Austrian-born philosopher, founder of Anthroposophy, central figure of this entire reading. Born February 27, 1861 in Kraljevec / Donji Kraljevec on the Mur Island — Croatian-populated, Hungarian-administered. Steiner's "border-crosser" identity (his own term) was constituted by daily crossing of the Cisleithania-Transleithania border 1872-79; his mother Franziska reportedly had Slavic blood. The Mitteleuropa multi-ethnic experience was his lived starting point. (Claims WiU-1-004, WiU-1-005.)
as continuing his work in the etheric world. The five figures are not independent personae but five facets of one biography.Ben-Aharon at the Bavarian legation Berlin August 1917; (3) the supersensible historian (Karmic Relationships GA 235-240, 1924) of the cosmic School of Michael and the post-1879 ahrimanic-Michaelic dialectic; (4) the founder of the Anthroposophical Society and School of Spiritual Science (Christmas Foundation Conference 1923-24); (5) the Steiner-tradition saint figure read post-mortem by KühlmannAcross the cross-corpus reading, Steiner appears as five overlapping figures: (1) the contemporaneous WWI political analyst whose 1914-1918 lectures (GA 173/174/177/185) read the war supersensibly and politically; (2) the political activist of June-July 1917 who produced the Threefolding Memoranda offered to Karl I via Polzer-Hoditz and to
His 1917-01-15 Dornach lecture (GA 174c pp. 101-103) anticipating the Cold War's bipolar structure — "the British commercium and...the Russian pole...a great, gigantic, admirable thought of these occult brotherhoods" — is the keystone document of the cross-corpus thesis (claim WiU-22-031). The August 1917 unpublished archival memorandum (BAK/NS 15-302) is the keystone evidentiary anchor (claim WiU-22-030). His threefolding proposal remains the most-developed political alternative the 20-c offered to both Wilsonian self-determination and Bolshevik-collectivism (Essay 2).
Died March 30, 1925, Dornach. (Claims throughout; WiU-INTRO-001 through WiU-INTRO-006; WiU-1-002 through WiU-1-013; WiU-22-021 through WiU-22-035; BA-TR-001 through BA-TR-015.)