of youth, neither can a community ; who are now dispersed all over the earth, and espe- it needs the conscious development of an inner open- cially those who look down upon us from the further ness which can meet with outer, baptismal, grace . reaches of the afterlife, we tried to raise the treasures To help us make this new step - and at the same time resting in our hearts . It was a remarkable session, not so to say Thankyou to those who had linked their destiny much because of what was said, but how it was said . with Duffcarrig-we invited as many former members Even young, new co-workers, only a few weeks with us,

16 us, could divine how precious people's experiences in go forward and be victorious in outer history. But an- Duffcarrig have become in their evolving biography . other fundamental idea is that Camphill should be the This was also seen as a cue for the further develop- 'forerunners of forerunners' . The first image certainly ment of Duffcarrig . People like Mervin and Dorothy sits well with Duffcarrig, but how can we become at who pioneered the community have become older and the same time preservers and forerunners? cannot work as much as before . But how they do what Perhaps it is just this : the rediscovery of how we do they can still do may become an example and a source what we do . It has been at the core of Camphill since of satisfaction . Thus community life can become a the beginning, but is perhaps covered up by outer at- 'mosaic' of many different colours : a piece of art. tempts at 'quality control', coupled with the separa- Art is not always immediately accessible . During this tion of the soul-forces which we also experience . If we cultural week we could practise our perceptivity in can regain the devotional attitude which makes every- this respect . We started every morning with the prayer thing we do into a piece of art, we can 'always do of St. Francis, saying it line by line in groups around what we like, because we like what we do' . the circle : only after the votive candles in the hands of Visitors had come from far and wide, and it was not the previous group were lit could the next line be said . easy for them to say, why they had come . Perhaps this This always took some time and the impatient ones week was for them as well as for us a confirmation of among us immediately felt that this was a very 'satur- our calling, to be truly human . The week was framed nine' process . But when we began to listen to how the by the Act of Consecration of Man and the Festival of words could reverberate in us in a meditative way, and Offering. The grace of communion can consecrate our to see how each light shone individually-then we being and with it our doing . This doing can become became a 'pentecostal' mosaic of flames : Concept Art! an offering in return, a festival, where history and fu- One of the important concepts for Camphill is the ture meet, anniversary and birthday, pavement and being of Iphigenia . She had to live in seclusion and picture . cultivate esoteric mysteries so that the Greek spirit could Jens-Peter is a priest of The Christian Community .

Joan Tallo - 80 Years John Tallo, Camphill Schools, Aberdeen, Scotland

n 19th September, Joan celebrated a century living and working for her 80th birthday. Many people Camphill . To begin with, Gabor had willO know Joan as one of the Company more tangible work, in that he, as the Secretaries, together with Anne Harris, architect, took on to design and build of the Camph i I I Village Trust . For many the Camphill Hall together with Karl years this was her public face . What König. However, in 1960, after taking was not always so visible were the on the task of Company Secretary for countless hours spent organising and the CVT and moving to Harley Street negotiating with authorities . For nearly in London, Joan became more and 40 years she was also a houseparent more involved with the legal side of in Delrow, Botton and the Grange, be- the CVT. In 1968 the family moved to fore ending her houseparenting life, Botton, where Joan took on new tasks again in Delrow. Just a few years be- as well as keeping many of her old fore her stroke, four years ago, she re- ones. In 1976 she and Gabor moved tired to a small flat . The last four years to the Grange, as the milder climate she has spent in Simeon Houses . was easier for Gabor. After his death Joan came to Camphill with her fam- in 1978, Joan moved back to Delrow, ily in 1958 from her native South Af- where she lived until her last move to rica. She and her husband Gabor had Simeon Houses in Aberdeen . become close friends of Karl König Joan is a perfectionist! She does not when he visited South Africa a year or tolerate things badly done . Many will two before . This was a major change have felt the sharp edge of her tongue for Joan and her family. I remember at times, but will also remember words well having to say goodbye to every- of encouragement and appreciation at thing we knew and setting out on a the appropriate moment . journey into the unknown . Joan had Four years ago Joan suffered a stroke never been in Europe, so for her also it while on holiday in Tunisia . This left was a journey into the unknown, although as a second her with damaged sight and not able to walk very well . generation South African, she still had family in the She has for the last four years kept everyone on their UK. After staying a couple of weeks with her aunt Doris toes in Simeon . in Guildford, Surrey, we took the Flying Scotsman to It is with these thoughts that I, also on behalf of my Aberdeen, arriving on a cold, windy and wet Novem- sister, together with her grandchildren and great-grand- ber evening, to be met by . Little did we children, wish my mother all the best on reaching this realise it then, but this was to be the start of nearly half milestone in her life .

