Michaélic School in the spiritual world that Steiner described in 1924. He also described how, between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries, this Michaélic School: …caused such profound disquiet and alarm to the ahrimanic demons on earth that a remarkable thing happened. Between heavenly deeds and earthly deeds at this time [a] polaric contrast was established. […] While Michaél above was teaching his hosts, there was founded in the realm lying immediately below the surface of the earth, a kind of sub-earthly, ahrimanic school. […] It is a truly overwhelming picture.7
We can also be in no doubt, once we perceive its true character, that the impulse of Covid 19: The Great Reset has its source in this “polaric . . . sub-earthly, ahrimanic school.” Many people today with no conscious connection to Rudolf Steiner’s work are actively awake to the utterly inhuman character of the “revolution” or “reset” that is underway.
Though many people committed to anthroposophy are similarly awake to this, many unfortunately are not and have, until now, failed to recognize what is at stake. The civilizational impulse of the Christmas Conference will never be realized unless it sees through and addresses the anti-Michaélic counter-impulse that seeks to hold sway in the world. Nor will the ahrimanically inspired assault on humanity—Covid 19: The Great Reset—be fully recognized and overcome without the spiritual help potentially made available for everyone through the Christmas Conference. Realizing the impulse of the Christmas Conference and countering the onslaught initiated during the last three years are therefore, ultimately, interdependent. Richard Ramsbotham is a writer and theater director, who lives in Stroud, UK. He co-runs Fourfold Living Arts, which brings together research into current themes and events with the performing arts.
7 Lecture of July 20, 1924 (GA 240), in: Karmic Relationships, Vol. VI (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2009), p. 170f.
Finding Balance, Bringing the Two Worlds Together Dorothea Mier For my understanding, the most essential nature or essence of the Christmas Foundation Meeting is bringing the esoteric and exoteric together. That Rudolf Steiner connected himself to the Society is an incredible deed, a huge sacrifice, utterly Christian. This gives all of us such a responsibility and calls us to activity that we respond to his deed and try, as best we can, to follow his example—that we live and practice anthroposophy in all we do and, first and foremost, in how we do it. That we are ever conscious that, as human beings, we live equally in two worlds. As members of the School of Spiritual Science we are asked, we are committed, to represent anthroposophy, to make anthroposophy ever present at all times and in all we do. Each one of us, I am sure, has to admit, sadly, how 22 • being human
far short we are in achieving this aim, but that should not deter us from trying and continuing our striving. The Foundation Stone Meditation is such an example: The more you live with it, the more it reveals its secrets to you, nourishes you, confirms the truth living in every part of itself, and shows its relevance to everything in life. The art of eurythmy, born out of anthroposophy and inseparable from it, is another example of bringing the two worlds together. The second panel of the Foundation Stone Meditation can be a guide—“you live within the beat of heart and lung,” not in the safety and security of the heart or lung but in the movement, the activity in-between, the uncertain ever-changingness. Can we embrace, celebrate
