Supplements to Member Lectures

GA 246 — 5 August 1924, Dornach

86. Address at the Wedding of Mieta Waller and Scott Pyle

My dear festive comrades!

We are celebrating a festival which all the friends gathered here feel warmly, and they feel warmly the festive communion with the dear relatives, the mother of Mieta Waller, the other relatives of Mieta Waller. I am not speaking here merely on behalf of the anthroposophical friends who are gathered here, I am speaking these words at this festive moment as the one who was connected in all heartfelt friendship with the one and the other personality who are today taking the first steps on the common path of life.

My dear fellow celebrators, Mieta Waller is joining Scott Pyle on the common path of life, and it is truly from the bottom of my heart that I can speak a blessing and a wish of blessing at this place, because our dear friend Mieta Waller has been associated with our house for seventeen years. Just over seventeen years ago, she formed an intimate friendship with Dr. Steiner, who would truly have loved to be here today if she had not been prevented from doing so by very urgent duties. She would very much like to take part in this truly heartfelt celebration today. It is really quite human to speak of such a long-lasting community.

The intimate way in which our dear friend Mieta Waller became attached to Dr. Steiner, becoming more and more like her, was something that I could only regard with the greatest benevolence and with the deepest inner satisfaction because of the invincible loyalty that expressed itself in this community. That is what comes to my mind above all at this moment. And therefore you will understand, my dear friends, dear relatives of our dear friend Mieta Waller, that in a certain sense it can correspond to a deep feeling when Mieta Waller will now walk her path of life together with our beloved friend Scott Pyle, when she - I would like to say, since I believe this - does not leave her community with Dr. Steiner, but rather adds the new steps to the old path, when she now takes this important step in her life. And I think that the warmth that was connected with everything that we lived through together for seventeen years, this warmth can flow in blessing onto the distant path of life of our beloved friend.

I would like to say: out of warm love we follow this path of life. And just as our friend Mieta Waller has proven herself in her loyalty to our cause, in her loyalty to many humanly beautiful things, so, may I say, our hearts and those of many of those close to us have been conquered in the short time that our dear friend Scott Pyle has been with us. We have actually, we may say, even before any thought, any idea of the intention that Mieta Waller and Scott Pyle would walk a common path of life, we have loved Scott Pyle before with that corresponding love which we believe we can now give him as a kind of festive gift, now that he continues to unite with himself that which we can only give him in the deepest love. And we have gotten to know our dear friend, got to know his beautiful, true, sacrificial heart, his radiant philanthropy and love of mankind. We have come to know how it is actually impossible for anyone who knows our dear friend Scott Pyle not to love him. It seems downright impossible to us. And that is why we understand it best of all, I would say, from what we have come to know about Scott Pyle in such a beautiful way, in such a satisfying way, that Mieta Waller has devoted all her love to him. And in a very obvious way, those who loved Mieta Waller, who loved Scott Pyle, will always retain this love, even in these new living conditions.

Both of them came before me when they had decided to make their life's journey together and spoke about how they wanted to place this common life's journey under a spiritual task for the benefit of humanity. It was a beautiful, a touching, a deeply satisfying moment, for those who look deeper into the connections of life know how that which is united in love can be illuminated in the most glorious way through a common task that binds hearts and minds together.

And so it was connected with that which approached, my dear festive comrades, I would like to say, approached at that time in festive gracefulness - for basically this word may be used in that more beautiful sense in which it was used earlier in the German language - as in festive gracefulness approached, in beautiful gracefulness - that was connected at that time, and the word “beautiful gracefulness” may also be used by our dear friend Scott Pyle - he also came at that time in truly beautiful gracefulness, when he spoke of the connection of a great human task with the covenant of life. This was combined with the most sacred seriousness. And since that moment I have always been able to look forward with the deepest joy, with the deepest satisfaction to the imminent closing of this covenant of life.

I may well say, if wishes for blessings can be fruitful, that in the time since you, my dear friends, were with me in my studio and made your intentions known to me for the first time, a beautiful treasure of loving contemplation of your life's journey has developed. I know that this was also the case with many, many others, with Dr. Steiner, many others, also with personalities such as our friend Ita Wegman, many others who are so close to Scott Pyle, our friend Günter Wachsmuth and many, many others in the most heartfelt way. And it is the case in life that where loyal, well-meaning hearts are not lacking, it must be possible to pass the path well, no matter how many obstacles and hindrances stand in the way.

And so accept the best wishes for the way, accept the best wishes for the way! May they carry you, may they be illuminated by those thoughts that take their content from the beautiful, loving, philanthropic, sacrificial spirit that you have shown us for so many years, for so long. May that which you have shown us there shine and shine again from all the hearts that want to lovingly accompany with their thoughts in this hour that which you want to undertake together for life.