8. The Elementary World and its Beings

Now, my dear friends, some older members look back on the earlier days of the anthroposophical movement with a certain dissatisfaction because they believe that this esoteric current no longer exists today — not really with good reason, because more esoteric things than have been presented in these three days can hardly be presented in the present. So one cannot say that esotericism has ceased to be pursued in our inner circles, especially here in Dornach, and this esotericism also flows through the public lectures. But the older members do not look back because esotericism is no longer there, because it does not flow into what is being offered, but because today they find other things as well.