COLOFON AND LIST OF CONTENTS

This publication contains an annotated English translation of the two Memoranda that Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), founder of anthroposophy, submitted in July 1917 to the German and Austrian-Hungarian governments as a Central-European initiative to end World War I on the basis of the idea of the threefold social organism or social organics. This marked the inauguration of a new constitutional principle of civilization that culminated in the refoundation of the Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner and some 700-800 anthroposophists from around the world during the so-called Christmas Conference in Dornach, Switzerland in 1923/24, but it has as such not been recognized, let alone instituted.

The first edition of this publication was presented as study material during an international, trilingual Pentecost conference entitled “The New Knowledge Christianity – The Christmas Conference as Emergence into the 6^th Cultural Age and What Has Become of It” that took place on May 27, 28 and 29, 2022 in the Elisabeth Vreede House in The Hague.

The original German versions of these Memoranda are in Aufsätze über die Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus und zur Zeitlage 1913-1921 by Rudolf Steiner, Dornach 1961.

Translated, introduced, and annotated by Robert J. Kelder and published as a manuscript by the Willehalm Institute for Anthroposophy as Grail Research, Royal Art and Social Organics in Amsterdam that has also organized the above-mentioned conference as well as an exhibition of the paintings by Jan de Kok and the texts from the book The Virtues - Seasons of the Soul by Herbert Witzenmann that opened on May 23 and will last to June 3.

LIST OF CONTENTS

I – FOREWORD – The Putin Doctrine as a Consequence of the Failure of Rudolf Steiner’s Memoranda to be Heeded

II – INTRODUCTION – The Path from Trias Politica to Trias Organica

III - SOCIAL ORGANICS IN THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF RUDOLF STEINER’S SOCIAL IMPULSE

IV - “THE EGG OF COLUMBUS”- The Inaugural Phase of the Macro-social Form of Social Organics in 1917

V. - THE FIRST MEMORANDUM - Addressed to the German Government

THE SECOND MEMORANDUM – Addressed to the Austria-Hungarian Government

THE SECOND MEMORANDUM (first version of July 22, 1917) 

VI - The Second Phase in the Development of the Macro-social Form of the New Constitutional Principle of Civilization from 1919 to 1922

VII - The Third Phase of the Macro-social Form of the New Principle of Civilization from 1922 to the Present

VIII - The Fourth Phase - the Meso-social Form of the New Constitutional Principle of Civilization

IX - TOWARDS A WORLD PEACE UNION OF OASES OF HUMANITY

APPENDICES

I - An Award-winning Scientific Work on the History of the Outbreak of the First World War – Book review by Rudolf Steiner

II - PREFACE BY RUDOLF STEINER FROM 1919 TO THE BOOK 

The Entente - Freemasonry and the World War by Karl Heise

IV - CRISIS AND ALTERNATIVE - Contextual Justice and Judicious Context in Rudolf Steiner’s Social Organics, by Herbert Witzenmann

V - "THE CREATION OF AN OVERWORLD –Social Aesthetics Is the Science of the Future", by Herbert Witzenmann

VI. FOUNDING STATUTES OF THE GENERAL ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

VI. Images of the FIRST and SECOND GOETHEANUM

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