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Buch "koberwitz 1924" mira/sophia
Koberwitz 1924 was far more than an agricultural seminar — it was an esoteric initiation of the Earth itself, centered on what Rudolf Steiner called the living Sophia-intelligence permeating the soil. The 'Mira' or 'light-root' (Fénygyökér / Dioscorea batatas) cultivated in its aftermath was understood by Steiner's inner circle as a plant carrying a direct cosmic-etheric signature. The Keyserlingk lineage treated the entire impulse as a Sophianic mystery, not agronomic technique.
Evidence
- The so-called 'light-root' impulse (documented in Adalbert von Keyserlingk's account of the 1924 course) traces directly to this event.
- Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, Steiner's foremost scientific collaborator, later brought specimens to the United States, while Jamaican examples were also incorporated — remarkable because Dioscorea batatas is traditionally venerated in Jamaica as a spiritually significant plant.
- Adalbert von Keyserlingk, recalling his mother Johanna's family accounts decades later, revived the cultivation experiments in Dornach in the 1950s.
- According to that record, in October 1924 Johanna von Keyserlingk encouraged Wolfgang Wachsmuth and his brother Günther Wachsmuth to meet Steiner personally to receive precise guidance on a specific plant — its location, description, and cultivation.
- Wolfgang Wachsmuth subsequently obtained two root tubers from China, which were planted in the experimental garden of the Goetheanum's Free School of Spiritual Science in Dornach, Switzerland.