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Text by Roland Tüscher, translated by me The leadership and the general secretaries of the General Anthroposophical Society have advised for the revalidation of Paul Mackay and Bodo von Plato as members of the Coucil (Vorstand) and have communicated to the members the positive result of the deliberation. We learn nothing about the content of the discussions, about the fundaments of the result. (1) Communicating the result of the deliberation is linked to the proposal towards the members, from the Council, the leadership and general secretaries at the Goetheanum, “for a new term” of these two persons. It is inadequate, with an authoritarian tendency as well as arrogant, for the “most free Society in the world”, that the members are kept in dark regarding the essential motives, when the general secretaries completely hide the lack of unity regarding this continuation (2), when any justification is omitted, while the members are encouraged to have a certain voting behaviour. Thus we ...

Hans Hasler was an adviser and some kind of butler of Paul Mackay . He would make a lot of decisions from the shadow, always turning things the way Mackay wanted to. He was in charge of the treasury at the Goetheanum and was putting a lot of people out of their jobs at one point, with not so much as a thank you.

Georg Glöckler is the "head emeritus" of the Section for Mathematics and Astronomy at the Goetheanum. On a specific occasion, I noticed he continualy refers to his more famous wife, Michaela Glöckler , head of the Medical Section. Even though the discussion was not at all about his personal family ties. Otherwise, being asked specific questions, he would avoid the answer, instead giving general advice such as: "One should always work" or "Be active!"

Norwegian lady Elizabeth Wirsching has been head of the Youth Section at the Goetheanum for many years. She was constantly flying teens around the world, who were not reading a word from Steiner, but wanted to see and organize things. Some of them she even hired, as they were spending quite a lot of money at that time. Unfortunately, the spiritual concepts were entirely absent for many of them.

They say that when Cornelius Pietzner was in the Vorstand of the Gotheanum, he used to plan a lot of lectures in exotic countries and islands with small anthroposophic branches. Then he would take his wife and children, would leave in his shorts, and he would thus have lots of holidays on the dime of the members of the Anthroposophical Society, of course.

How many times have you heard this phrase, participating in an event at the Goetheanum? At the end of the conference, everybody seems satisfied and they conclude always: "It's a new beginning". Well, when is this beginning going to develop? Or will it always remain the same beginning? No one knows.

They say that a fat and crazy French lady has written with pink spray at the entrance of the Goetheanum that Paul Mackay is unloving ("Paul Mackay ist lieblos"), a statement which is not at all unlikely.