The Theosophists

You will search in vain for the secret of Rudolf Steiner in his anthroposophical writings. You find it in the contacts he held to influential circles. As with Marx, the writings of Rudolf Steiner are only widespread gibberish for an audience that could become dangerously dangerous politically if it were given the opportunity and inspiration for fundamental insights.

In addition to cultivating important contacts, Steiner also had the task of this audience of esotericists, who are driven by the quite correct idea that our fate is often determined by hidden influences and we should know and study them better, to discourage all important considerations and dangerous investigations with the illusion of mysterious findings in endless lectures and writings. Anthroposophy fulfills this purpose so well that it may even run its own schools. Unfortunately, the esotericists have become what they are today: victims of lazy magic and empty chatter.

The traditional and influential Moltke family had long been the target of Anglo-American intelligence. Unfortunately, there was no organization in Germany that would have noticed anything like that, and several branches of the Moltke family were already under foreign influence long before 1914.

The mother of Helmuth James Graf von Moltke (1907-45) was the daughter of the Supreme Judge of the South African Union, James Rose Innes . The wedding took place in Pretoria and Helmuth Count von Moltke (not to be confused with Generaloberst Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke), called by his wife “Young Teuton”, later became involved in Christian Schience, His wife Dorothy, along with Ete von Trotha, also joined the movement, and the couple visited Boston headquarters from August 1911 to March 1912 .

That was no coincidence: Eliza von Moltke-Huitfeldt, the wife of the colonel-general, saw herself  cured of an illness by the prayers of a propagandist of this Christian Science –  Frances Thurber Seal , and could also have her naivety husband for this organization surrounding Moltke delight. Thus it came to the contact of the chief of the Prussian General Staff with Rudolf Steiner and probably the betrayal of all the important secrets of the General Staff to the British and French.

Below are small excerpts from an interesting source, which deals with the war decisive Marnschlacht 1914, the chief of the Prussian General Staff Colonel General Helmuth von Moltke and Rudolf Steiner.

The medium not mentioned below is a Lisbeth Seidler, who is said to have prophesied to General Moltke the Great War. Moltke was in contact with Rudolf Steiner at the same time. The impressive prophecies of such media and their seemingly possible only with real magic knowledge of the hidden secrets of their target persons, with which they are voluntarily overwhelmed and no longer have to be blackmail, owe the media usually the respective intelligence service, such as the British, for whom decades ago a maid of the later Colonel-General had worked; where do you then know the things that could have been revealed only by supernatural powers of the medium used.

Without an intelligence service in the background, these media would not be able to impress their target person with any secret knowledge about past or future events, just as if we ourselves wanted to try that with a key figure today without proper instruction.

But thanks to the Secret Service, even a Lisbeth Seidler can easily predict the next war, and she even knows what drove little Helmuth to the Kindsbet.

Some sensationalist newspapers outwitted themselves on the occasion of the death of a spiritist medium and the performance of Cremers’ play “The Battle of the Marne,” in the dishonor of insults, distortions, and slurs.

Marie Steiner, Helmuth von Moltke and Rudolf Steiner (PDF), “The Goetheanum”, 12th Gen., No. 10, March 5, 1933

Helmuth von Moltke and even more his wife had taken up with Rudolf Steiner. Allegedly, the Chief of the General Staff had sought the philosophical conversation with Rudolf Steiner and even met him during the first month of the war on 27 August 1914 in Koblenz. Christoph Lindenberg describes the journey (Rudolf Steiner A Biography, p. 572):

… So Steiner followed the wish of the Chief of the German General Staff to visit him. On a roundabout way, making stops in Stuttgart and Mannheim, so that one could not already see from the ticket where the journey went, he drove to Koblenz, where in those days the Great Headquarters was.

Steiner then met with Helmuth von Moltke in a private house in Koblenz, so as not to cause a stir. Unfortunately, we do not learn from the book by Christoph Lindenberg where and by whom and why Rudolf Steiner had learned such a conspiratorial behavior. The fact that the author does not wonder about it shows only that he obviously knows more about Steiner than he tells his readers.

The Battle of the Marne broke off Helmuth von Moltke prematurely on September 9, he was also very bad health, whereupon he got on September 14, the leadership of the military operations deprived. On 3 November 1914 Erich von Falkenhayn became Moltke’s successor. In June 1916 Moltke died of a stroke.

The meeting Moltkes with Rudolf Steiner in the first weeks of the war had aroused quite suspicious in this wakeful circles and Steiner was even suspected of being responsible for his premature and hasty termination of the Battle of the Marne with his influence on Colonel General Moltke, which Steiner denied:

In the month of August I saw General von Moltke once, on the 27th of August in Koblenz. Our conversation was about purely human affairs. The German army was still in full triumph. There was no need to talk about what was not there yet. The Battle of the Marne unfolded later.

I had not seen Moltke until then. It took place under conditions which had to shake Moltke’s expectations to the absolute minimum. During the rehearsal maneuvers, he had several times made a cautious advance on the right wing, which might have been considered in a march on Paris. Three times Kluck, who was in charge of the right wing, moved too fast. Every time Moltke said to him If you advance just as fast at the crucial moment, we will lose the war in an emergency. When Kluck’s army threatened to surround him, Moltke found himself seized with a terrible foreboding. The idea arose: the war could be lost for Germany.

(PDF, Rudolf Steiner, p. 71/72)

If you have read above exactly, you will also have noticed that Steiner was even informed about the course of the trial maneuvers. When he got told so exactly by Moltke, whether much later or in time to pass on to interested circles, we do not know and probably only know the MI6. It could be deduced from Steiner’s passage quoted below that he was informed by Moltke only in November 1914:

It may be objected to the publication of these records that the final sentence is: “They should be intended only for my wife and never be known to the public.” This was written by Herr von Moltke in November 1914 in Homburg, where this one Transcript has arisen. There is nothing in these communications which I did not hear in November and later by M. de Moltke and for which I never received an obligation of concealment.

