STEINER RUDOLF: (1861-1925) Austrian Philosopher & Social Reformer. A rare A.Q.S., Rudolf Steiner, o...

STEINER RUDOLF: (1861-1925) Austrian Philosopher & Social Reformer. A rare A.Q.S., Rudolf Steiner, on a small 8vo page removed from an autograph album, Goetheanum, Dornach, 7th December 1919, in German. Steiner has penned a proverb comprising thirteen lines, in full, 'In Urzeit Tagen / Trat zum Geist des Himmels / Der Geist des Erdenseins / Bittend sprach er: / Ich weiss zu reden / Mit dem Menschengeist; / Doch um jene Sprache auch / Flehe ich, / Durch die zu reden weiss / Das Weltenherz zum Menschenherzen. / Da schenkte der güt'ge Himmelsgeist / Dem bittenden Erdengeist: / Die Kunst'. Signed by Steiner to the right edge of the page. A few slight tape stains to the right edge, close to, but not affecting the signature and just touching part of the place. G Steiner's proverb, signed at the world centre for the anthroposophical movement in Switzerland, a building which he designed and named after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, is loosely translated as follows - 'In prehistoric days / came to the spirit of heaven / the spirit of being on earth / he asked pleadingly: / I know how to speak / with the human spirit; / But around that language too / I implore / Through whom knows how to speak / The world heart to the human heart. / Then the benevolent heavenly spirit gave / The earthly spirit asking: / Art'.