{"id":2331,"date":"2025-03-04T21:50:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T05:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2025-05-25T11:53:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T18:53:32","slug":"fairy-tale-goethe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/fairy-tale-goethe\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Das M\u00e4rchen\" von der gr\u00fcnen Schlange und der sch\u00f6nen Lilie \/ von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"},"content":{"rendered":"
“. . . the germinal seed of the anthroposophical movement”\u00a0<\/strong><\/h6>\n
–<\/a>– Rudolf Steiner<\/strong><\/h6>\n

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Cover Artwork: “Green Snake” by Marion Donehower (Visual Arts Section)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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Click Cover Photo to Preview or Purchase<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n

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“For those whose acquaintance with Goethe\u2019s “<\/em>The Fairy Tale” of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily \u00a0is through the 1832 translation by Thomas Carlyle, Bruce Donehower\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0new translation\u00a0\u00a0will be a breath of fresh air \u2013 contemporary, accessible and inviting.\u00a0\u00a0Donehower\u2019s afterword views the tale genially under the sign of friendship, and\u00a0\u00a0provides\u00a0\u00a0the reader with welcome permission to stop mining the text for significances, and just to enjoy.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0— Fred Dennehy, actor, playwright, and Class-holder\u00a0for the New York City branch of the School for Spiritual Science in North America.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe Germans, by the way, are such odd people! They make\u00a0life more difficult than is proper by looking for deep thoughts and ideas\u00a0everywhere and putting them into everything. \u2014Good gracious! Have the courage\u00a0for once to surrender yourselves to your\u00a0impressions, allow yourselves to be\u00a0captivated, moved, uplifted . . . but don\u2019t always think everything is vain\u00a0that isn\u2019t some abstract\u00a0thought or idea! \u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

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— Goethe, Conversations with Eckermann<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cI may say, it is actually so that [The Fairy Tale] is the archetypal seed of this Movement. It is important to be aware of this because tomorrow we take a significant step here at the Goetheanum. It is truly very beautiful \u2013 not the least for myself and for what I have had to do in connection with our Movement that on this occasion we relate this Movement to its inception. The Anthroposophical Movement came into existence through Goethe . . . \u201c<\/strong><\/p>\n

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—<\/em> Rudolf Steiner, from a lecture given September 25, 1920, Dornach<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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From the Afterword “Goethe in Paradise\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Mysterious Friendship<\/strong>
\nAs reported by Paul Marshall Allen, a significant moment in the biography of Rudolf Steiner occurred when he received from his teacher Karl Julius Schr\u00f6er a copy of Goethe\u2019s 1795 The Fairy Tale (often referred to as The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily) as a twenty first birthday present in 1882. As we know from several of Rudolf Steiner\u2019s remarks, Goethe\u2019s Kunstm\u00e4rchen played a decisive role in the development of Steiner\u2019s inner life. Schr\u00f6er played a similarly important role in Steiner\u2019s biography, as a teacher and as a friend. <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I went to call at Schr\u00f6er\u2019s little library, which was also his study, I felt that I was in a spiritual atmosphere in the highest degree beneficial to my inner life\u201d (66), Steiner wrote in The Course of My Life. And, in a letter dating from this period in Vienna, 1881, Steiner confessed: \u201cI thank God and a fortunate desti-ny that I have become acquainted with a man here in Vienna\u2014a person who, with the exception of Goethe, naturally\u2014may be counted as the most knowledgeable on Faust, a man whom I revere as a teacher, scholar, poet, and human being. His name is Karl Julius Schr\u00f6er\u201d (Lindenberg 70) . . .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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May 31, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“. . . the germinal seed of the anthroposophical movement”\u00a0 –– Rudolf Steiner     Click Cover Photo to Preview or Purchase   “For those whose acquaintance with Goethe\u2019s “The Fairy Tale” of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily \u00a0is through the 1832 translation by Thomas Carlyle, Bruce Donehower\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0new translation\u00a0\u00a0will be a breath of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-essays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7801,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/7801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theliteraryarts.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}