Calendar of the Soul
GA 40
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Current Verse: Week 41
Der Seele Schaffensmacht,
Sie strebet aus dem Herzensgrunde,
Im Menschenleben Götterkräfte
Zu rechtem Wirken zu entflammen,
Sich selber zu gestalten
In Menschenliebe und im Menschenwerke.
—Rudolf Steiner
Corresponding Verse: Week 12
Der Welten Schönheitsglanz,
Er zwinget mich aus Seelentiefen
Des Eigenlebens Götterkräfte
Zum Weltenfluge zu entbinden;
Mich selber zu verlassen,
Vertrauend nur mich suchend
In Weltenlicht und Weltenwärme.
—Rudolf Steiner
The soul's creative power
Out of the core of heart is striving
To kindle in the human life
For righteous acts, the godly forces,
So it may mold itself
In human love and also human deeds.
—Tr. Daisy Aldan
The beauteous lustre of the world
Compels me from the depth of soul
That I release to cosmic flight
The godly force of my own life:
To leave myself below,
And trusting, seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
—Tr. Daisy Aldan
The soul's creative power
sent from the bottom of the heart aspires
the life of man with strength of gods to fire
for deeds — for selves to grow into a mold
formed out of love for and things done for men.
—Tr. Owen Barfield
The flush of beauty round the world
forces my soul to search her depths
for godlike powers, to set them free
and send them winging out into the world,
to leave myself behind me
in trust that I shall find me
there in the Light, there in the Warmth again.
—Tr. Owen Barfield
The Soul's creative might
Is striving from the heart's foundation
To kindle to their rightful working
The powers divine in human nature,
And it itself to fashion
In human loving and in human action.
—Tr. Mabel Cotterell
The World's bright loveliness,
Constrains me from the inmost soul-depths
To free my being's Godlike forces
That they may soar into the cosmos;
My own Self to relinquish,
And trustingly to seek it
In Cosmic Light and Cosmic Warmness.
—Tr. Mabel Cotterell
The soul’s creative strength
From heart’s foundation strives
With right effect to kindle
New pow’rs divine in human life:
That so they may take shape
In human love and human deeds.
—Tr. John F. Gardner
The radiant beauty of the world
Impels me now from depths of soul
To free my own life-powers divine
For World-aspiring flight;
To leave my self behind
And simply trusting, seek my Self
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
—Tr. John F. Gardner
From out the heart's foundations
The soul's creative might
Strives to enkindle to their proper work
Within man's life Qod's Powers:
And strives to give itself a form
Through human love and human labour.
—Tr. Isabel Grieve
The shining beauty of the world
Compels me to set free from deeps of soul
My own life's godly powers
For flight into the world:
Abandoning myself
With faith alone to seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
—Tr. Isabel Grieve
The soul's creative might,
It strives from deepest grounds of heart
To set aflame for rightful doing
Forces divine in human life,
Shaping itself thereby
In human love and human work.
—Tr. Brigitte Knaack
The world's fair shining glory
Compels me to release
From depths of soul to cosmic flight
My own life's God-inspired forces,
To leave myself behind
And trustingly to seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
—Tr. Brigitte Knaack
The soul's creative might
Now strives out of the heart's deep ground
To kindle to right action
Powers of Qods in life of Man,
To mould herself
In human Love and human Work.
—Tr. Ernst Lehrs
The World's fair shining glory
Constrains me from the depths of soul
To free my inner life's God-given pow'rs,
Releasing them for cosmic flight,
Forsaking Self,
And trustfully to seek myself
In light of Worlds and warmth of Worlds.
—Tr. Ernst Lehrs
The soul's creative power strives
From the heart's own ground
God-given forces into flame
For good working in the life of man,
Its very self to fashion
In human love and human works.
—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann
The world's fair shining glory
Compels me from the depths of soul
To let my being's God-given powers
Soar out into the Universe —
Abandoning my Self,
And trusting only, seek myself
In light of worlds and warmth of worlds.
—Tr. Liselotte & William Mann
My soul's creative power! —
Yearning from the bottom of my heart —
Ignites in human life
Divine forces,
Shapes itself in human love and deed
For the purpose of right action.
—Tr. Tom Mellett
The splendor of Nature's beauty
Lures me out of my soul depths
To liberate for cosmic flight
The divine forces
Of my own existence. —
To abandon myself,
Yet trusting
And seeking myself alone
In cosmic light,
And cosmic warmth.
—Tr. Tom Mellett
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.
—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch
The radiant beauty of the world
Compels my inmost soul to free
God-given powers of my nature
That they may soar into the cosmos,
To take wing from myself
And trustingly to seek myself
In cosmic light and cosmic warmth.
—Tr. Ruth & Hans Pusch
The soul’s creative power,
From its base within the heart,
Strives to inflame in human lives
Godlike forces, rightful acts,
To establish itself
In human love and in human work.
—Tr. John Riedel MD
The world’s radiant beauty
Compels me out of depths of soul
Releasing me from a life my own
To the god-like power of world-flight;
To abandon myself,
Trusting only in seeking myself
In worldly light and worldly warmth.
—Tr. John Riedel MD