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The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume One
GA 264 — Berlin
To Wilhelm Hübbe-Schleiden in Hanover
Berlin, November 15, 1908
Dear Sir!
To the best of my knowledge, my introductions to “Goethe's scientific writings in Kürschner's National Literature” have not been published in a separate print run. If the publisher had published one at the time, it would have been without my knowledge. But that will not be the case.
The publication I mentioned in Hannover is called: “The Structure of the Atom and Life” by Dr. Adolf Drescher (published by Emil Roth in Gießen 1908). In the preface of this publication, you will also find a mention of the earlier book by the same author that you mentioned. Drescher does not take occultism into account in his atomic constructions. Therefore, I only used him for a comparison in principle.1
Regarding the color of the pentagram! The coloring of the pentagram figure enclosed will be the best for you as well, which I had made for individual esotericists. But this presentation is complicated. If a color is used, then the most effective is that of the horn to ☽ (violet-reddish).
The serpent is best represented in the yellow as found in the ☿ pentagram and hexagram.2
Seal of the Rose Cross on a blue background – black cross – 7 stars (in Munich, 8 should stand exoterically for 7 esoterically).3
Arrangement:
Please excuse the brevity as it is time to leave.
Warmest regards,
Yours sincerely
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
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Rudolf Steiner was in Hannover on November 4 and 5, 1908 for lectures and probably had a conversation with Hübbe-Schleiden, who was very much concerned with atomic constructions. ↩
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Cf. the illustration and text on page 190. ↩
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Refers to the Rose Cross seal first given by Rudolf Steiner for the Munich Congress. Cf. The Munich Congress at Whitsun 1907 and its Effects, ↩