In the context of our contemporary culture’s crisis in regard to temporal experience, she looked forward to their future work becoming an enthusiastic researching and discovery of how this time art, eurythmy, serves the human being, bringing relationship and health, so that we can experience all that can come to us in the subtleties of time—all that we can meet in the living, loving quality of living with time. Both speakers addressed Glenda’s and David-Michael’s dedicated, caring, enduring leadership and guidance in carrying the training that has made it possible for the students to take eurythmy into their lives and now into the lives of the many children and others who will come their way. It was a moving space that opened up as Glenda then spoke to each of the graduates in relationship to the virtue connected with the month in which each one was born. Hearing this in the context of the shared experience of the performance and, for many, of accompanying these individuals from nearer or farther away throughout the four years, we could appreciate how each of these monthvirtues expands to touch aspects of all human effort and growth, and thereby to include each of us: patience leads to insight; control of thought and speech leads to a feeling for truth; courage leads to the strength to redeem; generosity becomes love. The congratulatory recognition surrounding each graduate receiving her certificate was topped off with a final applause of celebration that spilled over into the reception, beautifully prepared by the graciously supporting second-year students, known as the Borealis group, who regaled the party with glorious and humorous presentations, topped off by Glenda and David-Michael in a eurythmy rendering of “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off,” the lyrics of a song by George and Ira Gershwin for the 1937 film Shall We Dance? If “shall we?” was the question that dawned four years ago as the destiny threads found their way together, then dance indeed was the heart’s experience in now witnessing this bound toward the future. Since then, the Aspens have traveled to the Goetheanum to participate in the International Gathering of Eurythmy Graduates from June 30-July 3, where new graduates of eurythmy trainings met, performed parts of their graduation programs, had master classes, and celebrated together. Already now, we can look forward to what’s in the wind—to what will find its voice in the breath of the world.
The Scholarly Steiner by David W. Wood This lengthy review by David W. Wood [published in full online at http://www.anthroposophy.org/articles/] is of the first volume of a new “critical edition” of the written works of Rudolf Steiner, edited by Dr. Christian Clement, a German national teaching at Brigham Young University. Dr. Christian Clement was a Waldorf student in Germany himself and did his dissertation on Rudolf Steiner’s Mystery Dramas for his PhD in German languages and literature. Little reaction to this edition has been available in English, but the cooperation of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung and of the Rudolf Steiner Verlag was the subject of controversy at the Annual General Meeting of the Society at the Goetheanum last spring. (See Anthroposophy Worldwide 05/14 for a statement by the RSN and RSV.) Dr. Wood, born 1968 in Australia, is an independent researcher living in Munich. He has a PhD in philosophy jointly from the Sorbonne (Université Paris IV) in France and the Universität München (LMU) in Germany. Those interested in Rudolf Steiner’s recognition in the academic world will wish to read it in full online. We can only present the opening section here (omitting footnotes). An exciting new development in Steiner research is currently taking place with regard to the publication of his written works in German. The first volume of a critical edition has appeared, edited by Dr. Christian Clement, associate professor of German studies at the Brigham Young University in the United States, and published by the respected frommann-holzboog publisher in Germany. This publishing house is renowned among others for its long tradition of critical editions and collected works of thinkers such as Jacob Böhme, Johann Valentin Andreae (the author of Rosicrucian texts), F.W.J. Schelling, J.G. Fichte, and G.W.F. Hegel. Considering the philosophical, cultural and spiritual roots of Steiner’s thought, it is a perfectly appropriate venue for an edition of his works. Moreover, Dr. David Marc Hoffmann (a leading Nietzsche specialist and head of the Rudolf Steiner Archive) and the executive committee of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung are to be congratulated for their forward-thinking decision in proposing a joint distribution between Rudolf Steiner Verlag and frommann-holzboog. With this editorial undertaking it can now be said that Steiner’s written work has finally arrived in the scholarly world. fall-winter issue 2014-2015
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