{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 140/1913-10-10/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"With all my heart I respond to the very kind greeting just expressed by your representative, and I feel sure that those friends who have come to this town to take part in Anthroposophical life in the company of our Bergen friends will unite with me in this. We have had a beautiful journey across the great mountains, which give us so pleasant and friendly a welcome, and I think our friends will certainly enjoy their stay in this old Hanseatic town all the time we are able to be here. That marvellous handiwork of man, the railway along which we traveled, brought to our notice more closely than in other parts of Europe the impression of the energy of human creative force in actual combination with Nature herself. When one sees the rocks that had to be broken up in order that the hand of man could construct such work, side by side with that other, constructed and piled up by Nature herself, the impressions that pour in upon one do truly make a visit to such a country one of the most beautiful of all possible experiences. In this ancient town our friends will spend the time of our sojourn amidst beautiful impressions which will be preserved in their memories as the background of their visit. These will be days for storing up memories, more especially because we can satisfy ourselves by physical vision that even here, in this part of the world, we can meet with Anthroposophical hearts which beat in unison with our own in the search for the spiritual treasures of humanity. Our visit to this town will certainly link us more closely and more affectionately with those who have received us here in so loving a way.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture I","site_heading":"Living Intercourse with the Dead Through Spiritual Science","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Und überzeugt bin ich, daß diejenigen Freunde, die mit mir hier in diese Stadt heraufgekommen sind, um mit unseren Bergener Freunden anthroposophisches Leben zu pflegen, herzlich einstimmen in diese Begrüßung. Es ist ja zweifellos schön gewesen bei der Herfahrt über die uns so freundlich und so großartig anmutenden Berge, und ich glaube, daß unsere Freunde sich in der alten hanseatischen Stadt wohl fühlen werden in den Tagen, in denen sie hier sein können. Nicht nur hat uns das Menschenwunderwerk der Bahn, mit welcher wir gefahren sind, in intimer Weise gerade in dieser Gegend den Eindruck nahebringen können, den man in anderen Gegenden Europas wenig hat, daß, unmittelbar zusammengedrängt, uns entgegentrat menschliche energische Schaffenskraft in der ursprünglichen Natur: wenn man sieht, wie Steine, die notwendig gebrochen werden mußten, um so etwas zustande zu bringen, wie es der menschliche Geist heute zustande bringt, unmittelbar neben den anderen liegen, die die Natur aufgetürmt hat, dann kommen Eindrücke, die wahrhaftig den Besuch eines solchen Landes zu dem Herrlichsten machen können, das man heute unternehmen kann. In dieser alten Stadt werden die Freunde die Tage, an denen wir hier sein dürfen, schön durchleben und sie besonders in Erinnerung bewahren durch diesen erhabenen Hintergrund des Aufenthaltes. Es werden Tage des Andenkens sein. Insbesondere aber werden sie das sein aus dem Grunde, weil wir uns durch den äußeren, physischen Augenschein überzeugen durften, daß wir auch hier in dieser Gegend anthroposophische Herzen finden können, die mit uns zusammenschlagen in dem Erstreben der geistigen Schätze der Menschheit. 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