---
ga: 260
title: "Continuation of the Foundation Meeting"
date: 1924-01-01
location: Dornach
words: 838
---
# The Christmas Conference

## GA 260 — 1 January 1924, Dornach

### XVIII. Continuation of the Foundation Meeting

DR STEINER:

Once more, my dear friends, we shall welcome to our souls what is to inspire us and bring us strength during this Conference:

> Soul of Man!  
> Thou livest in the limbs  
> Which bear thee through the world of space  
> In the spirit's ocean-being.  
> Practise spirit-recalling  
> In depths of soul,  
> Where in the wielding will  
> Of world-creating  
> Thine own I  
> Comes to being  
> Within God's I.  
> And thou wilt truly live  
> In the World-Being of Man.  
>
> For the Father-Spirit of the heights holds sway  
> In depths of worlds begetting being:  
> Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones!  
> Let there ring out from the heights  
> What in the depths is echoed  
> Speaking:  
> Ex Deo nascimur.  
>
> Soul of Man!  
> Thou livest in the beat of heart and lung  
> Which leads thee through the rhythm of time  
> Into the realm of thine own soul's feeling.  
> Practise spirit-awareness  
> In balance of the soul,  
> Where the surging deeds  
> Of the world's becoming  
> Thine own I  
> Unite  
> With the World-I.  
> And thou wilt truly feel  
> In the Soul-Weaving of Man.  
>
> For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway  
> In the rhythms of the worlds, bestowing grace on the soul.  
> Kyriotetes, Dynamis, Exusiai!  
> Let there be fired from the East  
> What through the West is formed  
> Speaking:  
> In Christo morimur.  
>
> Soul of Man !  
> Thou livest in the resting head  
> Which from the grounds of eternity  
> Opens to thee the world-thoughts.  
> Practise spirit-beholding  
> In stillness of thought,  
> Where the eternal aims of Gods  
> World-Being's Light  
> On thine own I  
> Bestow  
> For thy free willing.  
> And thou wilt truly think  
> In the Spirit-Foundations of Man.  
>
> For the world-thoughts of the Spirit hold sway  
> In the being of worlds, craving for light:  
> Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi !  
> Let there be prayed from the depths  
> What in the heights will be granted  
> Speaking:  
> Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus.  
>

Today we shall inscribe a simple rhythm into our souls:

**[** Rudolf Steiner writes on the blackboard as he speaks. See Facsimile 5, Page XVII top. **]**

*Thou livest in the limbs*

*For the Father-Spirit of the heights holds sway  
In depths of worlds begetting being*.

*Thou livest in the beat of heart and lung*

*For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway  
In the rhythms of the worlds, bestowing grace on the soul*.

*Thou livest in the resting head*

*For the world-thoughts of the Spirit hold sway  
In the being of worlds, craving for light*.

[As shown on the blackboard]

*Thou livest in the limbs  
For the Father-Spirit of the heights holds sway  
In depths of worlds begetting being*.

*Thou livest in the beat of heart and lung  
For the Christ-Will in the encircling round holds sway  
In the rhythms of the worlds, bestowing grace on the soul*.

*Thou livest in the resting head  
For the world-thoughts of the Spirit hold sway  
In the being of worlds, craving for light*.

I thus write down for you the rhythms as they resound together because they do indeed encompass an image of the starry constellations. We say: Saturn is in the sign of Leo, or Saturn is in the sign of Scorpio. Rhythms depend on this, rhythms that go through the world. An image of primeval spirit lives in such rhythms in the way I have written them down for you over the course of these last days, having taken them from our verses which are inwardly organized through and through in accordance with the realm of spirit and soul.

Now to continue with our meeting, Herr Krebs would like to speak.

Herr Krebs speaks.

DR STEINER: On the question of the opposition, Herr Wolfgang Wachsmuth and then Herr Hardt wish to speak.

Herr Wolfgang Wachsmuth speaks about books and the question of the opposition.

DR STEINER: Obviously, if such a group is formed, then if it needs advice in one matter or another it will find this advice here. That is what I would like to say as a direct reply to the question. Does anyone else wish to speak with regard to the question of the opposition?

Herr Werbeck speaks on the question of the opposition.

DR STEINER: I would now ask Herr Hardt to speak. (He does not respond.) Now Herr Leinhas would like to speak.

Herr Leinhas speaks about the question of the opposition and about the press.

DR STEINER: Dr Stein will speak next.

Dr Walther Johannes Stein speaks on the question of the opposition.

DR STEINER: I would now like your permission to proceed to the matter of the rebuilding of the Goetheanum.