The Fateful Year of 1923

GA 259 — 27 May 1923, Dornach

Brief Report on the Trip to Norway

at the beginning of the evening lecture

I would just like to briefly report that the Nordic trip that I have just completed has, I believe, been quite satisfactory. I was able to give 13 lectures in Norway over eight days, and that enabled me to bring up a good deal of anthroposophy. I believe that our friends in Norway are very good workers at the present time and that we can look there with a certain satisfaction.

Of these lectures, two were public, the others private lectures for members and friends of members, that is, for a smaller circle of members and also non-members who were personally invited.

I would also like to note that the Norwegian Anthroposophical Society was formed during my time in Norway.¹ It now exists in a similar way to the Swiss Anthroposophical Society. It has appointed Mr. Ingerö as its General Secretary and will work out its further statutes. At the General Assembly held during my presence, it expressed its willingness to join the international society based in Dornach if the international society is established. If we then establish the individual branch societies one after the other, following the example of the Swiss society, it will be possible to bring about the constitution of the whole society in a way that takes account of today's circumstances. I would like to mention this in particular because it is perhaps important for a forthcoming General Assembly of the Swiss Anthroposophical Society to consider the fact that national societies have now been founded for a general Anthroposophical Society.²