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s it possible to be young yet old? And can one stand so firmly in the midst of the stream To be endlessly creative and yet thorough in of life and yet be absolutely faithful to each moment attending to detail? of birth and death? To be joyful and yet still so earnest? Can one be so full of reverence and spirituality and To have such vast insight and knowledge and yet yet utterly practical? (Even if one does need help in retain child-like innocence? organization .) Is it possible to be masterly in speaking to The answer is uniquely and resoundingly-Yes! international, professional groups on different specialized topics, and yet be homely, with simple We would not have thought it possible but CAL you enjoyments, aspirations have shown us that it can be done . . .and done well and doubts? with natural grace . Is it possible to have the harmony of the spheres You have touched and enriched so many with your coursing through you, music dripping from your music insights, knowledge and humanity . pen, care for others radiating from warm palms and Threescore years and ten . . .a mythical age for some- still believe one who is both a dear friend as well as a Camphill that more must be done? legend-during-life . Is it possible to have the fire and vision of a choleric, In offering you congratulations and gratitude Christof- the devotion of a melancholic, the faith of a Andreas, I am sure I speak for everyone who has ever phlegmatic and still keep that bounce in the step? sung a 'Bell' or 'Birthday' song or needed to under- Is it possible to have the sensitive hands of a lyre stand and celebrate the coming or passing of a life player that are yet firm and strong for carpenter's within our movement . tools? Elizabeth Howe, Camphill Community, California

Books Hans Schauder, Vienna my Home Two events in his life had a particularly profound effect Recollections collected and recorded by Horst on Hans . Firstly that he was exiled from Vienna and Werner Franke secondly the breakdown of his relationship with Dr. Kön ig who was his mentor and with whom he was Privately published by A athe Dawson, 25 deeply connected . I once discussed with a wise priest, Craighouse Terrace, Edinburgh EH 10 5CH the painful failures between people that lead to some Also available from Camphill Bookshop, Aberdeen people not being able to stay in a community . He f 12+pp. told me that the Archangel Michael has a very rough Reviewed by Deborah Ravetz, Stuttgart way of getting people to the place they need to be . Perhaps one can see this particularly well in the case his book is the story of Hans Schauder as told by his of Hans' biography. Through this painful rift Hans was friend Horst Werner Franke . This is not an autobi- instrumental in beginning Garvald . He then found his ographyT but a biography written by a friend using many way to a kind of work which was absolutely in tune taped conversations . For those who may not have with his gentle and artistic nature and which is also known of him, Hans Schauder and his wife Lisl were part of the silent stream of renewal to which Camph ill part of the original youth group in Vienna that met belongs . under the guidance of Dr König . They were also part I met Hans in my early thirties. I went to see him to of the founding of the Camphill Communities . Hans thank him for his remarkable book, Conversations on and his wife left Camphill in 1944 and with others Counselling. I found he was a person with an exquisite founded the Garvald Community in Edinburgh . After tact and an unforced gift of loving interest . Hans in- a time of illness it became clear that community was spired confidence because he acknowledged his not the appropriate setting for Hans and List's work wounds . In this sense his woundedness became a pos- and they moved to Edinburgh . There Lisl supported sibility to see the other, to become a healer . He never the family while Hans recovered and found his way to pretended he was invincible but he also never behaved the work that was to be his true gift and contribution, badly or unfairly because he had suffered . that of counsellor and eventually much sought-after This quality of acknowledging his own wounds makes teacher of counsellors . this book feel both intimate and unguarded . This qual- The first part of the book describes Hans' youth in ity of unguardedness exposes both Hans and the per- Vienna, his family and school and his meetings with sonalities with whom he worked and struggled . The people who were to be important for the whole of his life of Hans Schauder and his fellow co-workers bore life. There he met his beloved wife and there he met incredible fruits . These achievements are, I believe, Dr König. It describes his medical training, the cafe strong enough for us to be able to look without fear at society, the love of opera and the cold and terrible their weaknesses alongside their strengths . I read this pall of National Socialism . It goes on to describe Hans book as if I was being given a confidence, as if I were escape to Switzerland and his struggle to complete his being allowed to know the whole story, pain and mis- medical training as well as the early beginnings of understanding and all . It is the task of every human Camphill and the time on the Isle of Man . being to find out who they are and what they came to

