Anthroposophy worldwide What is happening in the Anthroposophical Society 7–8 /19 ■ Antroposophical Society July/August 2019 • N° 7–8 Pause for thought 2 The working of Michael and the building of communities Anthroposophical Society 1 Cultures and individuals 2 Rudolf Steiner: Love for the world 3 General Anthroposophical Society: Specialist oncology group 3 Netherlands: Thanking Jaap Sijmons 3 Austria: 2022 East-West Congress 10 Donations: Anthroposophy Worldwide 10 Correction: Iscador, not Hiscia 11 Obituary: Hartmut Haupt 11 Membership News Cultures and individuals and cultural hues, and how, on the other hand, Anthroposophy Worldwide Connecting it relies entirely and exclusively on individuals. 4 Conferences and festivals The consultations focused mainly on how this 4 Turkey: Introduction to person to person contrast is reflected in the Statutes of the An- biodynamic farming throposophical Society: how the reality of the 4 Africa: Human development Dear readers, zeitgeist and the inspirations of the School of 5 Germany: Waldorf festival Spiritual Science have to come to life through the 5 Worldwide: Waldorf history In less than thirty years a small group of anthro- principle of the 1923/1924 Christmas Conference 5 India: Waldorf impulse posophists have done impressive work in Esto- (connecting from person to person) in a kind of School of Spiritual Science nia. Thanks to their isolated but solid, effective social double-domed building, and how, in this 6 Class Lessons in English and intense efforts, eight Waldorf Schools and «most modern» society, the competence of the 7 Economic Conference/Education Section: ten kindergartens were founded, and activities School and the shared social life come together, Financial literacy emerged in the fields of special needs education, even in the Statutes. 7 Humanities Section in gb: medicine and publishing. All of these initiatives Now we are looking forward to the Mystery Healing the Wounds are closely linked to the young Anthroposophical Drama cycle that will be performed at the 7 Section for the Performing Arts: Society and also have global connections. In mid- Goetheanum in the summer and to the inten- Amwort speech school turns 10 June the European country representatives were sive Education Section conference during which 8 Section for Social Sciences et al. 8 General Anthroposophical Section able to experience this special Baltic situation Rudolf Steiner’s 1919 course on the foundations 8 Section for Social Sciences: sif Egypt 2019 during their summer meeting in Tartu. of Waldorf education can be experienced again 10 Section for the Performing Arts in its entirety after a hundred years of teaching 10 Subscription: Cultural hues and individual influences experience. Weekly journal Das Goetheanum Just a few miles from today’s east-west border to We wish you a pleasant summer | Justus Wittich Goetheanum Russia, it is interesting to come across a comment und Constanza Kaliks, Goetheanum 9 Communications: Best ngo newsroom Rudolf Steiner made in a discussion (ga 337b, 6 9 Goetheanum Publishing: September 1920), implying that the Baltic peoples are particularly karmically disposed to develop Image Welcome: Goetheanum Executive New managing director Council and European representatives arrive in 9 Goetheanum Stage: real cosmopolitan consciousness – or fall into Estonia The Mystery Dramas isolating nationalism. Forum It became tangible in this gathering how a 10 Colloquium on conspiracy theories global anthroposophical community arises on 10 Response to Heike Oberschelp the one hand from the consonance of countries Feature 12 The spiritual mission of the bees 2 | Anthroposophy Worldwide No. 7–8/19 ■ Pause For Thought Rudolf Steiner Love for the world The working of Michael and the building of communities When we seek freedom, unselfishly, when freedom becomes pure love for the action that is to be performed, then we can come Golden triangle closer to Michael. When we strive to act free- ly but act out of egoism, on the other hand, when freedom becomes pride in manifesting ourselves in our actions, then we are in We live in the age of Michael, the Archangel of danger of falling into Ahriman’s sphere. […] the Sun, and as we are exposed to the influence When we feel that we are free and close to of the oppositional powers, each of us is facing Michael, we are on the way to carry the po- wer of intellectuality into our ‹whole being›; personal, professional, social and spiritual chal- we think with the head