Meditations for the Days of the Week
Further sayings for the days of the week can be found in “From the Contents of Esoteric Lessons,” GA 266/I-III
Life floods forth, released from the One
formless, free particles
floating in particles, particles animating particles.
- Sunday
It lets directing forces draw shapes
rushing through space out of chaos
giving birth to destiny, releasing destiny
into chaos. - Monday
It forms the designs, structures the
entities, allows longing to become,
urges beings to become beings, allows
selfhood to become, separates beings from beings.
- Tuesday
It lovingly causes beings to incline toward beings,
gives birth to kinship and unity, preserving selfhood,
pouring itself out in piety, creating selfhood
above itself. - Wednesday
Thursday
[It] allows creation
be fertilized with wisdom, as wisdom
creating birth and grave in
eternal becoming. — Friday
[It allows creation ?]
to descend to being, awakening memory,
bringing about a zest for action - harboring the divine,
so that the divine may arise. - Saturday
It is = Sunday = I love myself
It thinks = it Monday = I am me
It wants = it Tuesday = I think myself
It loves = it Wednesday = I want myself
It is me = Thursday
It thinks me = Friday
It wants me = Saturday
Notebook 1902/03
Saturday:
In the future, the good and bad lots will rest in the bosom of my soul.
Sunday:
I will note down the good things that happen to me every day;
they show me what
the gods have made of me.
Monday:
I will endure the bad things that happen to me from time to time;
they show me
what I can still make of myself.
Tuesday:
I thank my good fortune for how
I live now.
Wednesday:
I thank my strength in
bad fortune for the power that
can lead me upward in life.
Thursday:
Those who believe that good luck alone
promotes, and bad luck alone depresses,
see not the year, but only
the day.
Friday: 🕈
For Emma Getaz 1910
Saturday morning:
The beauty of the world flows into me.
Sunday morning:
I will.
Notebook 1910
Saturday:
I find warmth in the universe as
joy in my work and creativity in my soul
S: Light Thinking
M: Harmony Mood (contentment) Tue: Life Self-esteem
Wed: Air Willpower
Thu: Water Feeling
Fri: Earth Knowledge
Notebook 1910
Sunday:
Light Symbol of wisdom
Mon:
Warmth Symbol of love
Tuesday:
Breath Symbol of the spirit entering me.
Wednesday:
My blood moves within me
The elements move in the universe.
Thursday:
Like clouds bless the earth
So does the grace of God bless me.
Friday:
Like the pure morning sun
So appears my soul when it awakens.
Saturday: 🕈
For Emilie Anderson
June 7, 1913
Saturday:
I say to myself:
Have faith, my soul, in you
So I say what is true in spirit
Even if the outside world sometimes shows otherwise.
Sunday:
Every person's higher self
Watches over their karma
Monday:
Every person's higher self
Speaks invisibly with the person's angel
Tuesday:
In these three sayings
I will be able to find the direction of my thoughts.
Wednesday:
The power of God rests within me
I will surely find it.
Thursday:
Man lives from darkness into light.
Friday:
There is harmony in the spiritual realm.
based on a 1914 note
Day 1:
Ruling in peace, O invisible creator of the world,
enlighten my will through my thoughts.
Day 2:
You who live in love, O tangible sustainer of the world,
accept my will as a sacrifice.
Day 3:
You who fill the whole world, O You who reveal Yourself everywhere
revealer of the world, fill me too.
Notepad, undated
Saturday: I guide my soul
Sunday: Divine light around my soul
Monday: Peace of mind is the power of existence
Tuesday: Energetic thinking gives confidence in eternal existence
Wednesday: Be my soul, always true to yourself
Thursday: Recognize yourself through your feelings and actions.
Friday: Always be courageous in gathering life force.
after 1914 notebook
Sunday:
Spirit of the world, enter my heart,
my soul, my self.
Monday:
I look to you, spirit of the world,
I surrender myself to you with my heart,
my soul, my self.
Tuesday:
I shall feel you, spirit of the world,
feel you from the depths of my being,
with my heart, my soul,
my self.
Wednesday:
By your grace I wind my way
from step to step, striving for heights
my heart, my soul, my self.
Thursday:
🕈
In YOUR light I shall be healed,
become strong and fearless in ---1
Friday:
I am in you, spirit of the world,
may your gifts be in me.
Saturday:
I AM
For Lotus Peralte
undatable
Saturday:
The light that illuminates the room
shall be a symbol of wisdom.
Sunday:
The warmth that heats an object
shall be a symbol of love.
Monday:
A being that breathes proves
that it can only be part of the world of air.
Tuesday:
A being that recognizes proves
that it can only be part of the world of spirit.
Wednesday:
The exhalation of a being shows
that the inner becomes the outer in existence.
Thursday:
Judging by a person is in the spiritual realm,
what exhalation is in the physical realm.
Friday:
When I say: I am, then within me affirms itself
the spirit through which I am.
For Rudolf Hahn
undatable
Saturday:
I dedicate my heart to the powerful forces of the cosmos:
feel warmth in your heart.
Aux fortes puissances du cosmos je consacre mon coeur
(sentir chaleur dans le coeur)
Sunday:
I dedicate my head to the radiant forces of the cosmos: feel light in my head.
Aux rayonantes puissances du cosmos je consacre ma tête
(sentir lumière dans la tête)
Monday:
I devote myself entirely to the warming powers of the cosmos:
feel strength in all my limbs.
Aux réchauffantes puissances du cosmos je me consacre toute entière
(sentir force dans tous les members)
For Emma Getaz
undatable
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See note on page 360 for p. 55. ↩