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the earth for. We cannot do this without struggling with Some might ask 'Why is such an internationally signifi- each other. In this sense, although the book tells us cant book being published by a small South African pub- painful things, they are not destructive but human and lisher?' The answer is that it just happened that way. The th real and surely recognisable to anyone who has sin- spur to making the translation was when, after the 11 cerely tried to work with other people in a deep way . September disaster last year, Ch ristoph Jensen stood What shines out of the book most is the sense of strug- outside the closed Meditation Room in the UN build- gles overcome, work realized and wonder at the real- ing in New York, which had been master-minded by ity and meaning of both joy and sorrow . This book is Dag Hammarskjöld, and was refused access 'on secu- another part of the whole that we perceive when we rity grounds' . Reading between the lines, it must have read the life stories of all those people who were con- been quite a lively occasion given Christoph's short nected with each other in Vienna and who spent their fuse when told, particularly by officialdom, that he is lives upholding the image of man . not allowed to do something that he feels he should Deborah is an artist and writer do. However, what it did was to stiffen his resolve to and the previous editor of Camphill Correspondence . translate Stephan Mögle-Stadel's book about Ham- marskjöld into English . . This book is the result, and is a major contribution to spiritually-orientated literature, Dag Hammarskjöld a fact recognised in Germany, where the Urachhaus Visionary for the Future of Humanity German version is now in its third edition . By Stephan Mögle-Stadel Translated by Christoph Jensen and Nicholas Lee letter Novalis Press, 2002 Dear Editor, Reviewed by Nicholas Lee The last Camphill Correspondence was a fine and wor- thy issue to mark the Centenary of Dr . Karl König. Well librarian faced with the task of cataloguing this done. . .and many thanks to all concerned . That it also book would unhesitatingly assign it to 'Biography', included the many glowing tributes for the life of butA this would only tell part of the story . Certainly, it is Barbara Lipsker was a happy coincidence . a biography in the conventional sense of this extraor- Readers may like to know that when I phoned to or- dinary man who was the Secretary-General of the der a dozen extra copies, I heard a special extra print United Nations at one of the most significant and tur- run had been done for this issue . bulent times of its history, but two things about it are I would also like to mention two events in Ireland new. The first is that it confirms that, based on revela- that can be seen in recognition of the Centenary : tions of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Tuesday 19th November-The Camphill Celtic Lyre Commission, Dag Hammarskjöld was indeed mur- Orchestra, Celebration Concert in the National Con- dered, as was widely suspected at the time, but never cert Hall, Dublin . Tuesday 7th-Friday 10th January proved, and that South African security services played 2003,The NewYearAssembly . . .in Ireland at Ballytobin's a part in it. The second is that, behind the public facade New Hall 'Castalia' with the support and involvement of this high-level, international civil servant, there ex- of the Irish Region as a whole . isted a mystic and visionary of a high spiritual calibre. If you would like to know more about these events, In fact, the words 'high initiate' come unbidden to please contact your friends in Ireland! mind . We know this from his own book, largely in With good wishes, John Nixon diary and journal form, which was published posthu- Available by November a fully illustrated book of the mously. The title of his book in Swedish is Vägmärken, Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily but when translated into English by W .H .Auden, was a play by Hans van der Stok based on Goethe's Fairytale . given the rather limp English title Markings. The Swed- The publication contains the text and music accompanied by full ish original title would have been better translated as colour photographs of a recent production of the play in Cairnlee 'Signs along the Way', but as Auden was not familiar Community, Aberdeen . Also included is a talk given by Bob Wood- ward at the New Year's Assembly on January, 7-11, 2001 in with the Swedish language, the book was probably Thornbury. translated into English from the German translation This publication will be initially laser printed, spiral bound of ap- never a particularly satisfactory way of going about it . proximately 40 pages . The estimated cost will be around £20 .00 . What Stephan Mögle-Stadel has done with