# Our Dead

## GA 261 — 22 October 1920, Dornach

### Eulogy for Harald Lille

My dear friends!

Last night our dear friend FJarald Lille left the physical plane. A great many of those friends who have been working here on this building for years, and also those who have come here from time to time, know our friend and have undoubtedly grown to love him very much. Lille was a personality who was completely devoted to the anthroposophical cause, a personality who was intimately attached to all the work and to the whole process of our construction. When Lille moved to his immediate homeland some time ago, prompted by his circumstances, the germ of the disease that has now taken him away was already in him. But it drew him back here. The opposing spirit in his body threw him, when he came here again last year, on the sickbed. It was a difficult time, he has gone through here. Then he sought rest in the mountains, always mindful of what is to arise here for humanity, and fully convinced of the value of that, what is to arise here.

When our courses began, he found himself back here, although he was suffering greatly and close to death. With a deep interest and a real inner radiance, he was still able to take part in a number of the presentations during the first week of the course. Then, however, the illness prevented him again. And just a day before his death, he assured me how extraordinarily glad he was that he had been able to let this part of the course, which he was able to attend, still sink in. He has passed over into the spiritual world with courage and in the light, hardly assuming any difference between the worlds of here and there within himself, having gone over as one of our most loyal co-workers, who will certainly keep all her thoughts, all her striving united with what is created here. And those who have come to know our dear friend and appreciate his character will be convinced of this. They will faithfully send their thoughts after him for the rest of his journey through life. He will most certainly, after he has repeatedly and repeatedly striven for the construction in his earthly life, already foreshadowing how his whole being is directed here, he will most certainly unite his thoughts with those that come up to him from here. As a sign of this, my dear friends, we rise from our seats.

The cremation will take place in Basel on Monday afternoon at 4 o'clock.