# Mantric sayings for Anthroposophical Work

*For buildings  
For working groups and branches of society  
For teachers, doctors, and priests*

*Signature of the Rosicrucian School*

Ex Deo nascimur  
In Christo morimur  
Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus

Munich, May 1907

From God I am born  
In Christ I die  
Through the Holy Spirit I rise again

Malsch, April 1909

From God the human soul arose  
It can dive into the essence of being when dying  
It will one day release the spirit from death

Munich, August 1911

From the divine comes humanity  
In Christ, death becomes life  
In the world of the spirit, the soul awakens

Dornach, January 1924

*The four sayings of the wisdom of the pillars*

J

In pure thought you find  
The self that can sustain itself.

Transform thought into image  
And you experience creative wisdom.

B ![268-12](images/268-12.webp) ![268-13](images/268-13.webp)

Condense feeling into light And you reveal the formative power.

If you objectify the will into being, you create in the world.

Munich Congress  
May 1907

*Laying of the foundation stone for the Malsch model building*

Your blessing  
You great  
Brothers  
You who live in our thoughts,  
you who power our feelings,  
you who pulse through our will,  
you who shape the lower from above,  
you who spiritually raise the lower to the higher,  
our souls implore you  
for the Theosophical Lodge in Malsch.  
Envelop the stone with your lives,  
which we lower into the earth here, so that  
what is thought, felt, and desired above it  
may grow from the seed of your lives.

Given and entrusted to the earth  
for the Malsch Lodge and its faithful guardians  
and the Stockmeyer family in the presence  
of representatives of the theosophical lodges:  
Berlin, Düsseldorf, Munich, Stuttgart,  
Nuremberg, Wiesbaden, Lugano, Karlsruhe,  
Heidelberg, Bielefeld.

Dr. Rudolf Steiner

approx. 40 additional signatures

Malsch foundation stone document  
April 5, 1909.

May the light of the spirits of the East shine upon this building  
The light of the spirits of the East;  
May the spirits of the West reflect it back;  
May the spirits of the North strengthen it  
And the spirits of the South warm it,  
So that the spirits of the East, West,  
North and South may flow through the building.

From the speech given at the laying of the foundation stone in Malsch  
April 5, 1909

*Inauguration of the Stuttgart Branch House*

Spirit of the universe, you who proclaim yourself to our true self-knowledge, you have graciously kept the word you gave us when you saw the work your servants had been doing for years; and today, at this hour, it is becoming apparent. Admittedly, the vastest realms of the spirit cannot comprehend you, great spirit of the universe, who with your thoughts permeate all your works, who wants to dwell in the words that may sound from our lips; how much less can these temple walls, which we have built for you, comprehend you. But behold, Spirit of the universe, who reveals yourself in our true self-knowledge, in the will to understand, in the longing for knowledge of your servants! Behold, Spirit of the universe, who permeates every self, look down upon us, and let your eyes be open upon this building where you have decided to dwell! Hear our feelings, which urge us to show ourselves worthy through our work of allowing your spirit to flow into the rooms we have dedicated to you!

V. October 15, 1911

Whoever enters, bring love to this home,  
Whoever stays within, seek knowledge in this place,  
Whoever leaves, take peace with you from this house.

V. October 15, 1911

*The words on the columns*

THE IT  
TO IT  
IN IT  
I  
FROM ME  
OUT OF ME  
ME INTO IT

Inscriptions on the seven columns on a sketch  
for the large domed room  
of the Johannes Building project  
Munich 1911/12

*Transcription of the adjacent template for the foundation stone document for the Dornach building*

In the name of

Seraphim  
Cherubim  
Thrones

Wisdom  
Movers  
Formers

Personalities  
Archangeloi  
Angeloi

Anthropos

Ex Deo Nascimur  
In --- Morimur  
Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus

As the cornerstone  
of our spirit seeking will,  
in the world soul feeling being,  
in the world ego sensing humanity  
we place in the realm of condensed elements  
You, symbol of the power we strive for through  
3 5 7 12

Laid by the Johannesbau Association for Anthroposophical Work on the 20th day of September 1880, after the Mystery of Golgotha, that is, in 1913 after the birth of Christ, when Mercury stood as the evening star in Libra.

September 20, 1913 250

Amen

Through the worlds working  
Wisdom  
Stimuli  
Forms  
You had to send the evils  
Because of man's fall into the tempter's net  
Because he took the being and gave himself  
So he needs his daily bread  
Because a will other than that of heaven reigns on earth  
And man separated himself from your kingdom  
And forgot the name  
Of his fathers in heaven.

Draft  
Notepad

*The macrocosmic Lord's Prayer*

Amen

Evil reigns  
Witnesses of dissolving egoism  
Self-imposed guilt for the sins of others  
Experienced in our daily bread  
In which the will of heaven does not reign  
In which man separated himself from your kingdom  
And forgot your name  
You fathers in heaven.

From the speech given at the laying of the foundation stone  
of the Dornach building  
September 20, 1913

*Words on the Goetheanum window motifs*

I look It reveals itself | It has revealed itself  
West: red

The world brings about the will  
The will is born | The will is born  
North: green

The love of the world works  
And human love arises | And human love seizes him  
South: green

The world gives him sight  
And he sees | And he makes himself see  
North: blue

The outside world in decision  
Deciding | He has willed  
South: blue

It has been  
It had become | It was  
North: purple

It arises  
It will be | It is  
South: purple

The world blows Piety  
Thus he becomes pious | Piety has an effect  
North: pink

The world builds  
I look at the building | And the building becomes human  
South: pink

Dornach, 1919/1920

*Two sketches for the central motifs of the green Goetheanum windows*

And the spirit of heaviness  
gathered the contradiction  
And it became  
In the will of man  
Resistance.

North But when wise leaders of humanity  
Were chosen from among the souls devoted to the spirit  
By higher powers of existence.  
They cultivated in places of knowledge  
The spiritual forces, the rays of knowledge  
Which they sent into souls that were only dimly aware  
Of their vision.  
Only later were spiritual researchers able to gather  
Did the spiritual researchers draw their disciples,  
Who through their strong-willed lives of trial  
Proved themselves ripe to strive purposefully in the light of consciousness  
Towards spiritual knowledge.  
And when the disciples later became the first leaders  
And were able to cultivate the noble gift with dignity,  
The unconscious leadership disappeared,  
So that free souls could strive knowledgeably.  
And free souls then chose people  
Who were allowed to follow them in cultivating  
The treasure of the spirit; and so it continued  
From one generation to the next.  
Until now, all places of knowledge  
That are truly such have sprung forth justly  
From the highestthat stands in the spiritual spheres.  
In earnest search we strive here  
Toward the true spiritual heritage of mankind.  
We will never speak of knowledge  
That does not bear the seal of the spirit;  
Only from the light of the spiritual worlds,  
Which people can see when they look up,  
Those who want to trust themselves to it,  
In order to fathom the depths of their souls.  
The seriousness of the turning point in time  
is what the seriousness of the turning point in time teaches us  
and its necessity; the signs are truly  
full of meaning, which are now clearly revealed to the spiritual eyes  
in the world plan. —

And the light  
of the spirits  
Became the light  
of man.

South

1913/14

*For the opening ceremony of the first event in the still unfinished Goetheanum building*

In the name of that spirit which proclaims itself to the souls  
in our place of striving,  
I appear at this moment  
Before people who from now on want to hear  
The word that sounds solemnly here to the souls.  
Not in earlier times could those powers  
That guide the goals of our earthly existence  
Reveal themselves in a fully conscious manner.  
For just as in the body of a child  
The powers that are destined to be the bearers of knowledge  
Must gradually mature and grow stronger,  
So too must humanity as a whole unfold  
In its earthly journey.  
At first, the impulses of the soul lived in dullness,  
Which were later to prove worthy  
Of beholding the light of the spirit from higher worlds.

For the opening ceremony  
of the first Anthroposophical University Course  
Human soul!  
  
You live in the heartbeat and breath  
Which leads you through the rhythm of time  
Into your own soul-being:  
Practice spiritual reflection  
In soul equilibrium  
Where the surging  
World-becoming deeds

Dornach, September 26, 1920

*Concluding words of the address at the opening ceremony*

To turn toward the light  
In dark times of need, —  
To the spiritual dawn  
Send the glances of our souls, —  
Let human will be here  
And remain so forever.

V. Dornach, September 26, 1920

Thinking, true communion of human beings

They approach me in earthly activity  
Given to me in the image of matter  
The heavenly deeds of the stars  
Which I wisely transform in feeling.

I experience myself with the world

It penetrates me in the activity of water  
In the power of matter, grasping me  
The heavenly beings forming the stars  
Which I lovingly create in my will.

I am with the world

Draft

*Spiritual Communion*

It approaches me in the workings of the earth  
Given to me in the image of matter  
The heavenly beings of the stars  
I see them lovingly transforming themselves in my will.

I experience myself as a soul

They penetrate me in the life of water  
In the power of matter forming me  
The heavenly deeds of the stars  
I see them changing wisely in feeling.

I experience myself as spirit.

For the lecture held in the Goetheanum building immediately before the  
outbreak of the fire  
Dornach, December 31, 1922

Feel into the breath—feel quietly

The power of the waves of the world surges within me  
On the waves lives the will of the gods  
The will of the gods, you fill me  
I enliven you as human will  
In human will, my being becomes  
A life that creates its own power  
I work out of my ego into the world.

Feel into the blood circulation – listen quietly

Within me, the power of human will calms down  
In the calmness, human thinking lives  
Human thinking, you enlighten me;  
I grasp you as God's thought  
In God's thought is my archetypal being  
And archetypal being becomes light-creating within me  
I think from God to myself.

December 1922  
Notebook

*After the fire at the Goetheanum*

Thoughts were woven into thoughts  
The soul joyfully consumed in creation  
Feelings breathed into forms  
And thus the spirit of art was bound together

Do you want to explore the pain  
In which fate has plunged us  
Feeling has gone up in flames  
Creative happiness has come to an end

The eye looks upon ruins

Notebook 1923

It wanted to speak in the substance of thought  
The Goetheanum of the eternal  
In forms visible to the eye  
The flames could consume the substance  
Anthroposophy shall  
From the spiritual build its structure  
And speak to the soul  
The flames of the spirit  
They will harden it.

April 1923  
Notebook

Look at the Logos  
In the scorching fire;  
Find the solution  
In Dianen's house.

V. Dornach, December 2, 1923

*The ideal-spiritual foundation of the General Anthroposophical Society by Rudolf Steiner on December 25, 1923, at 10 a.m.*

Human soul!  
You live in the limbs  
That carry you through the world of space  
In the sea of spirit:  
Practice spiritual remembrance  
In the depths of your soul  
Where in the reigning  
Being of the Creator of worlds  
The self  
In God's - I  
Exists  
And you will truly live  
In the human-world-being.

For the order, see note on p. 367.

The individual self  
Unite with the world self  
And you will truly feel  
In the workings of the human soul.

Human soul!  
You live in the resting head  
Which, for reasons of eternity,  
Opens up the thoughts of the world to you:  
Practice spiritual vision  
In the tranquility of thought  
Where the eternal goals of the gods  
The light of the essence of worlds  
To their own selves  
For free will  
And you will think truly  
In the foundations of the human spirit.

At the turn of the ages  
The light of the world spirit entered  
Into the earthly stream of being;  
Eight darkness had passed  
Daylight  
Shone in human souls  
Light that warms  
The poor shepherds' hearts  
Light that illuminates  
The wise kings' heads —

Divine light  
Christ Sun  
Warm our hearts  
Enlighten our heads

That good may come  
From what we  
Found in our hearts  
From our heads  
May lead us purposefully.

(Repeat of: Human soul! You live in the limbs ...

For the Father Spirit of the heights reigns  
In the depths of the world, creating being  
Seraphim, cherubim, thrones  
Let it resound from the heights  
What finds its echo in the depths:  
That speaks:  
Ex Deo nascimur.  
The elemental spirits hear it  
in the east, west, north, south  
May human beings hear it.

(Repeat of: Human soul! You live in the beating of the heart and lungs ...

For the will of Christ reigns in the surroundings  
In the rhythms of the worlds, blessing souls  
Kyriotetes Dynamis Exusiai  
Let the east fire up  
What is being formed through the west:  
This speaks:  
In Christ we die.

(Repeat of: Human soul! You live in your resting head ...

For the thoughts of the Spirit rule the world  
In the world's being, imploring light  
Archai Archangeloi Angeloi  
Let them implore from the depths  
What is heard in the heights:  
This speaks:  
Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus.  
This they hear ...

V. Dornach, December 25, 1923

*Second version*

*for printing in “What is happening in the Anthroposophical Society.*

News for its members,” No. 1, January 13, 1924

Human soul!  
You live in the limbs,  
Which carry you through the world of space  
Into the sea of spirit:  
Practice spiritual remembrance  
In the depths of your soul  
Where in the ruling  
Being of the world creator  
Your own I  
Exists in the I of God  
Exists;  
And you will truly live  
In the human-world-being.

For the Father-Spirit of the heights reigns  
In the depths of the worlds, creating being:  
You spirits of power  
Let your voices ring out from the heights,  
What echoes in the depths;  
This speaks:  
From the divine comes humanity.  
The spirits hear this in the east, west, north, and south:  
May humans hear it too.

Human soul!  
You live in the beating of your heart and lungs,  
Which guides you through the rhythm of time  
Into the feeling of your own soul:  
Practice spiritual reflection  
In the balance of your soul,  
Where the surging deeds of world becoming  
Unite the individual self  
With the world self  
And you will truly feel  
In the workings of the human soul.

For the will of Christ reigns in the surroundings  
In the rhythms of the worlds, blessing souls:  
Let your spirits of light  
Be fired from the east,  
What is forming through the west;  
This speaks:  
In Christ, death becomes life.  
The spirits in the east, west, north, and south hear this:  
May human beings hear it.

Human soul!
You live in your resting head,

Which, from the depths of eternity,

Opens up the thoughts of the world to you:

Practice spiritual vision

In the tranquility of thought,

Where the eternal goals of the gods

Bestow upon the light of the essence of the worlds

And you will think truly

In the foundations of the human spirit.

For the thoughts of the spirit rule the world  
In the world's being, imploring light.

Let them beg from the depths

What is heard in the heights:

In the world thoughts of the spirit, the soul awakens.

The spirits hear this in the east, west, north, and south:

At the turn of the ages  
The light of the world spirit entered  
The earthly stream of beings;  
The darkness of night  
Had come to an end;  
Daylight  
Shone in human souls;  
Light,  
Warms  
The poor shepherds' hearts;  
Light,  
That illuminates  
The wise kings' heads.

Divine light,  
Christ-sun  
Warm  
Our hearts;  
Illuminate  
Our heads;

That good may come of  
What we  
Found in our hearts,  
What we  
From our heads  
Want to lead purposefully.

January 1924

Peace reign in this house;  
Let everyone remember this,  
Whoever enters and leaves,  
Be strong and hearty, as much as you can.

Administration building in Dornach  
Spring 1920

*Laying of the foundation stone of the “Vreede” house*

In this house lives the soul  
May it be permeated by the spirit  
That seeks in the depths  
The firm will  
That it may become  
The pious mind  
In all the rooms of the building  
And that from above  
One can find  
The blessing of the spirit  
And God's grace  
In all who live within.

*The foundation stone was laid on October 27, 1921. Those who were involved in the construction of the building dedicated their thoughts to it in the above spirit.*

Arlesheim, October 27, 1921

Foundation stone inscription for the new building of the Stuttgart Waldorf School

May the power of the spirit in love prevail  
May the light of the spirit in goodness work  
From the security of the heart  
From the steadfastness of the soul  
To the young human being  
For the working power of the body  
For the intimacy of the soul  
For the brightness of the spirit  
May it bring forth.

This place is dedicated to this:  
May the spirit of youth find in it  
Those gifted with strength, those devoted to light  
caretakers of humanity.

In their hearts they remember the spirit  
that is to reign here, those who  
sink the stone as a symbol  
here, so that  
it may strengthen the foundation  
upon which they are to live, reign, and work:

Liberating wisdom  
Strengthening spiritual power  
Revealing spiritual life.

They wish to profess this:  
In the name of Christ  
With pure intentions  
With good will. —

42 signatures

December 16, 1921

*For the school in Hamburg-Wandsbeck*

From the seriousness of the times  
must be born  
the courage to act.

Give to teaching  
what the spirit gives you,  
and you will free humanity  
from the nightmare  
that weighs upon it through  
materialism.

*For the Christian Rosenkreutz branch in Nice*

Great sublime spirit,  
You who fill the worlds,  
You who dive into the depths of souls  
Fill our workplace  
Fill our searching souls  
Strengthen our will  
Warm our feelings  
Purify our thinking  
Now and forever.

1911

*For the inauguration of the Novalis Branch in Rome*

Spiriti eccelsi, che eravate perfetti

Prima che scorresse la sorgente del nostro principio,  
Your creative wisdom formed the universe,  
And from the world of Your wisdom arose:

The power of our thinking  
The life of our feelings  
The end of our will.

May your strength, your life, your end

penetrate the organs of our souls:

So that they may contemplate your creative wisdom,

So that they may live creative feeling,

So that they may create in the Divine Will.

Ex Deo nascimur  
In Christo morimur  
Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus

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High spirits, you who were made perfect  
Before the source of our beginning flowed,  
Your creative wisdom formed the world,  
And from your world of wisdom arose

The power of our thoughts,  
The life of our feelings,  
The goal of our will.

Your power, your life, your goal  
Pour into the limbs of our souls,  
That they may see your creative wisdom,  
That they may live creative feeling,  
That they may create in divine will.

April 1910

*For the meetings of the Novalis branch in Rome*

Nel segno della croce  
Circondata da rose  
Vediamo sentendolo  
Il risveglio dello Spirito del Mondo  
dalle profondità dell’ anima.  
Si staccano dalle profondità dell’ anima  
The hidden forces of mystery.  
Forces that acted in the beginning,  
Forces that must act in the end,  
Forces in which  
we think,  
in which  
we live loving,  
in which  
we breathe devotion.

In the sign of the cross  
surrounded by roses  
we see and feel  
the awakening of the world spirit  
from the depths of the soul.  
From the depths of the soul  
hidden forces of mystery are released.  
Forces that were at work in the beginning,  
forces that will be at work in the end,  
forces in which  
we think,  
in which  
we live lovingly,  
in which  
we breathe devotion.

At the beginning and end, each member recites this formula aloud, while the others meditate on its meaning. When enough gatherings have taken place for each member to have had a turn, the member who began starts again.

ca. 1911

*For the Emerson branch in London*

From the bright heights of the spirit  
Shine forth God's bright light  
In human souls  
Who seek  
The grace of the spirit  
The power of the spirit  
The being of the spirit.

May it live  
In the hearts  
In the inner soul  
Of ours  
Who  
In His name  
Feel gathered here.

*For the opening of the members' meetings*

May 1913

*For the founding of the St. Michel group in Paris*

Great comprehensive spirit  
Lift up my thoughts  
To Your wisdom  
Lift up my feelings  
To Your revelation  
Lift up my will  
To Your creation  
So may my soul  
Sense you threefold  
And One in its depths  
Yourself  
Now  
and forever.

May 1913 Into the realm of eternity.

*On the inauguration of the Vidar branch in Bochum*

You who guide spiritual life and give people what they need according to the times,  
You work with us when our friends here in this city serve spiritual life with devotion.

We would like to send this as a prayer to the spiritual leaders, the higher hierarchies, at this moment, which is solemn in two respects. ...

May this be our Christmas prayer today: that this branch may also become a living witness to what flows as a force from higher worlds into human evolution and can give human souls more and more awareness of the truth of the words:

The things in the vastness of space speak to the senses,  
They change in the stream of time;  
The human soul penetrates with understanding,  
Unlimited by the vastness of space  
And unreachable by the stream of time,  
Into the realm of eternity.

V. December 21, 1913

*For the founding of the Mannheim II branch*

To feel within the soul  
What eternally binds man as the core of his being  
To the world spirit  
And thus gives true meaning to life and striving  
This permeates the science of the spirit.

And may this also reign over us, above us,
And may this also reign around us, above us,

Since we have united ourselves in a soul work;

May the great spiritual guides of life

Bestow their grace and love upon us with blessings.

In memory of the  
Community for Spiritual Science  
Community for Spiritual Science  
December 21, 1915 Rudolf Steiner

December 1915

*Dedication for a room in Tannbach Castle*

You yourself, knowing, feeling, willing human being  
You are the mystery of the world  
What it conceals  
In you it becomes manifest, it becomes  
In your spirit light  
In your soul warmth,  
And in your breath power  
It binds your physical being  
To soul worlds  
To spiritual realms.  
It leads you into matter  
So that you find yourself human  
It leads you into the spirit  
So that you do not lose yourself spiritually.

To Ludwig and Bertha von Polzer-Hoditz,  
June 10, 1918

*For the working group of Alice Kinkel in Stuttgart*

The sphere of the spirit is the home of the soul;  
And man reaches it  
If he follows the path of true thinking,  
Chooses the power of love in his heart  
As his strong guide,  
And opens the inner meaning of his soul  
To the writing that is revealed everywhere  
In the world,  
Which he can always find  
As a proclamation of the spirit  
In everything that lives and works,  
And in all things, too,  
That spread lifelessly in space,  
As in everything that happens  
In the stream of time.

Rudolf Steiner  
1923

*On the founding of the Threefold Group in New York*

Let our feelings penetrate  
The center of our hearts  
And seek to unite in love  
With people of the same goal  
With the spirits who graciously  
Look down upon our earnest, heartfelt striving  
From regions of light, strengthening us  
And illuminating our love.

November 1923

#### To our friends in Berlin

Man sees  
With the eye created by the world;  
He is bound by what he sees,  
To the joy of the world and the pain of the world;  
It binds him to everything,  
To everything that becomes, but no less,  
To everything that falls  
Into the dark abyss.

Man sees  
With the eye given by the spirit;  
He is bound by what he sees,  
To the hopes of the spirit and the sustaining power of the spirit;  
It binds him to everything,  
That has its roots in eternity  
And bears fruit in eternity.

But man can only see  
Only when he feels his inner eye  
As a member of the spirit of God,  
Which on the stage of the soul  
In the temple of the human body  
Works the deeds of the gods.

It is humanity  
In forgetfulness of the inner God,  
But we want to take it  
Into the bright light of consciousness,  
And then carry over the rubble and ashes  
The flame of the gods in the hearts of men.

So may lightning strike our houses of the senses

We will build houses for our souls

Of iron-strong webs of light.

And the downfall of the outer world

Shall become the dawn

Of the innermost soul.

Suffering presses in  
From the forces of matter;  
Hope shines,  
Even when darkness surrounds us;  
And one day it will  
Penetrate our memory,  
When, after the darkness,  
Are allowed to live again in the light.

We do not want this light

To be missing from our future happiness,

Because we have not planted it in our souls

November 1923

*Dedication for the Berlin Youth Branch Room*

Room walls protectively separate us  
From the disturbing noise of the world;  
The soul finds itself in silence  
With the soul in the spiritual realm;  
But world forces bind effectively,  
What the strongest wall keeps apart;  
So too must love carry powerfully  
Human forces in the union of souls.

Easter 1924 My etheric body works in the fluid of my body.

Room walls protectively separate us  
From the disturbing noise of the world  
The soul finds itself in silence  
To the soul in the limited realm of the spirit  
But world forces weave into the universe  
What the strongest wall keeps apart  
So too must love powerfully carry  
Human forces in the union of souls.

Draft

*For the teachers of the Waldorf School*

In the light of the essence of meaning,  
There lives the will of the spirit,  
Giving itself as the light of wisdom  
And concealing its inner power;

In the I of one's own being,  
There shines the human will,  
As the revelation of thought,  
Supported by its own power;

And its own power to the light  
Of world wisdom powerfully  
United with the self:

Shape me, who seek  
Towards the divine and sublime  
Seeking the forces of enlightenment.

September 1919

For the teachers of the Waldorf School Let it circle through your own council,  
Since that council, which would so gladly come,  
Does not have free wings.

Consciousness that from above  
And below the human being  
Binder Worlds' light  
To the earth's darkness.

Spiritual vision,  
Turn your gaze inward;  
Heartfelt feeling  
Touch the tender soul;  
In intuitive spiritual vision,  
In heartfelt soul feeling,  
Consciousness weaves itself.

Spiritual gaze  
Heartfelt touch  
Behold, feel  
In the human interior  
Weaving worlds' light  
In the reigning earth's darkness:  
My own  
human image-forming power  
creative  
power-generating  
will-carrying  
self.

October 17, 1923

The power of thought unites us,  
since we must be separated in space. —  
What we have already accomplished together  
Now flows through the teaching staff.

From the letter to the teachers  
Goetheanum, March 15, 1925 Thinking nourishes my etheric body.

*For anthroposophical doctors*

Preparation: How do I find the good?

1. Can I think the good?

I cannot think the good.

So I do not find the good in the fluid of the body.

2. Can I feel the good?

I can feel the good, but it is not there through me  
if I only feel it.

Feeling nourishes my astral body.

My astral body works in the airy part of my body.

So in the airy part of the body I do not find the good that exists through me.

3. Can I will the good?

I can will the good.

Willing sustains my ego.

My ego works in the warmth ether of my body.

Therefore, in warmth I can physically realize the good.

I feel my humanity in my warmth.

1. I feel light in my warmth.

(Pay attention that this sensation of light occurs in the area where the physical heart is located.)

2. I feel the substance of the world sounding in my warmth.

(Make sure that the peculiar sensation of sound travels from the lower abdomen to the head, but spreads throughout the entire body.)


3. I feel the life of the world stirring in my head in my warmth.

(Make sure that the peculiar sensation of life spreads from the head to the whole body.)

To Helene v. Grunelius for the doctors

What I am now writing on the board is not for you to know, but to stimulate this revitalization of your medical sense again and again. It is something like this:

You healing spirits  
You connect yourselves  
To the blessing of sulfur  
Of the scent of ether;

You enliven yourselves  
In the ascent of Mercury  
The dewdrop  
Of the growing  
And becoming.

You find support  
In the salts of the earth  
That nourishes the roots  
In the soil. —

This is, in a sense, what the soul acquires by looking at its surroundings, awakening the inner meaning of what surrounds it. Man can then respond:

I want to connect my soul's knowledge  
To the fire  
Of the scent of flowers;

I want to stir my soul life  
With the sparkling drops  
Of the morning leaves;

I want to strengthen my soul being  
With the  
Salt-hardening  
With which the earth  
Carefully nourishes the roots.

V. Dornach, January 5, 1924

Experience the fire  
You walk with the sun.  
Warmth ♄

Experience the air  
You walk with the sunlight.

Experience water  
You walk with the sun's activity.  
Chem. ☾

Experience the earth  
You walk with the sun's life.  
♂♀

January 1924  
Notebook

Think of people in signs  
In their bones

Look at people in changing images  
In their muscles

Feel people in creative sound  
In their organs

Want people in meaningful words  
In the activity of the organs.

For V. January 7, 1924  
Notebook

You are the soul  
The body is God's  
Being within you

In your soul  
Dwells the spirit  
In your body  
The spirit dwells within

But let the spirit in the body  
Rule as God  
And let the spirit in the soul  
Rule as the self

For if the spirit of your soul  
Takes your body as its power  
Then you are physically ill  
And if the spirit of your body Takes your soul as its power Then you are sick in your soul.

January 1924  
Notebook

Look into your soul  
Luminous power  
Feel in your body  
The power of heaviness

In the power of light  
The spirit-ego shines  
In the power of heaviness  
The spirit of God is powerful

But the power of light  
Must not  
Be seized  
the power of heaviness  
Nor should  
the power of heaviness  
penetrate  
the power of light

For if the power of light  
grasps the power of heaviness  
and the power of heaviness  
penetrates the power of light  
then they bind  
Soul and body  
Into corruption. —

V. Dornach, January 9, 1924

At the threshold  
Darkness of the senses and light of the spirit  
Flow into each other in a dazzling spectacle

The image of this spectacle  
Is the disease

In the disease lives the guardian.  
Encounter in the spirit conscious  
Encounter in the body unconscious.

January 1924 Notebook

It was in ancient times,  
There lived in the souls of the initiated  
The powerful thought that sick  
By nature is every human being.  
And education was regarded  
As equal to the healing process  
Which, with the maturing of the child  
Brought health at the same time  
For the completion of human life.

In the 1st Circular Letter for Physicians  
March 11, 1924

Look at what fits together cosmically,  
You perceive the formation of human beings. ☾

Look at what moves you in the air,  
You experience the soul of humanity. ⊙

Look at what is changing on earth,  
You grasp the spiritualization of humanity. ♄

V. Dornach, April 22, 1924

Feel in the measure of fever  
The gift of Saturn's spirit

Feel in the number of pulses  
The soul power of the sun

Feel in the weight of matter  
The formative power of the moon:

Then you will see in your desire to heal  
Also the healing needs of earthly human beings.

V. Dornach, April 24, 1924

Push the early years  
Into the age of childhood  
And the age of childhood  
Into the age of youth:  
You will see condensed  
the etheric being of human beings  
behind their physical bodies —

Push the density of old age  
into the time of human maturity  
and the age of maturity  
into the life of youth:  
You will hear in the sounds of the world  
the workings of human souls  
from the etheric life.

V. Dornach, April 25, 1924

Feel the thinking!

It has lost:  
the burdens of the earth  
the weaving of the air  
the shining of the cosmos.

Strengthen the thinking!

It will win:  
the burdens of the earth will be very light  
the weaving of the air will be stronger  
the shining of the cosmos will be full of life.

Feel the will!

It has lost:  
the work of the cosmos  
the speech of the air  
the senses of the earth.

Strengthen the will!

It will prevail:  
the workings of the cosmos will be clearly audible  
the speech of the air will be almost intelligible  
the senses of the earth will be quietly alive.

April 1924  
Notepad

From ancient sacred places of sacrifice  
Healing arts once flowed  
Into human creation

Remember your revelation:  
Tell it at the new place of healing.  
And give spirit-bearing human souls  
hearing to your mysterious call  
So they will  
bring healing  
creating  
in the web of human life.

I will seek the power of the spirit's ears  
in a loving heart  
to hear the call.

Draft

Spoken by Mercury-Raphael

I) Behold an ancient custom:

In a place holy and dignified  
Flames arise, capturing hidden earthly forces,  
Carrying them in Mercury's fiery serpent seal  
Towards the gods —  
That in healers may be created  
What in the depths of crevices  
What in the blowing of the air  
What in the rays of light  
Banishes the evils of the earth. —

II) Renew the old custom:

Say what is reborn  
In a new place of healing  
Through your striving:  
And give spirit-borne human souls  
Hearing to your thoughts  
Over newly kindled fire serpent seals  
And if they want to create healing  
In the fabric of human life.  
They may vow to you:

I will awaken the power of the spirit's ears  
In a loving heart  
To hear your healing words.

September 1924  
For the internal circle of physicians

In the heart dwells  
In shining brightness  
Of the human being  
Helping spirit.

In the heart works  
In warming power  
Of the human being  
Helping power.

So let us carry  
The soul's full will  
In the warmth of the heart  
And in the light of our hearts,

Thus we bring  
Salvation  
To those in need of salvation  
Through God's grace.

For nurses  
1924/25

Live in the spirit,  
In the soul  
Finding oneself, weaving:  
The self is at work,  
And carries in the sun's rays  
To the creative power of the world  
The human being truly.

For Pastor Paul Klein  
1914/15

Feeling in need of YOUR grace,  
Christ, light of the world, I wait  
with all my strength  
opening the gates of my soul  
to YOUR enlightenment  
I will be still within myself  
and thank YOU for YOUR gift  
and give it  
as YOUR gift to people  
I want to be an instrument of YOUR word  
with my soul  
my best efforts  
my true depths  
my quietest reverence.

Notepad

To YOU  
Bearer of the Word of the World  
be directed  
my soul  
opening itself to YOUR  
gate of grace,  
YOUR  
gate of love;  
Send the Spirit,  
Who carries  
YOUR word  
Enlightenment  
YOUR word  
Warmth of love  
YOUR word  
Power of the heart  
Into my soul.

Silence reigns within me  
Silence weaves through me  
That I may hear  
THE VOICE OF YOUR SPIRIT  
THE WISE GUIDANCE OF YOUR SPIRIT  
That may speak  
from me  
Whom YOU deemed worthy  
me  
To place  
in the depths of my heart.  
Watch over my words  
Watch over my thoughts  
Watch over YOUR servant  
YOUR messenger.

For Pastor Paul Klein  
as meditation before the sermon  
August 1911

Consciousness fills me,  
That I must be a temple  
To the Word of the Creator of the World.

May my eyes learn to see in darkness  
May my mouth learn to speak in silent peace  
May my heart learn to feel in spiritual purity:

I see the spirit of the sun in the soul of the moon,  
I speak the word of God in the ears of the earth  
I feel the flow of spirit in human blood.

For priestesses  
of the Christian Community  
December 9/10, 1922

I will walk the path  
That dissolves the elements into events  
And leads me down to the Father  
Who sends illness to balance karma  
And leads me upward to the spirit  
Which guides the soul in error to gain freedom  
Christ leads downward and upward  
Harmoniously begetting spiritual man in earthly man.

For doctors and priests  
V. Dornach, September 18, 1924