From 1933 to 1935, Ita Wegman was confronted by both Nazi fascism
and internal crises in the General Anthroposophical Society. During
those years, she traveled to Palestine in the fall of 1934
following a grave illness that nearly ended with her death. Her
correspondence during this period, as well as her notes on the
trip, reveal the great biographical importance to her of these
travels and indeed the whole scope of her spiritual experiences in
1934. Ita Wegman had unambiguous perspectives and a uniquely clear
view of both the political threat and her social-spiritual task
during this period. There was, however, a radical change in her
inner stance toward the opposition, aggression, and defamation she
encountered within anthroposophic contexts in reaction to her
intense, purely motivated efforts. She tried to live and work in
true accord with her inner impulses and, ultimately, with Rudolf
Steiner's legacy, especially within the anthroposophic movement.
Doing so, she increasingly found her way to her own distinctive and
uncompromising path. The author reveals the general nature of those
three years-a period whose distinctive spiritual and Christological
task and dramatic dangers Rudolf Steiner had foreseen in 1923: "If
these men the Nazis] gain government power, I will no longer be
able to set foot on German soil." Ita Wegman's efforts in 1933 to
confront the dark powers of National Socialism and the convulsions
in Dornach, which she experienced firsthand, as well as her
subsequent illness and the clarity of her "Christological
conversion" in 1934 to '35, reveal a very specific, intrinsically
comprehensible and forward-looking quality whose spiritual
signature is clearly prefigured in Rudolf Steiner's
spiritual-scientific predictions. In this book, Peter Selg focuses
exclusively on Ita Wegman, her development, and her words, simply
presenting the processes she went through and, implicitly, their
extraordinary spiritual nature, without any attempt at
interpretation. This focus arises from the governing premise that
the mysteries of a great life such as that of Ita Wegman reveal
themselves in the details. Tracing the subtle steps in her life
allow us deeper insight into Ita Wegman's being. She herself wrote,
"In general meetings or gatherings, people always understood me
poorly because I lacked a smooth way of expressing myself. But
people of goodwill always understood what I meant." This book was
originally published in German as Geistiger Widerstand und
Uberwindung. Ita Wegman 1933-1935 by Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach,
Switzerland, 2005.
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