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The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One
GA 264 — 3 July 1906, Berlin
To Michael Bauer in Nuremberg
July 3, 1906
My dear Mr. Bauer!
I would have liked to have written to you long ago. But I was quite busy with other things. First I was in Paris, where I gave a series of lectures over four weeks.1 Then I had a lot of work to do at home. I'm sure you will agree that I will not be coming to the Nuremberg Congress. I do not believe that one could achieve anything serious in such a short time as I would have been allotted.
On the other hand, if it is convenient for you, I would like to visit you and our other dear members around August 8. That is, within the days after the 8th. Perhaps you will then be able to hold a lodge meeting together. I will write you the day later. I will write you the day later, because I will be in the vicinity of Nuremberg in a few days for another matter.2
The Leadbeater case is serious. I have written a circular about it, which will be sent to all our members in the next few days.3In this matter, we have to go into the deeper underlying issues. It is simply the case in occultism that, with the method that Leadbeater adopted, it is extremely easy to fall away. But actually, the case can only be properly judged from the occult point of view. I hope to explain the whole matter to you orally in the next few days.
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Kind regards to you, your wife and all the members.
Yours,
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Berlin W 30, Motzstrasse 17
At first, there is no change in the E.S. work.
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See “Cosmogony”, CW 94 ↩
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Rudolf Steiner was in Bayreuth with Marie von Sivers for a performance of Parsifal on August 6/7, 1906. It is not known whether he visited Nuremberg. ↩
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See the circular letter of July 1906 in part II “On the history of the division of the Esoteric School of Theosophy into an Eastern and a Western School”. ↩
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These remarks refer to the knowledge-cultic section of Rudolf Steiner's Esoteric School; see GA 265. ↩