Supplements to Member Lectures

This coming Easter week marks the anniversary of the time when our dear friend Christian Morgenstern departed from us here on the physical plane into the spiritual worlds, into those worlds which we strive to know through our spiritual science. On other occasions I have tried to describe what Christian Morgenstern was to us at the time when we had him in the midst of our spiritual-scientific current with his significant poetic talent, in which he, working out of the rich fullness of his spirit and soul, fertilized our spiritual movement. And I have already spoken of what Christian Morgenstern's visionary faculty has become since the time when his soul took on a different existence: How he belongs precisely to those individualities to whom we look as to our helpers dwelling in the spirit land, with whom we can bring to our consciousness in particular what we have to thank dead friends for. I have a lot to say about all this today, but there will be another context for this in the near future. But what I would like to point out in particular today, even if only in a few words, is the meaning and significance of the coming feast. It is, after all, the feast which symbolizes for us in the highest conceivable sense the victory of the eternal spiritual life over the sensual parables, over the material shells which the spirit assumes in order to present itself temporarily in these parables, in these shells, and to complete its special task in them. After all, what is to come is the feast that should always remind us that life is victorious, unceasingly and eternally victorious over death.