It's all in how you slice itPI in the eye of: Albert Einstein, Georg Philipp Telemann, Victor Emmanuel II, Marie Steiner-von Sivers - Karl Marx, & George Eastman…
Eureka! The Greek letter Pi (π) is used in mathematics to represent Archimedes’ constant. Pi (π) = the ratio of the circumference (the distance around a circle) to its diameter (the length across the circle) - Truly a magic formula, since no matter how large or small the circle is, that ratio always works out to 3.14… AND PI is a never-ending number that goes on into infinity… So today let’s celebrate all things circular – We are infinite - We are eternal. And no matter how we slice it – there is always enough Pi (π) to go around. ~hag 3.14 is a very active day - it’s also the birthday of: Albert Einstein, Georg Philipp Telemann, Victor Emmanuel II, & Marie Steiner-von Sivers - & the Deathday of Karl Marx, & George Eastman…  Here is a recording of a biography of Marie Steiner-von Sivers for Applied Anthroposophy.
14 March 1867 - The birthday of Marie Steiner von Sivers – wife of Rudolf Steiner & one of his closest colleagues. She made a great contribution to the development of Anthroposophy, particularly in her work on the renewal of the performing arts – speech & drama, & the new art of Eurythmy. She was also chief editor & publisher of Rudolf Steiner’s literary estate.
Marie von Sivers was born to an aristocratic family in Włocławek, Poland, then part of Imperial Russia. When Marie was 7 years old, the family moved to the Baltic Sea, & after her father retired, the family moved to St. Petersburg & settled there. A small petite child of great skill & motivation. She was very receptive to the impressions of nature. Marie attended a German private school. The principal called her ‘the young Schiller’. Marie was very shortsighted when she was a young girl, but had a very sensitive, almost oversensitive hearing. At the age of 11, she began to recite poetry. She was well-educated; fluent in Russian, German, English, French & Italian. She studied theater & recitation with several teachers in Europe. Her family had a rather formal lifestyle based on aristocratic norms. Thinking was conservative & full of prejudice. They only associated with other rich German families. Marie found little understanding for her quest for higher values & life was made difficult for her to pursue these interests. Her parents wouldn’t allow her to be taught Greek, so she studied on her own. Her father died when she was 15 years, & as she was becoming a teenager she had a lot of conflict with her mother. At the age of 17, they traveled abroad, to Berlin, Vienna & Switzerland. A new world opened up for Marie. This began a long, 10-year period, in which she struggled to realize her goals in social life. She joined the women’s movement, fought for women’s right to education & for the establishment of women’s universities. She cared about social & hygienic improvements for the population & contributed to school foundations & charity events, where she also appeared as an actress in stage plays. She felt this to be her calling, but again family disappoval & her own misgivings of the ‘immoral nature’ of the profession made her turn away. After graduating from the German school, her family wouldn’t allow her to study linguistic & comparative religions like she wanted. She had to fight for permission to attend a Russian high school to obtain a teacher’s diploma. Afterwards she taught at a proletarian German school in St. Petersburg. There, she damaged her vocal cords & had to undergo surgery, making it difficult for her to speak for some time. She later considered this to be a karmic destiny forcing her to make speaking ‘organ-free’ according to Rudolf Steiner’s intentions. As life in the family became harder for Marie, she decided at age 22 to go live with her brother Jacob. She hoped to get closer to the meaning of life by working among the simple people. In her diary she wrote: ‘Where can I find the truth?’ Her brother’s estate was located in the so-called Waldai, a slightly hilly, swampy area south of Novgorod. Marie helped her brother manage the estate. She set up a hospital that worked with homeopathic remedies, & a vegetarian diet. She provided emergency aid to refugees & set up a Sunday school for the village children. But the population met the two rich idealists with distrust & rejection. They were confronted with superstitions of all kinds, & so only the Sunday school was really accepted by the population. Marie had a serious accident during this time: she fell down a staircase & injured herself so badly that she couldn’t move for several days. When her brother died a year later, she had to return to her family in St. Petersburg. She was now 25 years old.
The story goes that Marie von Sivers “appeared one day” at one of Rudolf Steiner’s early lectures in 1900. In the autumn of 1901, she posed the question to Steiner, “Would it be possible to create a spiritual movement based on Western Esoteric tradition and the impetus of Christ?” Rudolf Steiner later reported: With this, I was given the opportunity to act in a way that I had only previously imagined. The question had been put to me, and now, according to spiritual laws, I could begin to answer it.
Marie von Sivers assisted Steiner’s work out of her own financial resources, & in 1908 founded the Philosophical-Theosophical Press (later Philosophical-Anthroposophical) to publish Steiner’s work. Starting in 1912, Rudolf Steiner developed the art of Eurythmy - With Marie’s guidance, it developed in 3 directions: as a stage art, as an integral part of Waldorf pedagogy, & as a therapeutic method. Under her tutelage, two schools of Eurythmy were founded, in Berlin & in Dornach, Switzerland.
As part of her practical study of pure artistic speech, Marie von Sivers gave poetry recitals as introductions to Steiner’s lectures, & assisted him in the development of the 4 ‘Mystery Dramas’ (1910-1913). With her help, Steiner conducted several speech & drama courses with the aim of raising these forms to the level of true art.
On 24 December 1914, Marie von Sivers & Rudolf Steiner were married. She accompanied him & helped him as secretary, translator, editor, & organizer of his lecture tours & other public activities. Beginning in 1914, Steiner drew up a succession of wills each time naming Marie Steiner-von Sivers as heir to his entire work & property.
Frau Steiner held the highest grades in the Misraim Dienst ritual work of Mystica Aeterna, Rudolf Steiner’s select esoteric order. She was meant to head the ‘Second Class’ - taking the First Class of the School of Spiritual Science led by Ita Wegman, into the practical Michaelic ‘Cultus’.
In GA 12, 27, 126 Rudolf Steiner occultly invites us to contemplate Marie’s earlier incarnations, which he kept private, referring to her as ‘A Cosmic Being’ - the first beginning embodiment of Anthroposophia.
Marie collaborated with Steiner for the rest of his life & carried his work beyond his death in 1925, until her own death.
Marie Steiner-von Sivers died on December 27th 1948, after making a reconciliation with Ita Wegman, the 3rd person of their Karmic Trinity. ~hag
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Friday, 13 March 2026
It's all in how you slice it
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