Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00380)

Philip writes
> Bruce- you mentioned that Steiner was eventually vindicated by
> Krishnamurti. I would like to have your source for this statement- not
that
> I doubt your veracity, but if I use it myself would need to know where it
> came from.
As you know Steiner had a problem with the OSE as did many older members of
the T.S., since its establishment was outside the three objects of the
Society. He was vindicated in the sense that K. himself disolved the Order
in 1929.

> As I understood the Steiner problem of the time and quoting from
> Ransom's TS History- 'Dr. Steiner had refused admission of individuals
and
> Lodges which did not work in the methods he considered best for the
German
> Section. In conjunction with the German Section Executive, he had
> unconstitutionally expelled from the National Society memebers belonging
> also to the Order of the Star in the East (see Titteilunger, March 1913).
> Such expulsion was invalid, as no memebr can be expelled for his
opinions.'
> (p.398-9).
1912 " In December of the same year the executive of the German Section,
which did not include Rudolf Steiner himself, decided that membership of
the OSE was incompatible with membership in the section led by Rudolf
Steiner, and called upon all members to choose. With few exceptions all
chose to abandon their membership in the OSE...."
"The same executive then sent a telegram to Annie Besant at Adyar, calling
on her to resign as president, to which she replied by cancelling the
charter of the German Section...."
Rudolf Steiner biography by Stewart Easton

 With the foundation of the Anthroposophical Society Rudolf Steiner stayed
on as teacher and guide but did not become a member.

XXX
Bruce