this book The layout will allow play copies to be made . Please contact David Newbatt at Cairnlee House 867251 or 861583 is to interweave Hammarskjöld's conventional biogra- phy with his spiritual odyssey, against a background of DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD evolving human spiritual consciousness . Many biog- Visionary for the Future of Humanity raphies can be of absorbing interest where they shed with a foreword by UN Secretary General KOFI ANNAN and light on the lives of great people, but those of highest an accompanying letter by the late YEHUDI MENUHIN value are those that point a way into the future, and 148 x 210mm 192pp Softback cover. ISBN 0-9584369-4-0 that is this book's greatest achievement, particularly at Illustrated with 36 black and white illustrations a time when many people, particularly those in the US$ 19 .50 + $10 postage and packaging (airmail) . anthroposophical movement, are casting a critical eye South African Price R 195 .00 + R20 postage and packaging on their own spiritual development, and where it The Novalis Press, P0 Box 53090, Rosmead Avenue, should go from here . It follows Hammarskjöld's own Kenilworth 7745 Wynberg 7800, Cape Town, South Africa thinking in providing 'signs along the way' for those Tel . +27 021 797 1857 Fax +27 0217610057 able to understand, interpret and apply them . As such, e-mail to order the book : anne-lise@novalis .org .za it is a book of unique value . Website :httpalwww.novalis .org .za

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The Catacombs «zie 1r1Qta norphosen Paintings by Greg Tricker. Text byJohannes Steuck 1'E' ) Qs Kreuzes a Vox Humana Press, Gloucestershire 2002 arc Ilai4 von Rtu off Stgintrj' ISBN 0-9542873-0-4 x SevIenkalenöer Review by Udo Steuck, Mourne Grange, ~Q,, •K ARL KÖN14 Northern Ireland The Metamorphosis of the Cross according to Rudolf Steiner's his book is like a precious jewel-the artwork by Greg Tricker-set in a golden framework-the ex- Calendar of the Soul tensiveT introduction by Johannes Steuck. Holding the book in my hands for the first time I is published as loose leaf folder in size 26 x 21, containing thought: Well, the catacombs by GregTricker; would I 13 single sheets, introduction and drawing . The verses are in not rather enjoy looking at pictures of the original paint- Karl Königs handwriting-with supplements in eight lan- ings in all their incompleteness, defectiveness, rather guages : German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish, Nor- wegian and Russian . than something 'made up' in their style. So when later I looked at pictures in Alfred Heidenreich's The Cata- The folder can be obtained at the price of Euro 24 .- or in combs, I was struck by the wonderful expressions in equivalent currency. Orders to : some of the faces and the elegance of people's bear- 'Od it a' Kunst and Kul tur ings . But to be honest, not all of the paintings are grand . (Postfach 1414) I found some of them rather inartistic and not even Am Münsterplatz 11 very significant. D-88662 Überlingen/Bodensee And now to the artwork by Greg Tricker. Here every- A long expected Publication thing is very artistic and of value . It is incredible how a Dr. Karl König s coloured drawings to the 'Calendar of the modern artist can connect himself so deeply with this Soul' by Rudolf Steiner are now available as colour reproduc- early Christian era, its beliefs, its symbols and its mys- tions . There is a series of 13 round medallions of 70 mm in teries . His art brings to life something of the imme- diameter, printed as centre pieces around which the corre- diacy and purity of early Christian fellowship . sponding four verses are arranged . The order and relation of The introduction by Johannes Steuck is a worthy prel- the verses toward each other is expressed through circle, cross ude to Greg Tricker's work . It is done with masterly and lemniscate-leading on the 'clockface' of the year not insight and clarity. His World background to Christian- only from verse to verse, but also to groups of four . ity and the Catacombs is wisely subdivided into the Thirteen quartets result-with the respective tenor voice of following chapters : The Catacombs, Location, Images, the leading verse, accompanied by soprano, alto and bari- Divine Nature and The Paintings. This makes it easy to tone . Thirteen times thus resounds the song of the soul and follow and to appreciate what the book has to offer . the earth, changing throughout the year and singing of the One wishes that this jewel of a book would find its resurrecting power of the Cross . way into many libraries and also to anybody who feels This calendar of the soul and of nature can bring awareness in a twofold way : firstly, the experience of outer nature-and connected to early Christianity and who is struggling secondly, the perception of the soul's life within the events of for true Christian values in our time . nature during the course of the year. GÜNTHER LEHR Available from: G.K.Tricker, The Cottage, Millbottom, Nailsworth, GL6 OLA, tel : +44(0)1453 834975 £17.50 each+p&p (f3 in UK, £5 