Relating to Rudolf Steiner: and the Mystery of the Laying of the Foundation Stone

Even within the Anthroposophical Society and movement, people's relationship to Rudolf Steiner is weakening and dissipating.This is problematic, says Prokofieff, as the future of both the Society and movement is dependent on a sufficient number of people aspiring to and realizing a true spiritual connection with anthroposophy's founder, Rudolf Steiner.Prokofieff deals in detail with the issues surrounding this concern, and asks the question, "Can one be an anthroposophist without being Rudolf Steiner's pupil?" In the second part of this book Prokofieff elaborates on the mysteries surrounding the laying of the spiritual Foundation Stone at the Society's Christmas Meeting of 1923-24.This event, he suggests, ensured that a personal relationship to Rudolf Steiner "would not remain within the realm of the generally abstract or intellectual, but would become a real inner deed".Thus Rudolf Steiner gave each of us the possibility of connecting with him by way of free inner work on the Foundati