locaust, the Cold War and other wars, the Space Race, Nuclear Weapons, 9/11, and Covid. The degeneration of the nation-state into increasingly more toxic forms must also be understood as one of the greatest external dangers to the development of free spirituality today. How the questions of nationality, language, race, and gender play into this must be worked out along the lines of Rudolf Steiner’s lectures on The Mission of Folk Souls and other such material. With this preparation, organizations must be set up around the world to attempt to bring threefolding in a much more practical way as a response to the Covid years, starting with health and moving on to other aspects of culture like education, media, and race.
Before future financial shocks engulf us under the pretext of the “health of the planet” (whereas Covid was about the “health of the human being”), economic association work and currency work is critical, especially in rural areas. All of this will open bridges for people to take up anthroposophy—which is a crucial opportunity on the hundredth anniversary of the Christmas Foundation Conference. Dr. Gopi Krishna Vijaya is from Bangalore, India. He has completed his PhD in Physics (Solar Energy) from the University of Houston and is currently engaged in the Postdoctoral Research of the Reciprocal System of Physics—a way to inculcate spiritual-scientific thought into modern physics—in Salt Lake City, USA.
The Christmas Foundation Conference A Reflection
Virginia Sease | Goetheanum, August 2023 In his small but valuable book, About Your Relation to Rudolf Steiner, Ernst Katz emphasizes that in Rudolf Steiner’s reference to the last third of the nineteenth century, the year 1879, he points to the beginning of the reign of Michael, the regent of the sun. Also in the year 1879, during his early student years, Rudolf Steiner is led to the unnamed master who initiated him for his present incarnation: The master revealed to Rudolf Steiner who he is, and described to him how he would need to meet the great spiritual-earthly challenges that he will face and where his task would lie. A mandate from Rudolf Steiner’s meeting with the initiate teacher involved his task to renew and thereby make accessible to the world the teachings which were throughout all ages sequestered in the Mystery schools.1 The time of the dark ages—Kali Yuga—had expired after 3001 years and the light age was now dawning. As of the nineteenth century, this required that human beings would realize that 1 See Ernst Katz, About Your Relation to Rudolf Steiner (Ann Arbor: Rudolf Steiner Institute of the Great Lakes Area, 1985). For a detailed reference in German, see also Letters and Documents, 1901–1925 (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2020), GA 262. december 2023 • 27
