# Communication

Newssheet, 1st year of publication, no. 41

Since my physical condition makes any traveling impossible at present – for a long time – I felt compelled to announce to my friends in Berlin that, to my great regret, they cannot count on my presence at their October events.

Rudolf Steiner.

*) Perhaps I may take this opportunity to express a request to our dear friends. I would not want my physical body condition to become the subject of all kinds of ideas. The point is that while I was fully able to cope with the actual course activities, which have been so extensive in the last few months, I had to overstretch my physical activity due to the excessive demands that came from my membership in addition to the course activities. This has led to a situation in which I am now able to fully carry out all spiritual work, but physically I cannot do even the slightest thing, but must hope that the unique, sacrificial care of my dear friend Dr. Ita Wegman and her loyal assistant, Dr. Noll, will soon enable me to do something physically, without which, unfortunately, the spiritual cannot work on earth, at least to a certain extent. It is not often thought about what devastating consequences an externally imposed overload in terms of time can have on someone who is engaged in spirit-borne activity, and how little driving helps when the conditional time saving has to be included in the programs. But in the end, all this must be felt as fatefully (karmically).