In the 1920s, Rudolf Steiner created a sort of liturgy of the natural and spiritual year in the form of fifty-two short verses. Experience—my own and others—testifies to the powerful effect that a short meditation on the relevant verse throughout the course of the year can have in respect to awakening and sensitizing the soul to each season’s unique quality and gesture.
Below is Dr. Steiner’s original Seelenkalender, or “Calendar of the Soul” verse for this week followed by my translation into English. I have opted to follow, whenever a conflict arose, the spirit over the letter in my translation efforts, attempting to convey the “mood” before the propositional content.
SIXTH WEEK OF THE YEAR
Es ist erstanden aus der Eigenheit Mein Selbst und findet sich Als Weltenoffenbarung In Zeit und Raumeskräften; Die Welt, sie zeigt mir überall Als Göttlich Urbild Des eignen Abbilds Wahrheit. ∇∆ BORN of pain in separation my newborn self-experience arises and soon its cosmic likeness recognises in the powers that weave both space & time as world revelation from archetype divine: the perfect mirror of inner truth.