Letter from the Sickbed

To our friends of Anthroposophy gathered at the Goetheanum

A year has passed since our conference during the last Christmas season, when a new life was to be given to the Anthroposophical Society and a spiritual foundation stone was laid for it.

This Christmas I cannot attend the gatherings of our friends, I cannot do anything in person to help with what has been organized. I was unable to assist Mrs. Marie Steiner in anything that needed to be prepared.

My physical strength collapsed during the fall events. It would probably have held despite the many courses; but only if no other efforts had been made beyond those of holding the courses, which were well calculated for this strength. Now that efforts have come, in a perfectly understandable way, that went beyond those of holding courses, it was too much after all that was incumbent upon me during this past year.

So now I am dependent on regaining physical strength with the help of the unparalleled, self-sacrificing care of my friend Dr. I. Wegman. (Dr. Noll is Dr. Wegman's loyal helper.

All this must be accepted as fate (karma). It would be sentimental to say much about how painful it is for me to be physically separated from the places where we work at the Goetheanum. I would just like to hope that none of this will weaken our dear friends, but rather make them stronger and more effective.

All I can do for these Christmas events is to send to the hall where I want to be with the friends spiritually, descriptions of the “Christ Mystery in the Context of World and Human Development” - which I developed following the messages about Michael's mission. Their lecture should awaken the consciousness that I want to participate as well as I can in this year's Christmas meetings. These messages about the mystery of Christ, which correspond to the Christmas festival mood, will also appear in the following numbers of the journal.

Christmas greetings and thoughts for Dr. I. Wegman, who is deprived of her membership by me.

With all my heart
Rudolf Steiner