The spirit child within my soul
I feel freed of enchantment.
In heart-high gladness has
The holy cosmic Word engendered
The heavenly fruit of hope,
Which grows rejoicing into worlds afar
Out of my being’s godly roots.
Rudolf Steiner, Calendar of the Soul, Christmas
This hour of sunless gloom
Evokes a forceful impulse in the soul
To open and reveal the strength in her,
To make her way into the darkest places
And there what senses later shall impart
Feel as a telling warmth about the heart.
Rudolf Steiner, Calendar of the Soul
Light – is it Sunlight? – out from Spirit-deeps
struggles to shine;
translated into lively strength of will
clear through the cloudiness of sense it burns,
releasing energy that turns
passionate drives into creative thrust
that ripens into work amongst mankind
Rudolf Steiner, Calendar of the Soul, Thirty-first week
Henceforth be all my aim
to wrap secretive memory around
the New conceived within me,
waking and making strong
powers that to me belong
so that I grow up to become Myself.
Rudolf Steiner, Calendar of the Soul, August 11 – 17