Rudolf Steiner first brought the idea of the new constitutional principle of civilization or social organics to the fore in 1917 with his (unsolicited and internal) Memoranda to the governments of the German and Austrian-Hungarian emperors as a Central-European peace initiative to end the wars between the Central Powers against Russia and the West. It contained a radical yet practical proposal to finally realize the ideals of the French revolution by extending the trias politica, i.e. the separation of powers of the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, to the trias organica, i.e. the three branches of the social organism: freedom in the cultural life (science, art and religion), equality in the rights sphere (of the state and politics) and brotherhood in the economic life (production, distribution and consumption of goods and services), thereby not weakening but rather strengthening the domain of the constitutional state proper, the sphere of rights. To insure a harmonious function between the three relatively independent powers would then be the task of a sort of senate with chosen representative from all three spheres.
Apart from large sections in my article “Rudolf Steiner’s Idea of
Social Organics”, these Memoranda have hardly become known in English and it was from translating a sentence in the First Memorandum that the
idea arose to give this publication the subtitle Powers to the People
and thereby resurrect with new life and meaning the old slogan Power to the
People (now Powers in plural) from my American hippy, singer/songwriter and
anti-Vietnam war days in the late sixties and early seventies of the previous
century, before going to the village of Dornach, Switzerland, where the seat of the General Anthroposophical Society is located , to find
out why we never heard anything about this in these revolutionary days that
without a guiding principle degenerated into mere drugs, sex and rock-n-roll.
This particular sentence from the end of the First Memorandum reads as follows: It is conceived as the expression of what
the peoples of Central Europe would do, when from the part of the governments
the task would be set to recognize and release the powers of the people
(German: Völkerkräfte). This in
effect means that the powers of the (centralized) nation state are through
general consent to be reduced to the legislative, executive and judicial
branches of government, and that it is to release its control of and
interference with the two other powers constituting the social body, namely the
cultural-spiritual life, on the one hand, and the economic life, on the other
hand. It may be obvious that more than 100 years later this now refers to the
liberation of all people on this planet clamoring for freedom.
But this internal attempt failed and thus Rudolf
Steiner went public in 1919 with his Appeal
to the German People and the Civilized World, here included in the
Appendix, followed by his book The
Threefold Social Order – Basic Issues of the Social Question[1],
out of which grew a popular movement with branches in several European
countries.
After also this second phase of
development failed to break through due to (violent) opposition from left to
right and too little support from anthroposophists, who failed to understand
that implementation of social organics would also cure the huge financial
crisis, Rudolf Steiner developed in 1922 in his Course on a Science of World Economy[2]
a new social organic form of thinking and language.
In order to further develop and globally represent this new paradigm Rudolf Steiner and his followers reconstituted on a social organic basis in 1923 the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, Switzerland, which now has many branches throughout the world, all designed to bring this new principle of civilization to fruition for the benefit of mankind and the earth.
With
this sentence, I ended Section 1 of my essay from 2017. However, it must be said that this fourth phase suffered the same fate as the previous
ones. It was, with few notable exceptions, not understood, neither represented
let alone realized by those that in the first instance were meant to do so,
namely the Executive-councils of the General Anthroposophical Society and its
branches around the world as well as the leadership of the Goetheanum.[3]
The essay “The Gradual Loss of Social-Esthetic Qualification in the General
Anthroposophical Society”[4]
by Reto Andrea Savoldelli, a close co-worker of Herbert Witzenmann, the no-holds-barred
essay “Can Anthroposophy Still Be Saved in the General Anthroposophical
Society”[5]
by Friedrich Sprich, former head of the finance department at the administration
of the Goetheanum, an extensive, almost three hours long video by Dutch
anthroposophists Patrick Steensma and Michiel Klinkhamer, on the nature and
workings of the Deep State or Cabal and on the authors’ energetic earth
cleansing[6],
as well as my yearly motion and requests to the General Assemblies of the
General Anthroposophical Society since 2018 and other articles[7],
all from different angles, but all primarily based on anthroposophy as science
of the Grail, shed further light on what must be regarded as a policy, even
sometimes with the best of intentions, of prevention, suppression and
infiltration by forces aiming to destroy the Anthroposophical Society and the
Christian Community, the Movement for Religious Renewal , something that Rudolf
Steiner warned about in his lectures for the First Class of the School for
Spiritual Science in 1924 (GA 270).[8]
This publication ends with a textual
contribution by Herbert Witzenmann to
the advice by Rudolf Steiner given to
young people during his course of bio-dynamic farming in 1924, namely to start
oases of humanity, which was taken up in 1945 by Albert Steffen, the Swiss poet
and author, who after Rudolf Steiner’s death in 1925 became his successor as
president of the General Anthroposophical Society and by Herbert Witzenmann,
who has made frequent references in his work to this ideal stating that the
founding of such oases could offer a prospective on a World Peace Union.
The Appendices include an annotated version of the Founding Statutes,
later called Principles of what was designed to be a world-wide “Union of
People” called General Anthroposophical Society, also translated by the author,
which are based on the meso-social form of the new constitutional principle,
and other documents and images, such as the wooden sculpture of “The
Representative of Humanity” by Rudolf Steiner, which are to substantiate what
this publication is offering for critical appraisal, namely a hitherto
practically unknown overview of a unified theory of the macro- and mesosocial
form of social organics as the new
constitutional principle of civilization for the structural liberation of
mankind, a “Charter of Humanity”[9].
The lack of knowledge and
implementation of these four objective dynamic laws of mankind, I repeat what
was said in the Foreword, is the greatest threat to world peace. This will now
be developed in more detail with reference to sources and literature for
further study. Immanent criticism is as always more than welcome.
[3] A notable exception seems to
be the standing conference on Associative Economics within the Social Science
Section at the Goetheanum instituted already some time ago and led by the English
economist Dr. Christopher H. Budd. But for some strange reason the thought is
not put forward here that with the Course on World Economy Rudolf Steiner
presented a new paradigm not on associative economics but on the more encompassing
idea of the threefold nature of the social organism. And from the notion that the constitution of the
newly refounded Anthroposophical Society is based on a meso-social form of the
threefold idea, as may be gathered from this publication, nothing has (yet) to
my knowledge emanated from this group.
[5]
Partially translated from the German by Richard Cooper and posted on the
FB site “The Christmas Conference – Emergence into the 6th Cultural
Age”
[6] See: https://rumble.com/v13yxn8-cabal-exposures-black-magic-clearings-and-grail-revelations.html?mref=6zof&mrefc=2
[7] See my video request in 2021 to the General Assembly of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum in
Dornach which contains links to previous efforts and articles, until now mostly
ignored or side-tracked by the Council, for which an explanation is given by the
essay of Sprich
[8] Some thirty years later the
American President Eisenhower on the occasion of leaving his office warned of
the danger of what he called “the military-industrial complex” as a state
within a state, of which also President Kennedy warned, before he became in all
likelihood himself a fatal victim of “the deep state”. Also former President
Trump mentioned it often, for which he was often enough ridiculed as a
conspiracy theorist by the MSM, as is anyone who comes out into the open with
this accusation.
[9] See: Charter of Humanity – The Principles of the General Anthroposophical
Society as a Basis of Life and Path of Training by Herbert Witzenmann (http://Charter-of-Humanity.blogspot.nl)
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