---
ga: 264
title: "To Anna R. Minsloff in Russia"
date: 1906-03-07
words: 892
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# The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One

## GA 264 — 7 March 1906, Berlin

### To Anna R. Minsloff in Russia

March 7, 1906

Dear Ms. Minsloff!

Regarding your own exercises, I need only tell you to continue with them as we have discussed them. If you do this, you will develop the beautiful powers within you, and this is what corresponds entirely to your nature. Success will not fail to come to you. We cannot make any changes to the exercises at this stage, as this would disrupt your further progress in the spiritual world. You are so inclined that you will make rapid progress by keeping to the same exercises, while many others have to progress through changes. The best spiritual beings are at your side to protect you. Your soul is destined to bring much help to humanity. You are so imbued with a true feeling for the spiritual world that I no longer need to speak to you about it myself, but only to tell you that I will always ask the “Venerable Masters” to protect you.

Now, Miss von Sivers tells me about the lady who has turned to you. With good and energetic treatment, the same can be helped. But it is not easy in her condition, especially now that she is expecting a child. Nevertheless, I would advise you to carry out a treatment with her if possible. This treatment also has an effect on the development of the child; but this influence will be less severe than if the lady remains without any psychic treatment at all.

The following is now advised.

You should let the lady come to you. Initially, for three days in a row at a specific time. Half an hour before she comes to you, reflect in the following specific way. First, think of your feet, as if your whole self were in the sole of your foot. Then draw the feeling that you get in the sole of your foot up through your whole body to your heart, always thinking “I” as you do so. Then think of your fingertips and say, as if you wanted to send the thought into your fingertips: “I want to ward off anything harmful with this.” “Your body is a battlefield of two warring powers. We will fix the whole thing if you become the master of your own body. In doing so, we will not harm the two fighters, but rather benefit them; but you yourself will also gain peace and stability.” When you have said this to the lady, have her stand in front of you and look you in the eye. At the same time, take the lady's left hand in your right hand. Then say to her: “Now think very hard ‘I’; then concentrate very hard on your feet, so that you feel everything in your feet in the minutest detail; now draw this feeling through your whole body to your heart, thinking only of the heart with the single idea ‘I’.” This must be continued until half an hour has elapsed. And the lady must not think about anything except her head. This last point must be strictly adhered to. Then, when this has been done, make two strokes on either side of the lady's spine, from the base of the neck to the head, saying aloud: “The hostile forces disappear.” At the same time, impress upon the lady that while you are speaking she must think of nothing but what you are saying.

Then the lady can come to you. Now say the following to her:

Then the lady must repeat the thought of the feet to the heart at least once a day, without you, while standing.

When this has been done for three days, everything should remain the same, except that the thought of the feet is replaced by the thought of the legs from heel to knee for a further three days,

> then three days from knee to hip,  
> then three days thinking of the body from the middle to the navel,  
> then three days thinking of the body from the navel to the heart,  
> then three days from heart to shoulders,  
> then three days thinking of the upper arms  
> three days thinking of the lower arms  
> three days thinking of the hands to the fingertips.

If this is done energetically, the lady will be reassured after a while, but this is not yet the case, so she must repeat the whole thing.

Each time the matter is over, the lady must say:

> "In the pure rays of light  
> the divinity of the world shines;  
> in the pure love for all beings,  
> the divinity of my soul shines;  
> I rest in the divinity of the world  
> I shall find myself  
> in the divinity of the world.

She should repeat this to herself seven times a day after the other thing.

When you have made the strokes on the back and said the words given above, “the hostile powers disappear”, then say the name (first names) of the lady very firmly and stroke her back again from bottom to top with both hands.

Goodbye, and warmest regards.

Sincerely yours,

Dr. Rudolf Steiner  
W 30, Motzstrasse 17, Berlin