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101. Occult Signs and Symbols: Lecture III 15 Sep 1907, Stuttgart
Translated by Sarah Kurland, Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
Proceeding further, we find the German mystics in the region of the Rhine, through whom an inner warmth poured itself out over great numbers of people. Not only did the highest of the clergy experience it, but also those who worked on the land and in the smithies.
261. Our Dead: Eulogies for Herman Joachim, Olga von Sivers and Johanna Arnold 21 Aug 1917, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
Not only was Johanna Arnold a strong support for her branch and neighboring circles during her time in the Anthroposophical Movement, not only did she have such a beautiful effect in the Rhine area, in connection with many other personalities — one of whom was recently also snatched from us into the spiritual realm: Mrs.
19. Thoughts during the Time of War
Translated by Daniel Hafner

Rudolf Steiner
The last report that the dying one received was that delivered by the son, of Blucher's crossing of the Rhine, of the advance of the allies against the French enemy. The soul wresting itself from the thinker's body lived entirely in the profound joy over these events; and as the formerly icy-sharp thinking passed over in the dying one into fever fantasies, he felt himself among the midst of the fighters.
We already had to do with France centuries ago, we shall still have to do with it in centuries. ... the younger generation in France is raised in the belief that it has a sacred right to the Rhine, and that it has the mission of making it the border of France at the first opportunity. The Rhine border must become a truth, that is the theme for the future of France.”
64. From a Fateful Time: The Supporting Power of the German Spirit 25 Feb 1915, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
For example, Father Melchior is described in the following way: “He was a smooth-talker, well built, if a little plump, and the type of what is considered classical beauty in Germany: a broad, expressionless forehead, strong regular features and a curly beard: a Jupiter from the banks of the Rhine.” Then, to characterize Melchior's friends, how they gathered at the father's house and played and sang there together: “Occasionally they would sing together in a four-part male choir one of those German songs that, one like the other, move along with solemn simplicity and in flat harmonies, ponderously, as it were, on all fours.”
And perhaps it is what these young French say about the Germans that is so appealing on this side of the Rhine. Olivier tells Johann Christof about the young French's particular view of the nature of official Paris and about what he used to polemicize against like the others: "The best among us are shut out, imprisoned on our own soil...
293. The Study of Man: Lecture IX 30 Aug 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by Daphne Harwood, Helen Fox

Rudolf Steiner
He said that even as far back as the 1890's, if you were to go to the Rhine in the neighbourhood of Essen, and walking down the street were to meet people coming out of the factories, you would have the feeling: no one of these people is different from another; I am really looking at one single person who is coming out like a picture in a duplicating machine; it is impossible to distinguish these people from one another.
70a. The Human Soul, Fate and Death: The Supernatural Cognition and Its Strengthening Soul Power in Our Fateful Time 17 May 1915, Linz

Rudolf Steiner
He tells us that even in the feverish dreams of this most German of philosophers, this world philosopher, he experienced at the same time – and his experience was so great – what was being experienced in Central Europe at the time, when he was already In his feverish dreams, Fichte felt he was part of the army at Blücher's crossing of the Rhine; and he was completely immersed in it, he, the philosopher, who strove throughout his life in the most sober, most detached, most crystal-clear thinking.
Perhaps one may answer with a question to characterize how thought and logic are applied today: Did Bergson expect that when Central European culture was attacked, people would stand at the Rhine border and quote Schiller and Goethe to prove that Central European culture had remained spiritual?
70a. The Human Soul, Fate and Death: The “Barbarians” of Schiller and Fichte 01 Dec 1914, Munich

Rudolf Steiner
Oh, it is very characteristic: in the feverish delirium of his last hours, he felt - Johann Gottlieb Fichte - his soul at the battlefields, at the crossing of the Rhine, which was just taking place under Blücher. His thoughts were absorbed in the feverish fantasy of participating in the war.
Dear attendees, compared to what one could know by looking at the driving forces of Europe with a gaze that is strengthened by the essence that has reached its highest level in Schiller, Fichte and Goethe – looking at these forces means recognizing that the answer to what has recently been heard again from across the Rhine must be given in a completely different way: Who wanted this war, those of mine who want to answer this question themselves?
7. Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age: Agrippa of Nettesheim and Theophrastus Paracelsus
Translated by Karl E. Zimmer

Rudolf Steiner
After me, and I not after you, you of Paris, you of Montpellier, you of Swabia, you of Meissen, you of Cologne, you of Vienna, and whatever lies on the Danube and the river Rhine, you islands in the sea, you Italy, you Dalmatia, you Athens, you Greek, you Arab, you Israelite; after me, and I not after you!
70a. The Human Soul, Fate and Death: The Rejuvenating Power of the German National Soul 06 Mar 1915, Leipzig

Rudolf Steiner
And strangely, Fichte, the clear-thinking, diamond-bright philosopher, he guided in his soul, which was completely occupied with the spirit that reigns through the German being, his philosophical thoughts in such a way that he believed himself outside on the battlefields, in the midst of the armies, as Blücher's Rhine crossing took place. Thus we see a confluence of the highest intellectual development even in the feverish fantasies of a dying German.
That was the case when, after the republican masters of the West, of that West that claims today that it had to fight against the German “barbarians”, when these masters, just as the masters of the West today - of course, they did it in their opinion back then and they also do it today for the freedom and for the rights of the people - went to war. These gentlemen invaded the Lower Rhine region and the Dutch territories. We can see these gentlemen ravaging palaces, churches, monasteries, and everything in their path.
The Way of Initiation (1960 reprint): The Personality of Rudolf Steiner and His Development

Edouard Schuré
Great discussions and petty wranglings divided the theosophists beyond the Rhine. Should Rudolf Steiner enter the Theosophical Society? This question forced itself urgently upon him, and it was of the utmost gravity, both for himself and for his cause.

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