(PDF, Rudolf Steiner, p. 30)

For the confidential relationship of the Colonel-General to Steiner was blamed by the German side of the occult ideas leaning woman who had imposed the Rudolf Steiner her husband. He had always rejected Rudolf Steiner and only in November 1914 in Homburg, after the loss of his command, Rudolf Steiner into his confidence. Rudolf Steiner also contradicted that:

I have been in the house of Herr von Moltke since 1904. I was invited to every single visit. The invitation did not just come from Frau von Moltke, but also from Herr von Moltke. I have the utmost reverence for Herr von Moltke. But I never forced myself. The conversations, which often lasted many hours, always included worldview questions. Herr von Moltke was just enlightened enough to see that my world view of all nebulous mysticism is quite distant and wants to rest on the basis of certain knowledge. …

This relationship existed since 1904 by M. von Moltke to me; and it has not changed the least with my visit to Homburg, also on invitation. From the visit to Homburg until his death he gave me no less and no more faith than ten years before.

(PDF, Rudolf Steiner, p. 80/81)

Steiner was indeed at this time, in which especially the women of the better circles had succumbed to the boldest activities of the occult, a comparatively rational spokesman of esotericism in Germany who was averse to the worst of spinsters and frauds. Therefore, he was probably appointed in 1904 to the head of the German Theosophists and at the same time introduced to the Moltke family. A Helene Blavatsky with her jugglers would not have been accepted in these circles. Presumably, Helmuth von Moltke did not ask who exactly selected and supplied him with such a suitable interlocutor. Really the coincidence?

In May 1919, Rudolf Steiner, together with the widow of the colonel-general from his records of the first days of the war, completed a booklet entitled “The guilt of war” (pdf). In the preface to this pamphlet, Rudolf Steiner declared the Germans the culprits of the Great War:

It will be understood why, from such preconditions, the following sentence is written in these notes: “Germany did not bring about the war, it did not enter into it out of a desire for conquest or out of aggressive intentions against its neighbors. – The war has been imposed upon him by his adversaries, and we fight for our national existence, for the survival of our people, of our national life. “… Just as conditions prevailed, military thinking in Germany could not come to a different conclusion , And by that judgment, it was condemned to conflict with the rest of the world.

Out of misfortune the German people will have to learn that his thinking must be different in the future. Militarily, the war had to be considered necessary, politically it could not be justified.

How tragic it is that a man must turn to a deed whose responsibility makes his heart bleed, which he must consider his sacred duty; and which outside Germany had to be regarded as a moral misconduct, as the intended cause of the war.

(PDF, Rudolf Steiner, p. 25/26)

At the time, Germany had long since been forced into war by England, France and Russia, and only a child’s head could seriously plead in this military situation over the violation of Belgian neutrality. But Steiner’s connections to England are likely to rule out the child’s head. In his judgment, Steiner relies on the Schlieffen plan implemented by Moltke, ie the passage through neutral Belgium in order to avoid the French positions. This justification of the German war debt is only rhetoric:

Thus the records are the perfect proof that the military judgment as such, and not the completely inadequate political judgment of 1914, caused the war from the German side, but the fact that no German policy existed which excluded the military judgment could prevent. Only by such a policy could anything other than happen in 1914 have happened. So these records are a terrible indictment of this policy. This realization must not be hidden.

(PDF, Rudolf Steiner, p. 29/30 )

If the Englishmen had not already engaged Rudolf Steiner long before, at the latest for this booklet in 1919 and in keeping with the Versailles dictation, they would have had to appoint him as an honorary member of their Secret Service or the British War Propaganda Office. It must not have escaped Steiner that the British Empire for decades sought to destroy this socially and in the fields of economy and science as well as culture so successful German Reich and served for the French and Russia. The French wanted to retaliate for 1871 and had invested in Russia a lot of money for this coming war, what Moltke addressed in his records and was known on the German side.

The war on two fronts had been reckoned on the General Staff for years. It was clear enough that it would become necessary at the moment when the rivalry between Russia and Austria in the Balkans would lead to an open conflict. We all knew that France, along with the Tsarist empire, to whom it had provided its billions for better preparation for the war, would absolutely participate in it.

(PDF, Moltke, p. 36)

The Tsar and his government reckoned with a slight victory on the side of England and France. This victory was intended to balance the defeat of 1905 against Japan and serve as a distraction from the internal problems that had led to a revolutionary uprising in 1905. Since the German peacekeeping policy could do nothing more.

Moltke’s interesting accounts reveal how German mobilization almost failed because of a British illusion. England would guarantee France’s neutrality in a war against Russia, if Germany did not take hostile measures against France, the German Ambassador in London had reported to the Kaiser, who first believed it and wanted to stop the mobilization against France against Moltke’s objections.

On demand, the British crown knew nothing of such a promise and the emperor gave a few hours late Moltke free hand for the proposed actions after the Schlieffenplan. The really readable records Moltkes completely contradict the allegations of Rudolf Steiner and prove the preparation of the Great War by England and France from a very long hand. It is hard to imagine that Helmuth von Moltke, had he read the Foreword by Steiner, would have spoken to this man once again.

In October 1921, the well-known French journalist and anthroposophist Jules Sauerwein, who had personally known Steiner since 1906 and translated and published some of his works for the French before 1914, published an interview with Steiner on the front page of the great nationalist newspaper Le Matin the headline: “A Light on the Causes of the War.” The unpublished and forbidden in Germany memoirs of the Chief of Staff of Moltke concerning.”