The Illustrated Calendar of the Soul E-Book

Rudolf Steiner

• Herausgeber: Temple Lodge Publishing
• Kategorie: Ratgeber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 24

Beschreibung

Rudolf Steiner's beautiful meditative verses for the yearly cycle have been used by countless people over the years. Their purpose is to awaken a feeling of unity with nature, and at the same time to stimulate a discovery of self. In listening to the changing language of the year and awakening a profound sympathy for it, we can in turn discover our own individual nature. Steiner's original and unique meditations facilitate this process, leading to a healthy feeling of being at one with the natural world. This edition features Anne Stockton's 52 celebrated and evocative paintings, which are a wonderful complement to Steiner's text. Steiner's words are newly translated for this edition by John Thomson.

Leseprobe

THE ILLUSTRATED CALENDAR OF THE SOUL

Meditations for the Yearly Cycle

Rudolf Steiner

With 52 pictures by Anne Stockton

Translated by John B. Thomson

This edition is dedicated to Anne Stockton, 1910–2012

Temple Lodge Publishing

Hillside House, The Square

Forest Row, RH18 5ES

Published by Temple Lodge 2004

Reprinted 2012

Originally published in German under the title Wahrspruchworte (volume 40 in the Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe or Collected Works) by Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach. This authorized translation is published by permission of the Rudolf Steiner Nachlassverwaltung, Dornach

This translation © John B. Thomson 2004

Illustrations © Anne Stockton 1999

The moral rights of the translator and illustrator have been asserted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 912230 65 5

Cover painting by Anne Stockton, design by Andrew Morgan

Typeset by DP Photosetting, Aylesbury, Bucks.

Printed and bound in Malta by Gutenberg Press

PREFACE

The year has a life of its own, and the human soul can share in that life and become part of it. In listening week by week to the changing language of the year, the soul will find a way to discover also its own nature; it will realize how forces are stirring within its being and giving it new life and strength. Such forces are awakened if one develops a profound sympathy with the course of the year and all the meaning it brings to the changing world. Only through such sympathy can the soul become aware of the fine but significant threads that bind it to the world into which it is born.

In this Calendar the verse given for each week is intended to help the soul into an experience of that week as part of the life of the whole year. The Calendar is designed to express all that echoes in the soul when it unites itself with that life. It aims at creating a healthy feeling of at-one-ness with the goings-on of nature, and consequently a strong selfdiscovery, in the belief that to share in the yearly movement of the world, in the manner exemplified in these verses, is something for which the human soul has a deep longing, if only it understands its own nature.

Rudolf Steiner, 1918

TRANSLATOR’S NOTE