Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

GA 263 — 1 January 1913, Hildesheim

Letter from Edith Maryon

Edith Maryon to Rudolf Steiner
[Translation]

[Cologne,] Baselerhof Hotel 1.1.13

Dear Dr. Steiner,

I assume that you are too busy to grant me another interview, but I would like to ask you two questions, and that is why I am writing.

You said yesterday that I am much more developed in the occult than I can bring to bear in this incarnation - is that because of some mistake I have made, or because I have a different kind of work to accomplish?

For several years I have had the feeling that there is something specific for me to do and that at some point I will meet the master who will tell me that and explain what seems so mysterious to me. I have been searching for a long time. At last I thought that perhaps Abdul Baha might be the person, but when I met him – although I liked him very much – I knew that it is not him. Then I thought that it might be you, and when I saw you in Berlin, I knew that I had found the right master; now only the second question remains: is there really something specific for me to do, or am I just imagining it? If it is the latter, may I now know what it is? It seems to me that the time has come to learn whether my hunch is correct, but I am sure that you will know best whether my confusion will be resolved or whether I will have to wait longer.

Yours sincerely

L. Edith C. Maryon