Wellspring: The Tide of Life

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

The Tide of Life

Spirit Triumphant! Flame through the impotence of fettered, faltering souls! Burn up selfishness, kindle compassion, so that selflessness, the lifestream of humanity, may flow as the wellspring of spiritual rebirth! — Rudolf Steiner

"There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.

On such a full sea are we now afloat.

And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."

Rudolf Steiner: "The world must receive once more the principle of initiation as such among the principles of civilization. Only thereby will it come about that man, here on the Earth, will gather in his soul something with which he can go before Michael, so as to meet Michael's approving look, the look that says: “That is right, cosmically right.” Thereby the will is fastened and made firm, and the human being is incorporated in the spiritual progress of the Universe. Thereby man himself becomes a co-operator in that which is about to be instilled into the evolution of mankind on Earth by Michael — beginning now in this present epoch of Michael."

Rudolf Steiner: ". . . at a certain instant of higher cognition, we must pour out our own self as being into the outside world, and the act of cognition transforms mere knowledge into real life, into a real symbiosis with the outside world."