Current Social and Economic Issues

GA 332b — 15 May 1920, Dornach

To the Friends of the Goetheanum, of Anthroposophy and of the Threefold Social Order

In Switzerland, the former Entente countries and the neutral states.

Covering letter from the founding committee of “Kommender Tag” Switzerland, in future “Futurum AG”, regarding the founding prospectus in May 1920.

The undersigned are turning to you with the request that you participate to the greatest extent possible in the share subscription of the joint-stock company “DER KOMMENDE TAG” that is in the process of being founded.

From the outset, the new enterprise should be given the direction of impact that is necessary to approach the tasks that have been set for it, and to which the personalities in its service are dedicated with all their hearts.

It is important that as many shares as possible are taken up by people who are familiar with our ideas and aspirations. Because the larger the share capital subscribed by our friends, the larger the amount that outsiders can participate with can be set. Each subscription from our ranks has not only a dead weight, but also the weight of the amount that can be raised from outside as a result.

The initial capital should amount to at least 500,000 francs. However, it must be increased many times over as quickly as possible. The goal that the founders of the enterprise have set themselves is a distant one. The supranational spiritual healing powers that created the GOETHEANUM must be endowed with the international economic potential to exert a real influence on the ailing economy of the present day.

The scope of the entire undertaking is such that the resources needed for it can only be accumulated over a long period of time. However, since the foundation cannot wait until a capital is available that is sufficient to achieve the set goals, the small initial capital and what is done with it in a way that inspires confidence should be the biggest advertising factor for bringing together the full amount of working capital.

Each of our friends who subscribes for one, ten, one hundred or more shares is giving the personalities who are putting themselves at the service of the economic impact of the spiritual-scientific impulses something to stand on. But precisely by supporting a healthy undertaking that is steering a safe course out of the threatening collapse, he is investing his money in a place where it not only receives an illusory sham cover, but the best cover from the central constructive forces of the social future society.

Dornach, May 1920.

The founding committee:
Dr. Rudolf Steiner,
Dr. Roman Boos, lawyer,
Ernest Etienne, engineer at the Banque Suisse des Chemins de Fer à Bâle, Ingénieur-Directeur des Travaux de Pusine Hydro-Electrique de Chancy Geneve,
Ernst Gimmi, merchant,
Arnold Ich, graduate in economics and engineering.