but the heart feels lenges. At a time when humanity is crossing the thinking’s bright light or darkness; the will threshold, we are in need of spiritualized thinking, radiates out our being because the thoughts nature observation and Michaelic communities. stream in the will as intentions. We become more and more human as we become an As we cross the threshold we sense, deep in expression of the world. […] our souls, the proximity of death forces, but If we follow Michael, we cultivate love in because of this we also experience our true, Rudolf Steiner gave a few examples of this when relation to the outer world, […] then the immortal-cosmic dimension lighting up. As a he wrote about the Michael Mystery on 16 No- love for the world can radiate back to our own self, which is then able to love without result, more and more people can remember vember 1924, in ga 26, in the chapter The World- loving itself. It is on the paths of such love earlier incarnations or have concrete premoni- Thoughts in the Working of Christ and in the that our soul can find the Christ. If we stay tions and experiences of nature’s spirituality and Working of Ahriman (see quotation on page 2). close to Michael, we cultivate love in relation their own higher self. Some speak of having met Borrowing from St Paul’s Hymn to Love in the to the outer world, and, in doing so, find the relation to our inner soul world that unites the Christ. Closeness to death and the yearning first letter to the Corinthians, one could say that us with the Christ. for immortality or for spirituality are effective, clairvoyance and mystery wisdom, scholarly though still largely unknown, factors that pro- works on Michael or the «Foundation Stone of Source Rudolf Steiner, ga 26, Anthroposophi- foundly determine our lives today. Love» of the 1923–24 Christmas Conference, or cal Leading Thoughts, The World-Thoughts in even amendments to the statutes and articles the Working of Michael and in the Working Christ – helper at the threshold of Ahriman are merely «a sounding brass or a tinkling cym- Many hopes and fears are linked to this, because bal» if Michaelic thinking is without love. Love the powers of evil, too, become tangible at the completes the golden triangle of Michael’s ‹Anthroposophy Worldwide. What is hap- threshold. Rudolf Steiner said that Michael, working. pening in the Anthroposophical Society› ap- through whose being Christ reveals himself in pears monthly in German, English, French and a new spiritual form, is the great helper at the The threshold becomes bridge Spanish as a supplement to the weekly ‹Das threshold to the supersensible world. He also I am aware that original thoughts, artistic inspira- Goetheanum›. Publisher General Anthropo- said that the initiation principle should become tions or genuine religious exultation don’t appear sophical Society represented by Justus Wit- tich. Editors Sebastian Jüngel (responsible a civilization principle today. at the push of a button. Like the impulses of gen- for the German edition), Margot M. Saar Michael works in two ways: firstly, by spiri- uine, selfless love, they must be seen as a grace. (responsible for the English edition), Michael tualizing our thinking forces into free, visionary But we can wish, or strive, for love. We can con- Kranawetvogl (responsible for the Spanish edi- heart-thinking, a process in which feeling and sciously struggle for selfless love, even if we fail tion), Jean Pierre Ablard and Anselme Killian will are also transformed; and secondly by spiri- again and again. And, yes, we can pray for it. As a (French edition; coordinator: Louis Defèche). tualizing our view of nature. Since true anthro- preliminary step on the way to love we can form Proofreader for the English edition: Amadeus posophy is a synthesis of science, art and religion, genuine Michael communities by being deeply Bodenstein. Address Anthroposophy World- wide, po Box, 4143 Dornach, Switzerland, the arts and religious experience are included in accepting of others who may think differently. fax +41 61 706 4465, aww@dasgoetheanum. this transformative process. 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Imagine, in all earnestness, a you directly, we ask for a donation to cover this points us to the third side of the triangle, rebirth of the Anthroposophical Society out of costs. Printed by Birkäuser + gbc, 4153 Rein- the base, which is related to our co-existence as the spirit of love. A utopian dream? | Mario Betti, ach, Switzerland.