Correspondence with Edith Maryon 1912–1924

GA 263 — 16 November 1923, The Hague

Letter to Edith Maryon

Rudolf Steiner to Edith Maryon

Hôtel “Vieux Doelen”
La Haye, 16 November 1923

My dear Edith Maryon!

Thank you very much for your kind letters. It is depressing to note that the opposition is having an effect and that Mrs. Mackenzie finds it unpleasant, especially in view of the following fact. Mr. Kaufmann was here as soon as I arrived. He brought a letter from Collison about the translation of Boldt's book “From Luther to Steiner” that Mrs. Blake has provided. This book is now being judged as “anti-British” because it contains a lot about Western English materialism and also about Eastern mysticism and German Christianity. I have never seen this book in German or English, and I do not feel qualified to pass judgment on it, but it is tragic that from a British-chauvinistic point of view a book about me is now being seen as German-chauvinistic, while the German chauvinists are furiously demonstrating against me the most. It seems that everything in the anthrop. society also leads to chaos.

There was already a doctors' lecture here, and today will be the second. There was also a public lecture yesterday. There will be a second one today as well. Otherwise, everything is going well; only society is also in a terrible state here, disunity, inadequacy, etc.

I think a lot about there, but today I can only send

my warmest regards and wishes for recovery

Rudolf Steiner