Standing before the flames that enveloped the double-domed, wooden, first Goetheanum, what was going through the mind of Rudolf Steiner and what was he, as an initiate, able to bring away from that experience? Like finding the diamond that is created out of coal, let us attempt, in a humble way, to find our way into the dark core of this event to the spiritual flame of illumination at its heart. Was the fire that burnt the first Goetheanum the catalyst for the monumental changes that Rudolf Steiner initiated in the few remaining years of his life that were so amazingly productive? I believe the answer is yes. With this in mind, let us ask ourselves: What might be the significance of the burning of the Goetheanum for the 100^th anniversary of the re-founding of the Anthroposophical Society? 

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