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.
FORTY-FIRST WEEK OF THE YEAR 41. Der Seele Schaffensmacht, Sie strebet aus dem Herzensgrunde, Im Menschenleben Götterkräfte Zu rechtem Wirken zu entflammen, Sich selber zu gestalten In Menschenliebe und im Menschenwerke. ∇∆ THE soul’s poetic power abounding pulsing up and outward from its ground resounding from the heart’s foundation where force divine, enthusing human life in throbs, our selves will sculpt through deeds of love
The Soul's Poetic Power abounding!
This would seem to imply that "creative power", which the other three generally recognized sources of the Calendar of the Soul verses, i.e, Putsch, Mellett, Riedel, is largely a poetic rendition of the soul, and not prose. Yet, Steiner was very largely prose-oriented in a very logical and intellectual pattern. I think we touched on this when we were discussing the realm of Beauty, where the Soul goes at night while we sleep. We need the poetry, which knocks on the door of past lives, which lower Devachan veils while we sleep.