overseas, per copy) Udo Steuck has lived in Camphill THE CALYX for many years, working as a farmer and later as a priest of The Christian Community. With Peaceful HOME/or CHRISTMAS surroundings Stories for Young and Old to... Pearl S . Buck, Ruth Sawyer, Jack Schaefer, B . H . Chute, and others . £10.00 £8.00 ISBN 0-87486-924-2 336 pages, softcover ...Relax They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried eve- nings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, when there was ...Review time for a story . . .Now, with this collection, parents and grandparents can keep the story telling tradition aliv ...Read just From tales of the miraculous, such as Ernst Wiechert's'Grandfather's Stories', to per- sonal discoveries of love, such as Pearl S . Buck's `Christmas Day in the Morning', and ...Recuperate in diverse settings from Siberia to Cuba, each story explores and awakens another dimension of the season . Illustrated with evocative woodblock prints, this constellation ...Rest. of stories provides nourishment for the human heart, the true home for Christmas . DANIEL C . 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Kaspar Community, Finland Garvald West Linton Opportunities in a vibrant urban community We are looking for co-workers to join us! is situated 20 miles south of Edinburgh in a rural Are you interested in joining a vibrant Camphill We (a large family) are starting a residential location. It is a residential community providing Community in an urban setting? Camphill Milton and day activity place with individuals who residential and day care on Rudolf Steiner prin- Keynes Community is looking for people with have a special destiny. We are located in eastern ciples for adults with learning disabilities . Due to enthusiasm and commitment who are looking Finland, embedded in beautiful natural surround- the development of a model of 52 week care, for a new challenge . ings. Cultural and other activities with local peo- we have a number of new vacancies for the The community comprises about 45 residents ple play an important part in our initiative . following positions: with learning difficulties who live together with We are looking for co-workers; experience and • Deputy Manager over 25 co-workers and families, many of whom knowledge of agriculture and/or art therapy • Deputy Senior Care Staff come from a wide variety of countries. We have would be helpful. • Residential Care Staff 8 houses, 6 workshops, 2 gardens; spread be- Please contact: Kimmo and Marja Koskela, It is possible for Garvald to consider these posi- tween two estates separated by a 15 minute walk. Alatalontiz 2, FIN-88530, Paakki . tions in terms of live in or live out . For further At Pennyland, the more urban, we have a two Tel/fax: (358) 86640003 information on any of these posts, please contact acre garden together with a weavery and a work- Email: kajsteinerkoulu@suomi24 .fi the undernoted indicating what position you are shop that refurbishes hand tools that are sent to interested in and whether or not it is residential developing countries. Willen is our own 10 acre Camphill Village Kimberton Hills or not residential. estate with 5 houses, market garden, bakery, food is a 450-acre estate that includes a Biodynamic The Manager, Garvald, West Linton, processing unit, and a cafe which opens to the dairy farm, garden, herb garden, orchard, bak- Scottish Borders, EH46 7HJ public. A theatre/hall is being built to house our ery, coffee shop, craft workshops and 17 house- Tel : 01968 682211, Fax : 01968 682611 active drama group, alongside a small kinder- holds. We are located 45 minutes NW of Phila- e -mail : office@garvaldwest .co .u k garten . delphia, PA in the hills of Chester County. Camphill is based on the ideas of RudolfSteiner Our community offers work in our craft work- William Blake House and we celebrate the Christian festivals, and oth- shops, family households and on the land. Dear friends, we are a new community, very much ers, throughout the year, and an anthroposophical Currently, we have need of the following : in its exciting, pioneering phase, and located in study group meets fortnightly. • Long and short-term co-workers with a the beautiful rolling countryside of Northampton- We are attempting to find new ways of living special interest in the care of retired co- shire. The vision is that homelife is centred around and working together and do not pay ourselves workers and older people who are small households, whilst utilising local facilities salaries in the usual sense. Day to day expenses developmentally disabled. and working with other local initiatives . are covered and more permanent members op- • Short-term co-workers with a special interest We invite co-workers with varying degrees of erate a 'trust money' system . in working on our Biodynamic Dairy Farm experience and expertise to strengthen our foun- If you are interested by this way of life and • Experienced Biodynamic gardener to run a dation and prepare for the future, as a number of feel you could contribute in the running of one 2-acre vegetable garden souls are