Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Verse 50   Thus to the human ego speaks In mighty revelation, Unfolding its inherent powers, The joy of growth throughout the world: I carry into you my life From its enchanted bondage And so attain my truest goal. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans Pusch)...

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Verse 48   Within the light that out of world-wide heights Would stream with power toward the soul, May certainty of cosmic thinking Arise to solve the soul's enigmas — And focusing its mighty rays, Awaken love in human hearts. (Translated from German by Ruth and...

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Verse 41   The soul's creative might Strives outward from the heart's own core To kindle and inflame god-given powers In human life to right activity; The soul thus shapes itself In human loving and in human working. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans...

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Verse 18   Can I expand my soulThat it unites itselfWith cosmic Word received as seed?I sense that I must find the strengthTo fashion worthily my soulAs fitting raiment for the spirit. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans Pusch)   *****   Rudolf...

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Weekly verse from the Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English translation, and the original German, with an inspiring image.

Verse 6   There has arisen from its narrow limitsMy self and finds itselfAs revelation of all worldsWithin the sway of time and space;The world, as archetype divine,Displays to me at every turnThe truth of my own likeness. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans...

Rudolf Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul in English: Verse 5 for May 10-16, 2020

  VERSE 4   I sense a kindred nature to my own: Thus speaks perceptive feeling As in the sun-illuminated world It merges with the floods of light; To thinking's clarity My feeling would give warmth And firmly bind as one The human being and the world....

  VERSE 3   Thus to the World-All speaks, In self-forgetfulness And mindful of its primal state, The growing human I: In you, if I can free myself From fetters of my selfhood, I fathom my essential being. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans Pusch) *****...

  VERSE 2   Out in the sense-world's glory The power of thought gives up Its separate being, And spirit worlds discover Again their human offspring, Who germinates in them But in itself must find The fruit of soul. (Translated from German by Ruth and Hans...

  VERSE 1: Easter   When out of world-wide spaces The sun speaks to the human mind, And gladness from the depths of soul Becomes, in seeing, one with light, Then rising from the sheath of self, Thoughts soar to distances of space And dimly bind The human...