liturgy of the seasons (6)

a weekly translation of Rudolf Steiner’s Seelenkalender verse

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.

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BORN in pain of separation
my newborn sense of self arises
and anon its cosmic likeness recognises
in the powers that weave both space & time
as World revelation
wrought from Form divine:
the perfect mirror of Truth

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