# The Fateful Year of 1923

## GA 259 — 24 December 1923, Dornach

### Handwritten Notes on the Opening Address of the Christmas Conference

Notebook archive number NB 570

December 24, 1923

Connection to 1913 = guidance to a heap of ruins. Initially, there was

a spiritual heritage – this was

cultivated in a certain way.

The war broke into society =

It had found it unprepared –

1.) There was a revelation of the spirit to humanity/it must be sought -/Theosophy, Anthroposophy 1.) The difficulty of the public or closed 2.) The difficulty of internal consolidation = do not split on the outside - 1.) Anthroposophy itself - 2.) Artistic 3.) Eurythmy - Recit.[ation] etc.

24 Dec. 1923

1) Reduced to a heap of ruins = 1922-23 publishing house - etc.

2) This is only an appearance. The seeds are everywhere.

3) What has come into being does not fit into the forms that were there.

Berlin lecture / newspaper note

Executive council: what should it be? It should be taken in such a way that one can join it independently.

Books like “Theosophy” become fuller and fuller the older they get – books like “Key Points” lose more and more of their content.

2 Puncte = Publicity / Consolidation

Stuttgart = Christmas games / with the teachers pyright Rudoff Steiner