Weave in Wisdom [Ex Deo Nascimur : Past Life] ——— Live in Glory [In Christo Morimur : Present Life] ——— Strive in Virtue [Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus : Future Life]

 

from the Seventh Recapitulation Lesson

Rudolf Steiner, September 20, 1924:

That is what the Guardian of the Threshold admonishes us about when he speaks to us for the first time after we have crossed over the yawning abyss of being:

See behind thinking's sensory light,
How in the gloomy spirit-cell
Willing arises from the body's depths;
Let be cast, through your strength of soul,
Dead thinking into the cosmic void;
And willing, it will arise
As cosmic thought's creation.

See in feeling's weaving in the soul,
How in sleep's dim-like dawning
Life streams in from cosmic distance;
Let in sleep through tranquil heart
Human feeling waft away hushed;
And cosmic life spiritualizes
As the human being's power.

See above the bodily effects of will,
How into sleeping fields of activity
Thinking sinks down from head forces;
Let through the soul's vision of light
human will transform itself;
And thinking, it appears
As the magical essence of will.

Source: https://southerncrossreview.org/131/steiner-class-repeat-3-7.html

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