A rose has sprung up
Christmas story Once upon a time there was … a very great Father-King. I have told you about Him before. He was – and always will be – the greatest King and the most powerful Father in the whole world. There was no one bigger and more powerful than him. He knew everything, even before […]
Gloria in Excelsis Deo
The thirteen holy nights in midwinter. In the ancient Mysteries, before Christ arrived on the earth, there already were feasts celebrated at the four seasonal highpoints of the year: Midwinter, spring, midsummer, autumn. In midwinter the soul is the enlightener of the physical body and because she is very near to the darkness of the […]
Worldwinternight
Although the tumult in the outer world goes on and on, we can ‘hear’ an oncoming silence too. ‘To bring spiritual light into world-winter-night aims blissfully my heart’s desire, That soul-seeds radiantRoot into foundations of the world,And divine Word in the darkness of the sensesSounds transfiguring through all being.’ (Rudolf Steiner, Calendar of the soul) […]
Sacrifice
Calendar of the soul 36, December 8-14 Calendar of the soul 17, July 28-August 3 In depths of my being speaks,Urging to revelation,Mysteriously the World-Word:Imbue the aims of your workWith the light of my Spirit,To sacrifice yourself through Me. The World Word,That I was allowed to leadInto soulgrounds, speaks:Imbue the depths of your […]
Creative drive of the soul
Calendar of the soul 35, December 1 -7 Calendar of the soul 18, August 4-10 Can I know the beingSo that it can find itself againIn the creative urge of the soul?I feel that power is granted to meTo live modestly my own self as a part into the World-Self. Can I widen my […]
The old-preserved
Calendar of the soul 34, November 24-30 Calendar of the soul 19, August 11-17 Mysteriously feeling the old-preserved with new arisen own being, in inner life revived: Shall, arousing, pour world forces, into the outer work of my life and becoming mould myself into existence. Mysteriously enclosing the newly receivedwith rememberingShall be the […]
The communion of my soul
Calendar of the soul 33, November 17-23 Calendar of the soul 20, August 18-24 Thus I feel at last the worldThat without the communion with my soulIn itself could only find frostily empty lifeAnd revealing itself without powerCreating itself in souls anew,Could find only death in itself. Thus I feel my beingThat far […]
To give myself to the world…
Calendar of the soul 32, November 10-16 Calendar of the soul 21, August 25-31 I feel how own fruiting force, Reinforcing, bestows itself on the world; My own being I perceive as gaining strength To turn to clear insight In weaving of the destiny of life. I feel how strange fruiting power,Reinforcing, bestows […]
Living force of will
Thirty-first Week (November 3-9) Twenty-second Week (September 1-7) The light from the depths of the spiritRadiates outwards like the sun:It becomes living force of willAnd shines in the dullness of the senses,To release forcesThat let creative powers from soul impulsesRipen in the work of the human being. The light from the widths of […]
Eversion
Calendar 30 Calendar 26 In the sunlight of my soul come Ripened fruits of thinking, In sureness of self-consciousness All feeling transforms itself. I can perceive full of joy The spiritual awakening of autumn: Winter will awaken in me The summer of the soul. Autumnally diminishes The stimulating quest of the senses; With […]