Calm of autumn

The heritage of summer is that we are able now to generate the shining of thinking ourselves, in our inner life. It is not a passive receiving of thoughts, but an active giving birth to them, again and again, continually. It dawns on us that thinking is conceiving the meaning of the realities of life; […]

Enigma

Not only a growing light and warmth I perceive in my inner life; I also feel that I gain possibilities to make my thinking stronger and stronger, so that it becomes ever more able to enlighten the enigma of life. The riddles that life gives me can be solved by this radiance of the soul-sun. […]

Autumn

Our way has turned around now. We don’t lose ourselves in the world, we find ourselves more and more in the depths of our being. There awakes a self-observing activity and we feel a foreboding that there will come a time when we will find ourselves by watching ourselves. Finding me means here that the […]

Michael

As we return to our body now, after summertime, we join the nature of our own body. We can feel now the nearness of mother nature, for we are part of her in so far as we are incarnated. The willpower bears her, it is said here. So we should not imagine that nature bears […]

The Depths of the soul have to stay awake

In spring and summer we lost the self to the shining light of the world; we gave it away to let grow without our doing something to it. Now we have got it back and it becomes more lightfilled every week. The greater the outward darkness, the stronger the inward light is. It will find […]

Fruit of willpower

Now the time comes of increasing activity of the soul. In spring and summer we had to give ourselves to the world, now the world gives itself to us – but we will have to become increasingly active. We cannot wait for the powers of the world to bring us the awareness of the self. […]

Summer has given itsef to me…

From the beginning of my occupation with these verses, already about thirty years ago, the verse of this second week in September has touched me deeply, as a sign of the beginning of the period in the year where the soul becomes active and where in the outer world the shining of our sense-perception becomes […]

Light of the Soul

Now the time comes that the light of the world, to which we raised ourselves in summer, returns to our inner being. The light of the world becomes light of the soul and we can experience it more and more in our inner life. The light of the soul is being worn to the depths […]

Inner fruit

The spiritual gift in the inner being of our souls is felt more clearly now, and I can perceive that it grows and bears fruit, that it is being given to my self, becoming stronger. It is not thinking that recognizes this power, nor is it everyday feeling. It is more like intuition, a foreboding […]

My Being

In this verse the principle of egoism is being felt deeply – and also the conquering of egoism that is a fact in this week. The self has lost itself – which has been achieved in the weeks after Easter, coming to this moment in August. Thus I feel my beingThat far from the being […]