Dear Members and Friends of the Anthroposophical Society in Canada,

Who are you?

Who are we?

One hundred years ago Europe, and those distant peoples living under its colonial structures, had come out of one of the most violent and destructive periods ever witnessed by humanity, this period of the First World War. Powerful fracturing forces had been unleashed on human societies from the distant reaches of the Ottoman Empire to those of the British Empire stretching around the globe. The devastating impact upon the soul life of millions of individuals is impossible to comprehend.

In her beautiful backyard in London ON, Agnes Schneeberg hands me a dark blue book, hand-bound in linen and leather, the ivory-coloured pages smooth to the touch. It is part of the Chadwick Library Edition of Selected Written Works by Rudolf Steiner. For this exquisite series – with the editorial board consisting of Christopher Bamford, Michael Arlen Davis, Thomas O’Keefe, and Julia and Peter Selg – Agnes was entrusted with a new translation of “An Outline of Occult/Esoteric Science”.

Hello — my name is Eric Tardif, anthroposophist, multidisciplinary artist and independent researcher.

A few years ago during my studies in theology I discovered the existence of a group of heretics whose works of art immediately appealed to me. The group in question were the Bogomils. Originally from Bulgaria, they were victims of oppression by the authorities and as a result migrated to Bosnia. At first iconoclastic, they ended up developing a sculptural art that is surprising to say the least. Stones were erected on which were engraved signs, symbols, scenes of everyday life, elements of nature and more.I am doing a fundraising campaign; it is with the objective of raising funds to return to Bosnia and Herzegovina this coming fall and tour the various sites where the Steçak can be found.