Calendar of the Soul: The Year Participated (CW 40) (Meditations) - Softcover

Steiner, Rudolf

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855841886 ISBN 13: 9781855841888

Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press, 2006

Synopsis

In listening to the changing language of the year, said Rudolf Steiner, we can rediscover our individual nature. These meditative verses―one for each week of the year―help awaken a feeling of unity with nature while also stimulating self-discovery. Through intensive work, Steiner’s unique meditations will lead to a greater feeling of unity with the surrounding world.

This budget-priced pocket version features Owen Barfield’s pioneering translation― “paraphrased for an English ear” ―based on more than fifty years studying this text. As Barfield asserts, no simple translation can convey the real thrust of these verses. Because of this, he tries to “suggest” rather than simply reproduce the original in exact English translations.

The Calendar of the Soul is a translation of “Anthroposophischer Seelenkalender,” included in Wahrspruchworte (GA 40).

About this title

About the Author:

Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) was born in the small village of Kraljevec, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), where he grew up (see right). As a young man, he lived in Weimar and Berlin, where he became a well-published scientific, literary, and philosophical scholar, known especially for his work with Goethe’s scientific writings. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he began to develop his early philosophical principles into an approach to systematic research into psychological and spiritual phenomena. Formally beginning his spiritual teaching career under the auspices of the Theosophical Society, Steiner came to use the term Anthroposophy (and spiritual science) for his philosophy, spiritual research, and findings. The influence of Steiner’s multifaceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, various therapies, philosophy, religious renewal, Waldorf education, education for special needs, threefold economics, biodynamic agriculture, Goethean science, architecture, and the arts of drama, speech, and eurythmy. In 1924, Rudolf Steiner founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world. He died in Dornach, Switzerland.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

WINTER:

To carry spirit light into the world-winter-night / My heart is ardently impelled, / That shining seeds of soul / Take root in grounds of worlds / And Word Divine through senses' darkness / Resounds, transfiguring all life.

SUMMER

To bear in inward keeping spirit bounty / Is stern command of my prophetic feeling, / That ripened gifts divine / Maturing in the depths of soul / To selfhood bring their fruits.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1855841886
• ISBN 13: 9781855841888
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64