The Christmas Conference

Manuscripts and Blackboard Sketches

Facsimile 1

Handwritten copy of the ‘Statutes of the Anthroposophical Society’ ready for printing.

Facsimile 2

The printed Statutes, with handwritten alterations and additions arising during the debate on the Statutes.

Facsimile 3

The version of the meditation for the laying of the Foundation Stone used during the Christmas Conference.

Facsimile 4

The ‘Rhythms’ as Rudolf Steiner wrote them on the blackboard.

Facsimile 5

Sketches referring to the constitution of the School of Spiritual Science and to the rebuilding of the Goetheanum.

Facsimile 6

The version of the meditation for the laying of the Foundation Stone prepared for the Supplement to Das Goetheanum, Vol. 1, No. 1, 13 January 1924.

 

Notes on the Facsimiles

FACSIMILES 1, 3, 5
Size of the sheets: 21 x 27.5 cm

FACSIMILE 2
Size of the sheet: 28 x 21.7 cm, folded 14 x 21.7 cm

FACSIMILE 4
Size of the sheets: approx. 100 x 150 cm
The originals have been preserved because black sheets of paper were attached to the blackboards. The dates were added later.

LOCATION OF THE ORIGINALS:
Facsimile 1 and Facsimile 4, Blackboard XI: in the Goethaneum, Dornach. All the others are held in the archives of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung in Dornach.