The Rudolf Steiner Archive

Current Verse: Week 34

Geheimnisvoll das Alt-Bewahrte
Mit neuerstandnem Eigensein
Im Innern sich belebend fühlen:
Es soll erweckend Weltenkräfte
In meines Lebens Aussenwerk ergiessen
Und werdend mich ins Dasein prägen.

—Rudolf Steiner

Corresponding Verse: Week 19

Geheimnisvoll das Neu-Empfang'ne
Mit der Erinnerung zu umschliessen,
Sei meines Strebens weitrer Sinn:
Er soll erstarkend Eigenkräfte
In meinem Innern wecken
Und werdend mich mir selber geben.

—Rudolf Steiner

In mystery, the bygone treasure
To feel with newly risen selfhood
Revived within my inner life:
Into my life's external deeds,
In sparking cosmic forces, it shall pour,
Evolving, grave me in existence.

—Tr. Daisy Aldan

In mystery, what I received
To sheathe within my memory,
Be further meaning of my striving:
In gaining strength it shall awaken
The forces of my self within,
Evolving, give myself to me.

—Tr. Daisy Aldan

Secretly wrapped within
to feel the hoarded treasure stir and wake
alert with lately-born Identity
is to pour strength belonging to the World
into the outward stucture of my life
and, as I grow, begin
to strike my seal into Reality.

—Tr. Owen Barfield

Henceforth be all my aim
to wrap secretive memory around
the New conceived within me,
waking and making strong
powers that to me belong
so that I grow up to become Myself.

—Tr. Owen Barfield

To feel the old-preserved quicken
Mysteriously to life within
With new-arisen sense of Selfhood —
This shall, arousing, pour World-forces
Into my Life's external undertakings
And growing, in the World imprint me.

—Tr. Mabel Cotterell

In hidden depths the new conceived
To fold within the clasp of Memory
Be my endeavour's further aim:
Gaining strength it shall awaken
My individual forces
And grown, bestow on me my Being.

—Tr. Mabel Cotterell

To feel what has been harbored long
Now quick’ning in my hidden life
As newly risen Self-existence;
It shall, awak’ning, pour world-force
Into my life’s external work;
And in becoming, print me in the world.

—Tr. John F. Gardner

In secret life, that memory
Encompass what has been received,
Shall be my striving’s aim henceforth;
By strengthening it shall awaken
Forces of my own within:
And in becoming, give my Self to me.

—Tr. John F. Gardner

To feel in secret mind
The treasures of the past
Given new life
With my resurrected self:
From cosmic powers this shall pour
Fresh forces into my daily task
And grave my mark upon the being of the world.

—Tr. Isabel Grieve

In secret then, the newly got
To close about with memory,
Shall be henceforth my effort's aim.
So, growing stronger, shall the powers
Of the Self awake within
And, growing, give myself to me.

—Tr. Isabel Grieve

To feel mysteriously within
That which has been preserved of old
Revive with newly risen Sense of Self:
Thus, quickening, It shall pour cosmic forces
Into my life's external work
And, in becoming, print myself upon existence.

—Tr. Brigitte Knaack

To wrap mysteriously in memory
That which has newly been conceived
Be now my striving' s further Sense:
Thus, strengthening, It shall awaken
Within myself the Selfhood's forces
And, in becoming, give my Self to me.

—Tr. Brigitte Knaack

Mysteriously what has been kept of old
To feel within me, quickening
With newly risen Selfhood,
This shall in outward labour of my life,
Awakening, pour out forces of the worlds
And in becoming print me in existence.

—Tr. Ernst Lehrs

Mysteriously with Memory to enclose
That which has newly been conceived,
This be my striving's further aim,
And growing strong, it shall awaken
Powers of Selfhood in my inward being,
And in becoming give myself to me.

—Tr. Ernst Lehrs

Mysteriously to feel within
The quickening of the treasur'd past
With Selfhood, newly risen;
This shall, arousing forces of the world,
Pour itself into my life's outer work
And growing root me in existence.

—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann

Mysteriously in memory to enfold
What was received of late;
This be my striving's further quest.
In growing stronger it shall waken
Forces of my own within
And, evolving, give me to myself.

—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann

Mysteriously, my being is resurrected.
And I feel within myself
all that I have preserved
from the past — alive again!
Awakening cosmic forces
shall pour into my life's
outer deeds!
And, evolving,
these forces shall stamp me
onto existence.

—Tr. Tom Mellett

Mysteriously, my memory is encompassed
by everything new I have received.
May all of it now become
the greater meaning of my striving —
Awakening in my inner being
my own ever-strengthening forces
which, ever-evolving,
give my own self
back to me.

—Tr. Tom Mellett

In secret inwardly to feel
How all that I've preserved of old
Is quickened by new-risen sense of self:
This shall, awakening, pour forth cosmic forces
Into the outer actions of my life
And growing, mould me into true existence.

—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch

In secret to encompass now
With memory what I've newly got
Shall be my striving's further aim:
Thus, ever strengthening, selfhood's forces
Shall be awakened from within
And growing, give me to myself.

—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch

Mystery wisdom honored of old
With newly acquired sense of self,
To feel it coming alive within:
It should pour awakening world forces
Into my life’s external work
And stamp me in the here and now.

—Tr. John Riedel MD

New impressions filled with mystery,
To hold them in the arms of memory
Shall be my striving’s wider aim:
This should wake in me
Strengthening inner forces
And increasingly give to me myself.

—Tr. John Riedel MD