The Fateful Year of 1923

GA 259 — 5 May 1923, Dornach

Brief Report On The Prague Working Days

at the beginning of the evening lecture

[No minutes were kept of the discussions on company matters that took place. The founding of a Czech national company did not take place until a year later, on March 30, 1924, in the presence of Rudolf Steiner, as can be seen from his letter to Edith Maryon in Dornach dated April 1, 1924 (GA 263/1), which states: “Sunday [March 30] was almost entirely taken up from morning to evening by the meeting at which the Bohemian Landesgesellschaft was formed.” There is also no record of this meeting.]

My dear friends! I will report briefly on our trip to Prague. I gave two public lectures and two branch lectures. The public lectures were exceptionally well attended. The first took place in the local Urania Institute. The eurythmy performance took place on Sunday morning in front of the large and sold-out Deutsches Theater in Prague.

This occasion also truly showed how deeply the longing is everywhere for a spiritual life, for a new spiritual life, and that it would only be a matter of finding the paths to the many people who today are seeking such an approach to a new spiritual life. On such occasions, one can indeed find through experience that there are truly, today in the world — and indeed in all nations — an extraordinary number of them.

Unfortunately, Dr. Steiner was unable to recite the verses herself this time due to her indisposition, and she will also be unable to do so at the eurythmy performances in Breslau, Nuremberg, Heidenheim and so on, which will now follow the Prague and Stuttgart performances.