{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 251/1922-05-21/p005","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Nelly Lichtenberg, who had recently sought recovery in Stuttgart, left the physical plane there a few days ago. She and her mother, who was there for her care, have been part of our anthroposophical movement since its inception. And if I want to express in a few words what, in my opinion, best characterizes the deceased, who has left the physical plane, and her mother, I would say: their souls were made of pure loyalty and pure, deep devotion to the cause of anthroposophy. We all appreciated, when our movement here in Berlin was still extremely small, the heartfelt loyalty and deep understanding with which they both clung to the movement and participated in its development. Baroness Nelly Lichtenberg carried this loyal soul in a body that caused extraordinary difficulties for her outer life. But this soul actually came to terms with everything in a wonderful spirit of endurance, a spirit of endurance that combined with a certain inner, inspired joy in absorbing the spiritual. And this spirit of endurance, combined with this inner joyfulness, warmed by a confidence in the life of the soul, on whatever plane in the future this soul life may unfold, all this was also found in the now deceased at her last sickbed in Stuttgart, where I found her in this state of mind and soul during my last visits. It is clear to you all that anyone who can in any way contribute to a person's recovery must do everything in their power to bring about that recovery; but you also all know how karma works and how it is sometimes simply impossible to achieve such a recovery. It was indeed painful to see only the future when one had the suffering woman before one in the last weeks. But her soul, which was also extraordinarily hopeful for the spiritual world, led her and those who had to do with her even in the last days beyond all that. And so we may say that in this soul, which left the physical plane with her, there lived here on earth one who had taken up anthroposophy in the true sense of the word – had taken it up in such a way that this anthroposophy was not just a theoretical world view, a satisfaction of the intellect or even a light satisfaction of the feelings, but was the whole content of her life, the certainty of her existence. And it was with this content of her life and with this certainty of her soul's existence that she left this physical plane. It is for us, especially for those of us who have gone through so many of the hours here in physical existence with her in the same spiritual striving, to turn our thoughts to her soul's existence. And that is what we want to do faithfully! She shall often find our thoughts united with her thoughts in the continuation of her existence in another realm, and she will always be a faithful companion of our spiritual striving, even in her further soul existence. We can be certain of that. And that we promise her this, that we want to powerfully direct our thoughts to her, as a sign of honor, we want to rise from our seats.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"39. 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Sie und ihre Mutter, die dort zu ihrer Pflege war, gehörten ja seit dem Beginne unserer anthroposophischen Bewegung dieser an. Und, wenn ich in wenigen Worten ausdrücken will, was vielleicht gerade die Verstorbene, von dem physischen Plan Hinweggegangene - und auch ihre Mutter selbst - in meinen Augen am besten charakterisiert, so möchte ich sagen: Gegenüber der anthroposophischen Bewegung bestanden ihre Seelen aus lauterer Treue, aus lauterer tiefer Hingegebenheit an die Sache. Wir alle haben zu schätzen gewusst, als unsere Bewegung hier in Berlin noch außerordentlich klein war, mit welcher innigen Treue und mit welchem tiefen Herzensverständnis die beiden an der Bewegung hingen und an der Entwicklung der Bewegung teilnahmen. Die Baronesse Nelly Lichtenberg trug diese treue Seele in einem Körper, der ja außerordentliche Schwierigkeiten für das äußere Leben bereitete. Aber diese Seele fand sich eigentlich mit allem in einer wunderbaren Duldergesinnung zurecht, einer Duldergesinnung, die sich verband mit einer gewissen inneren beseeligten Freudigkeit im Aufnehmen des Spirituellen. Und diese Duldergesinnung, verbunden mit dieser inneren Freudigkeit, durchwärmt von einer Zuversicht für das seelische Leben, auf welchem Plane immer sich in der Zukunft dieses seelische Leben entfalten möge, das alles traf man bei der nunmehr Verstorbenen auch an ihrem letzten Krankenlager in Stuttgart, wo ich sie durchaus in dieser Seelenstimmung und Seelenverfassung bei meinen letzten Besuchen gefunden habe. Es ist ja Ihnen allen klar, dass derjenige, der irgendwie mitwirken kann zur Gesundung eines Menschen, alles tun muss, um diese Gesundung nach seinen Kräften herbeizuführen; aber Sie wissen ja auch alle, wie das Karma wirkt, und wie es zuweilen eben unmöglich ist, eine solche Gesundung herbeizuführen. Es war gewissermaßen durchaus schmerzlich, nur in die Zukunft zu sehen, wenn man die Leidende in den letzten Wochen vor sich hatte. Aber über alles das führte ihre auch für die geistige Welt so außerordentlich hoffnungsvolle Seele sie selbst und die, welche mit ihr auch in den letzten Zeiten zu tun hatten, hinweg. Und so darf man sagen, dass gerade in der mit ihr von dem physischen Plan hinweggegangenen Seele eine solche hier auf Erden lebte, welche Anthroposophie in wahrem Sinne des Wortes aufgenommen hatte — so aufgenommen hatte, dass diese Anthroposophie nicht bloß eine theoretische Weltanschauung, eine Verstandesbefriedigung oder auch eine leichte Empfindungsbefriedigung war, sondern der ganze Inhalt ihres Lebens, die Gewissheit ihres Daseins war. Und mit diesem Inhalt ihres Lebens und mit dieser Gewissheit ihres Seelendaseins ist sie ja auch von diesem physischen Plan hinweggegangen. An uns ist es, namentlich an denjenigen, die so viele von den Stunden hier im physischen Dasein, die der Mensch zuzubringen hat, mit ihr im gleichen geistigen Streben durchgemacht haben — an uns ist es, unsere Gedanken zu ihrem Seelendasein hin zu richten. Und das wollen wir denn treulich tun! Sie soll oft in der Fortsetzung ihres Daseins in einem anderen Gebiete unsere Gedanken durch unseren Willen mit ihren Gedanken vereinigt finden, und sie wird immer, auch in ihrem ferneren Seelendasein, ein treuer Mitgenosse unseres geistigen Strebens sein. Dessen können wir gewiss sein. Und dass wir ihr dieses versprechen, dass wir unsere Gedanken kraftvoll zu ihr hinlenken wollen, zum Zeichen dessen, um sie zu ehren, wollen wir uns von unseren Sitzen erheben.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":543,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/251/1922-05-21/p005"}],"english":["GA 251/1922-05-21/p005"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":543,"en_words":545,"ratio":1.0,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.03,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":8564,"original_word_count":8348,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The History of the Anthroposophical Society 1913–1922","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA251/English/SOL2024/19220521s01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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