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• BY JOHN CHAMBERS
On May 27 of this year, an unsuspecting
alien eavesdropping on
Earth from space might have
picked up the word “hallelujah,”
being shouted from all round the globe in a
strange language even an Earth-savvy alien
could hardly be expected to understand.
The occasion of this linguistically-incorrect
worldwide outburst of joy was the 100th anniversary
of the day Rudolph Steiner, founder of
the Anthroposophical Society and creator of an
art form called eurythmy, gave Lori Smits, his
first student in eurythmy, the first word-form:
“hallelujah.” Eurythmy is the art of “visible
speech” or “visible music”; it’s a kind of slow
dance wherein the eurythmist uses gestures to illustrate
words, concepts, and emotions. Rudolph
Steiner also created the Waldorf Schools,
a radical education alternative; it was from these
schools and spun-off separate schools of eurythmy,
scattered all over the world, that “hallelujah”
was shouted in eurythmy-talk, at exactly
the same time, by thousands of grateful students
and often their families, on May 27, 2012.
Steiner had long ago suggested that this word
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could be understood as a cleansing of the soul
to receive the spirit.
The strange art form of eurythmy was not
the least, or even the strangest, of Rudolph
Steiner’s many remarkable achievements. The
creator of Anthroposophy was born in 1861 in
Austria (he died in 1925), the son of a minor
railway employee. From an early age Rudolph
showed qualities of both clairvoyance and
high intelligence. The father, who’d missed a
proper education himself, greatly encouraged
the son in his studies. In 1879, the family
moved to Inzersdorf so that Rudolph could attend
the Vienna Institute of Technology. Here
he studied mathematics, physics, chemistry,
botany, biology, literature, and philosophy on
a scholarship. By 15 he had mastered Greek
and Latin. Then he withdrew from the university
to pursue intensive home study.
News of Steiner's brilliance spread. While
he was still in his mid-twenties the Goethe Institute
of Germany asked him to edit the scientific
section of the complete works of Johann
Wolfgang Goethe, Germany’s great cultural
hero and its greatest poet. Some academics had
noted the young man’s spiritual affinity with
Goethe. Steiner accomplished this gargantuan
task quickly and well. In 1891, at the age of 30,
he received a doctorate in epistemology (the
philosophy of knowing) from the University of
Rostock in Germany.
From childhood, Rudolph Steiner had constantly
been aware—as was true of William
Blake, Madame Blavatsky, Eileen Garrett, and
many other mystics and mediums—of the presence
of an all-pervading spirit world. As a boy
he constantly received what he called “mental
pictures”— images conveying knowledge of nonphysical
realities. Colin Wilson tells how
Steiner, at age 8, waiting in a railway station for
his father, saw a female relative walk by. She ignored
him while making strange gestures. The
boy knew intuitively that this was a spirit; he
later learned that the relative had committed
suicide moments before he saw her. When a
school friend died, Steiner unconsciously accompanied
him into the world beyond—or so
he concluded the next morning when he awoke
from an uncanny dream of a journey to an unknown
place. Later that day, he learned that his
friend had died.
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