12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

It should be mentioned in passing that all kinds of fairy tales are being spread about this university building for spiritual science in Dornach, such as the latest fairy tale that has been put on my desk: that this university, which was indeed once to be built in Munich, could not be built because we would have been rejected there. And all kinds of other fairy-tale stuff is being put forward in connection with this. In reality, however, the situation is that we were not rejected, but that certain circles in Munich, which must be consulted when something is to be realized, were unable to come to a conclusion with their expert opinion. The situation was such that these circles could wait ten years with their expert opinion, but we could not wait ten years with the construction! — Another fairy tale tells that a kind of competition arose among various cities because of the construction, and that other cities won this general competition of cities against Munich. This is not meant to say anything against the artistic city of Munich; but it must be said that even if the people of Munich are now sorry that the College of Spiritual Science has been built elsewhere, not many cities were fighting over it! No one has fought over us yet. Incidentally, the newspaper in question is not particularly well informed when it writes that Basel “seems” to have emerged from this competition as the most favorable city.