already approaching us . of our houses or workshops, please contact : • Long-term co-worker with administrative If you are interested in being involved with a Carol van Eeden, Camphill Milton Keynes skills in finance . new challenge and would like to discuss this Community, Japonica Lane, Willen Park South, Contact: further, then please contact us : Milton Keynes MK15 9JY Personal Forum, Camphill Village Kimberton Tuija and Clive Denby tel : 01908 235000, fax : 01908 235606, Hills, PO Box 155, Kimberton, PA 19442 William Blake House, Farm Cottage, e -mail : office@camphillmk .ndirect .co .u k Phone and fax : 610 935-3963 8 Milthorpe, e-mail : information@camphillkimberton .org Lois Weedon, For Sale: Gärtner Lyre TIFCowcester, Northants NN12 BPP, Big Soprano, light brown matt, undamaged case, Maison Emmanuel Tel : 01327 860412 pristine condition . (built 1973) Solid piece of 'Centre Educatif', is a life-sharing community wood on the back . Quality level I. Lovely, warm based on Anthroposophy, and born out of the Opportunity in Estonia sound. impulse of Camphill. We are approximately 50 Who wants to take on the challenge and come Proceeds are for The Christian Community . people, including 22 children, adolescents and as a FARMER OR GARDENER to Pahkla £875 (new approx. £1400) adults in need of special care, living and work- Camphilli Küla (Camphill Village) in beautiful, Contact: Paula Moraine ing together in a beautiful rural setting surrounded sunny Estonia? tel: 01224-582320 by mountains and forests, 100 km north of Mon- Several experienced villagers, cows, pigs, or e-mail: [email protected] treal. The language spoken by an international hens and 75ha land wait for the person who group of co-workers is mostly English. The sur- wants to work with them . rounding population speaks mostly French . More information : A program of expansion and social integration Katarina Seeherr, Pahkla Camphilli Küla, 79702 has started in the center of nearby Val David Prillimäe, Rapla mk ., Eesti /Estonia RI 0n0Sin Snowdonia with the establishment of two adult residences Tel . 00372 48 34449 and the building of the bakery, including a bou- Fax : 00372 48 97231 seeking new residentworkers . . . tique for Maison Emmanuel's crafts. e-mail : pahklack@hot .ee Trigonos, is a not-for-profit residential We seek co-workers-individuals or families- centre for educational courses with preferably with experience, to share responsibili- accommodation for 30 visitors . Facil- ties for our houses and/or craft workshops-gar- Tigh a'Chomainn ities include a library, studio, meeting den, small farm, pottery, weaving bakery, ceram- Are you our next Co-Worker/Co-ordinator? rooms and gallery. We have 18 acres ics, candle-making, woodwork . Even though We will have a need, in the near future, for of land with wonderful views and grow Maison Emmanuel has existed since 1982, it still experienced co-workers/co-ordinators at Tigh our own fruit and vegetables . bears certain characteristics of a pioneering com- a'Chomainn in Aberdeen, Scotland . munity. Individual initiative and enthusiasm are We are a small Camphill community, offer- We are a well-established 'going concern' and appreciated. ing a home for 5 adults with special needs, whose now need two new people to join the small daytime activity is outwith the house. resident group to carry the day-to-day man- We welcome your inquiry by letter or e-mail: agement . We specifically require people with Maison Emmanuel, 1561 Chemin Beaulne You would be joining the present co-work- enthusiasm for and experience in hosting, ca- Val Morin, Que . JOT 2R0, Canada ers in the day-to-day running of this former manse tering & kitchen management . Tel . 1-819-322-3718, Fax 1-819-322-6930 on the outskirts of Aberdeen . e -mail : m [email protected] m You would be supporting and encourag- Self-contained accommodation is available for ing the residents in all aspects of their lives . either a couple or two single people - possibly The Mount Camphill Community Our preference would be for unsalaried with children . Remuneration will include full The Mount is a community offering further edu- co-workers, in the Camphill tradition, but we would board and a modest salary . cation for young people with special needs aged also consider other applicants . 16-23 years . We are looking for families/indi- Agneta Calderwood will be able to give More information from : viduals to help take on the challenge, responsi- you more details if you contact her at: Trigonos, Plas Baladeulyn, Nantlle, bilities and rewards of our community life . Tigh a'Chomainn Camphill Caernarfon, Gwynedd . LL54 6BW 4 Please contact: Craigton Crescent Tel : 01 286 882388 Fax : 01 286 882424 Andrew McDougall, The Mount Camphill Com- Peterculter e -mail : info@trigonos .org munity, Faircrouch Lane, Wadhurst Aberdeenshire www.trigonos .org East Sussex, TN5 6PT AB 14 058 Tel : 01892 7820025, Fax: 01892 782917 Tel: (01224) 732656, Fax: (01224) 735403 Learning Inspiration Retreat e-mail : themount@camphill .clara .net E-mail: [email protected]

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