Remembering

The spiritual gift is in my soul now and I must now develop myself to be able to enclose it with my memory. It is a spiritual act that has to be performed. Memory is not only content, it is also a capability. Now I will have to try to use this capability to embower the gift with it. Doing this will strengthen the forces of my self and wake them in my inner. Remembering the spiritual gift will give me to myself while ever more becoming myself.

Mysteriously enclosing the newly received
with remembering
Shall be the further significance of my quest:
It shall, strengthening, awaken
Forces of the self in my inner life
And becoming give myself to me.
 
Geheimnisvoll das Neu-Empfang'ne
Mit der Erinnerung zu umschliessen,
Sei meines Strebens weitrer Sinn:
Er soll erstarkend Eigenkräfte
In meinem Innern wecken
Und werdend mich mir selber geben.

This verses were given by Rudolf Steiner in 1912 / 1913: Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender.