In Memory of the Deceased

My love is with the shells,
That now surround you
Cooling all warmth,
Warming all cold Sacrificially woven together!
Live lovingly,
gifted with light, upward!

To Paula Stryezek
after the death of Anna Wagner
December 31, 1905

To those whom my love flows
May your warmth cool you
May your coolness warm you
This is my faithful love
May it look in spirit
To your spiritual future
From my heart forever and ever.

Given to Rudolf Meyer
on March 3, 1911

With you, my soul
She seeks you, sensing
She is with you
And lives with you
Your task
So we are united
Karmically forever.

To Gertrud and Wilhelm v. Heydebrand
after the short life of one of their children
1911/12

In the evening:

Sent to you

my love as it was
when you were here with me.
May it ease your warmth,
may it ease your cold,
that you may find the way
from the realm of the soul to the realm of the spirit.

15 - 20 minutes

[In the morning:]

🕈 black. red

As from the black wood of the cross
red roses of light sprout,
just as from the darkness of the world
the clarity of God's sun,
so from the good hearts of men
the strengthening essence of love,
may they become my soul.

(Soul peace) In Memoriam

Given to Matilda Björklöf
June 1913

In the morning:

In the beginning was the Word ...

At noon:

My love follows you, follows you
follows you in your pain
follows you in bliss.

In the evening:

The meditation as indicated in The Secret Science, pp. 298-301. [Rosicrucian meditation]

To Anna Leuthel
on the death of her son
Early 1915

Through the gate of death I will follow
Faithfully to your soul in the spirit
Light-producing times and places
Loving you, lessening the coldness of the earth
Knowing you, ordering the light of the spirit
Thinking of you, I want to dwell
Dampening the scorching heat of the world.

To Gertrud Noss
on the death of her son Fritz Mitscher
February 1915

My soul follows you into spiritual realms,
Follows you with the love
That it was allowed to cherish on earth
When my eyes still saw you,
Soothe your warmth, soothe your cold,
And so we live united
Unseparated by spiritual gates.

On the death of Gertrud Noss
September 1915

In the beginning was the Word
And in the Word was I myself,
And the Word was with God.
And with the Word I was myself with God.
And a God was the Word.
And a God looked at me in the Word,
and the Word shall live in my soul.

Au commencement était le Verbe
Et dans le Verbe j’étais moi-même,
And the Word was with God.
And with the Word I was myself in God,
And one God was the Word.
And one God looked at me in the Word,
And the Word shall live in my soul.

To Hippolyte Corre on the death of his father
undated

Drawing:
yellow stars on a blue background

As from the blue depths of the spirit
The golden shining stars
So from the depths of my soul
The strong forces that hold them.

To Hermine Stein
on the death of her son Friedrich
killed in action on March 22, 1915

I will send into the realm of the spirit
The faithful love we found
To connect soul to soul
You shall find my thoughts loving
When from the bright lands of the spirit
You turn your soul in search
To see what you seek in me.

Notebook 1916

Giving light to you: Me
In expanses of light
Being effective
I am: You are

Thinking and feeling as one
We strive
Intertwining
Soul into soul.

Only into the realm of his thoughts.
Should seek what it can give him according to spiritual experience.

Notebook 1917

You were ours
And you will be ours
When now the light of the spirit
Shines upon your devoted
Soul's eye.

It will be yours
The noble power of your thoughts
Seeking in spiritual worlds
The love that we faithfully
Want to preserve for you.

Notebook 1917

My love be with the shells
That now surround you
Warming your cold
Cooling your heat
Sacrificially woven
Float, carried by love
Gifted with light, upward.

Notebook 1917

Our love follows you,
Soul that lives in spirit,
Who sees your earthly life;
Seeing itself as spirit
And what appears to you in the land of the soul
Thinking as your self
Take our love
So that we may feel ourselves in you
You find in our soul
What lives with you in faith.

On the death of Marie Hahn
September 1918

May heartfelt love penetrate to soul love
May the warmth of love shine forth as spiritual light
As close as I am to you
Thinking with you in spiritual thoughts
Feeling in you the love of the world
Spiritually willing through you
Being one experience weaving together.

To Rudolf Hahn
for his wife Marie
September 1918

Evening:

1.) Review
2.) Imagine the world of stars in the blue sky:

My self will be
In the spirit-filled space
It will have left
The physical body
It will weave
In the spirit of God
Filled with strength

Wait in peace
Thoughts of him with the given meditation

It shines brightly in the light of death
Of the earth's flame of spiritual knowledge;
The self becomes the eye and ear of the world.

In the morning:

Imagine the sun
The sun sounds in the heart:

Christ is with you
He fills your heart
Christ is in you
He fills your soul
Christ is around you
He fills your spirit
Feel Him.

Wait in peace

Mental image of his face

Mental image of his hands touching you

Come, soul, come to me
I am waiting
Come into my thoughts
They are waiting
Come into my feelings
They are waiting
My self is waiting.

To Theodora Cayley-Robinson
ca. 1919/20

To you
In love
On Christ's path
Seek my heart
Live
In my thoughts
As I live in your soul.

To a mother
after the death of her little child
June 1921

Warming your soul's sleep
My thoughts flow.
Experience them in your liberated self.
I want to be with you.
And bring you from your earthly existence
What you need for spiritual remembrance
From your life.

To Margarete Bockholt
after the death of her father
January 1924

From the experience after death With human spirits I want to think
The warmth of the soul, that they may feel
The risen one powerfully;

In the light of world thoughts
There weaves the soul that
Unites with me on earth

Notebook 1924

May the eyes of your soul see
The deeper power in my thoughts
It is my will.
May it meet your will
In the power of the Father
In the grace of Christ
In the light of the Spirit.

To William Scott Pyle
after the death of Edith Maryon
May 1924

The warm life of my heart
May it flow to your soul
To warm your cold
To soften your heat
In the spiritual worlds
May my thoughts live in yours
And your thoughts in mine.

Notebook 1924

And we perform a good, beautiful, and wonderful prayer as human beings when we think about the connection between life and death or about a deceased person in such a way that we say:

1. Angeloi, Archangeloi, Archai
   in the etheric web receive the net of destiny of —¹

2. They decay in Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes
   in the astral perception of the cosmos
   the just consequences of the earthly life of —

3. They rise again in thrones, cherubim, seraphim
   as beings whose deeds are the just manifestations
   of the earthly life of —

V. Dornach, July 4, 1924

In future earthly life
To introduce you vigorously,
You were handed over to us
Through the will of your parents.

In the pain at the gates of death
Only the soul-inspired words
The soul-inspiring words
That are destined for maturing life.

So instead of school, take guidance
For earthly deeds and life
The loving memory of the teacher
Over into that spiritual being

Where the soul is enveloped
By the bright light of eternity
And the spirit experiences
The goal of God's will.

On the death of the student Robert Kürzdörfer
May 1924

I look upon you in the spiritual world
In which you are
My love soothes your warmth
My love, ease your coldness
Let it reach you and help you
To find the way
Through the darkness of the spirit
Into the light of the spirit.

undatable

My soul's love strives toward you,
Let the meaning of my love flow toward you.
May they carry you, may they hold you
In heights of hope,
In spheres of love.

undatable

You who dwell in the realm of the spirit
Be my love's follower
Follow her into your coldness
Follow it into your heat
Carry faithfully with you
What your soul is to carry
I with you.

Notepad
undatable

In spiritual presence to you
Enrapture warm loving power
The soul's best spiritual feeling
Sympathetic, soothing your warmth
Supportive, strengthening your cold
And seeing you in me
And wanting me in you.

