liturgy of the seasons (44)
a weekly translation of Rudolf Steiner’s Seelenkalender verse
IN 1912-1913, 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-FOURTH WEEK OF THE YEAR 44. Ergreifend neue Sinnesreize Erfüllet Seelenklarheit, Eingedenk vollzogener Geistgeburt, Verwirrend sprossend Weltenwerden Mit meines Denkens Schöpferwillen. ∇∆ LO! the shimmering weft of senses which Nature left before the seeing soul, behold the Spirit sprouting from the Earth to scale an airy ladder, deftly wrought of my own self-willed and self-creating thought
