Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924

GA 265a — 2 January 1913, Cologne

One Master – Four Individualities

Notes by Mrs. Margareta Morgenstern

In Cologne in 1913, Rudolf Steiner told an inner circle that one and the same master was behind four individualities and had inspired all four: Bacon, Shakespeare, Jakob Böhme and the Jesuit poet Jacobus Balde (Baldus).

In front of the statue of Jakob Böhme in Görlitz, a professor says that he looks just like Shakespeare. An enfant terrible answers: “You don't even realize that you have just said something very clever.”