Note sheet
undated

My love is with you in the realm of the spirit.
Let your soul be found
By my searching soul.
Let your cold be soothed
And your warmth be soothed
By my thoughts of your being.
So let us be connected
I with you
And you with me.

undatable

In worlds where you dwell
The core of your soul
I send you love —
To cool your warmth,
To warm your coolness.
And if you find me feeling,
I will always be close to you.

undatierbar

So know also that your future spiritual vision
shall find faithfulness in our souls,
which we want to keep for you forever,
when we must seek you with loving thoughts
In the realm of the soul through that gate, Which may open the power of the spirit
From us to you.

Notepad
undatable

Whatever may happen to you
In the course of time and the world
My loving heart
With all its strength
Will be with you
Supporting
Helping.

Given to Lucie Bürgi
Undated

1. Your will was weak
2. Strengthen your will
3. I send you warmth for your cold
4. I send you light for your darkness
5. My love for you
6. My thoughts for you
7. Keep going

To Franz Gerner
for a friend lost to suicide
around 1914

Soul in the land of souls,
seek the grace of Christ
that brings you help,
help from the spirit world,
that also gives peace to those spirits
who want to despair in their
peace-less existence.

To a mother for her son,
who took his own life

You, my life
companion, help
the sprout, my
thoughts go
to you, to bring him right
I beg
the soul, husband —

To this mother, to turn to her
early deceased husband
undatable

In the light,
I feel
the life force. Death has awakened me
From sleep,
From spiritual slumber.

I will be,
And do from myself,
What radiant power
Shines within me.

Words of a young soldier who fell in battle
V. Berlin, March 2, 1915

I want to carry my feeling heart throughout the world
So that it may become warm
In the fire of holy forces at work;

I want to weave my own thoughts into the fabric of the world
My own thoughts, that they may become clear
In the light of eternal becoming and life;

I will dive into the depths of my soul
With devoted thoughts, that they may become strong
For the true goals of human activity;

In God's peace I strive thus
With life's struggles and worries,
Preparing my self for a higher self;

Striving for peace and the joy of work,
Anticipating the existence of worlds in my own being
I want to fulfill my duty as a human being;

I may then live in expectation
Towards my destiny,
Which grants me a place in the realm of the spirit.

Address for Lina Grosheintz
January 10, 1915

In human souls I want to guide
The spiritual feeling that willingly
Awakens the Easter word in hearts;

For Lina Grosheintz
Easter 1915
Notebook

As a soul, I am not on earth, but only in water, air, and fire;

In my fire I am in the planets and the sun.

In my sunness I am the fixed starry sky —

I am not on earth as a soul, but in light, word, and life;

In my life I am within the planetary and solar being, in the spirit of wisdom.

In my wisdom I am in the spirit of love.

Turn of the year 1917/18
Notebook

I was united with you,
Remain united in me.
We will speak together
In the language of eternal being.
We will be active
Where the results of deeds are effective,
We will weave in spirit
Where human thoughts are woven
In the word of eternal thoughts.

Address for Georga Wiese
January 11, 1924

No barrier can separate
What is united in spirit
The shining
And love-radiating
Eternal bond of souls
So I am in your memory
So you are in mine.

Draft

His soul rests in Christ's kingdom
The thoughts of his loved ones are with him.

Gravestone inscription for Johann Steiner
Died January 22, 1910

Here she sought spiritual existence
There she found spiritual existence
In the loving thoughts
Remain with her.

Gravestone inscription for Helene Reebstein
Died August 2, 1918

🕈
In life, his thoughts
were turned toward the spirit
May he find in death
the life of the spirit.
With him are
the thoughts of his loved ones.

Gravestone inscription for Friedrich Stein
killed in action on March 2, 1915

To S. St.

You are irreplaceable to us
in our earthly ranks;
we are eternally connected to you
in the eternity of the spirit.

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

Memorial leaflet for Sophie Stinde
December 1915

Her mind strove for the light,
Her heart worked out of love.

On the relief modeled by Rudolf Steiner in 1918
of Sophie Stinde
who died on November 17, 1915

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