In this week the highlight of the winter period turns to the world of the senses, not yet as a full activity, but in interlacing the senses with the power of thought. It is the first reverence of thinking to the sense-world: bringing the senses to full clarity.... read more...
We could say that we reach full clearness of mind in this and in the coming week. Then will come the changing point. We still have enough thinking force and clearness to bear our thinking into the beginning growth of outward nature.... read more...
What we had experienced in the previous week becomes still stronger now. It is the warmth of the spirit that warms the winter-depths. What is sheen in the world, i.e. not real being, becomes power of true being now. It is the forces of the heart that give this power. We can learn to feel that the inner warmth, the fire of the so... read more...
The outer world still is dark, although the days lengthen steadily. Nature is quiet, it is her more mineral side that can be perceived. But in the inner life of the human being its own force can be felt strongly and this gives the desire to reveal it and to externalize it, to bring it outward. The warmth of the heart is a kind o... read more...
It is a wonderful image that lies in this verse. We feel the strong good power of the soul. She is imbued with spirit, with divine forces, and so she wants to bring these divine forces into the outer world by her deeds. She wants to give herself form, become a being that is formed so that she is able to transform herself in huma... read more...