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ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
‘He has entered the path, experiences the Light, and will gain the power to establish in his own soul, what until now should have given him happiness.’ Rudolf Steiner The Gate of Initiation
Thus speaks the world word that I was able to guide through the gate of the senses to the depth of my soul: ‘Fill the depth of your mind with the grandeur of my world in order one day to find me within yourself.’ Rudolf Steiner 1918
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In 1912, the Anthroposophical Society developed in Germany around the person of Rudolf Steiner. During the Christmas meeting of 1923, Rudolf Steiner gave the Anthroposophical Society a new form and became the chairman himself.The Anthroposophical Society in The Netherlands was founded in The Hague on 18 November 1923, in the presence of Rudolf Steiner.The physician and psychiatrist,Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven, was its first chairman. In the same year, the first Waldorf school, the Rudolf Steiner Clinic, and the medicine producer Weleda also started in The Hague. In 1926, one of the first biodynamic farms began in The Netherlands, Loverendale in Walcheren. In 1931, the physician and psychiatrist Bernard Lievegoed founded the first heil pedagogical institute for intellectually disabled children in Zeist, the later Zonnehuizen, currently treating both children and adolescents as well as adults. In 1961, Bernard Lievegoed became the second chairman of the Anthroposophical Society in The Netherlands. Anthroposophy is very active socially: the NPI, Institute for organisation development; the Zonnehuizen, organisation for the development of the intellectually disabled; De Wervel, for art therapist training; the foundation year at the Waldorf University in Driebergen; Hogeschool Helicon for teacher training; the Louis Bolk Institute for scientific research and the Triodos Bank.
