Dedicatory Inscriptions
The artist's goal is to imbue the masses,
the rigid, the dead, with life and spirit;
the researcher's goal is to give form and substance to the spirit, the fleeting, the mobile.
And when they reach the summit of their work,
then they must meet in one.
July 28, 1888 Rudolf Steiner
To the sculptor Hans Brandstetter, in his autograph book
To Mrs. Ilma Wilborn-Seiler!
What is written in this little book: I have not only written it, I have lived it, when the powers within me met in a consuming struggle; with words I sought to trace the paths of the struggling spirit; so accept it kindly, in whose speech the magic of the spirit's beauty is so wonderfully revealed, and who presents it with the deepest reverence.
Vienna, April 9, 1889 Rudolf Steiner
Dedication in “Fundamentals of a Theory of Knowledge”
Man sees clearly in the outer world only what he can illuminate with the light of his inner being.
To the painter Curt Liebich, with fond memories! Weimar, June 13, 1891 R. Steiner
On a photograph
History is in truth the development of the human race toward freedom. First, the spirit feels dependent on God, then it works its way toward freedom and recognizes itself.
Instead of believing in God
I believe in free human beings.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Notebook, 1892
A good person does what they should
A free person should do what they want.
February 18, 1894 Rudolf Steiner
For Prof. Leitzmann,
Jena Entry in the guest book
Eternal becoming in thought
Every step is at the same time a deepening
Overcoming the surface
Penetrating into the depths.
In “The Philosophy of Freedom” 1894
The eyes of a lover are blind to a woman's weaknesses.
So the saying goes! It never really suited me;
Only a loving organ seems to me to see,
Because only this can recognize the woman's virtue.
Weimar, July 15, 1895 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Emmy Eunike in her autograph book
The soul of man is a flower of the world, destined to mature the divine spirit within itself.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph, ca. 1896
The most beautiful gift a departing person can take with them is the memory of happy hours spent in the home of a dear friend.
Weimar, June 21, 1897 Rudolf Steiner
For Karl Otto Francke in the family album
That work gives rise to roots of strong willpower, He has shown us on the path of science.
For Wilhelm Liebknecht, Berlin, on the wreath ribbon of the Workers' Educational School August 10, 1900
Life is related to fire—
Both contain the seeds of beneficial effects;
Both place unequal demands on human beings.
That happiness may come to us in life without bitter pain
Can only be demanded by those who foolishly
Want fire without sacrificing fuel.
For Martha Eunike in an album
December 20, 1900
To seek the “meaning of life” is to enter the labyrinth of the soul; it is of no use to find one's way out of this labyrinth back into the open air of common reality, for once one is back, one has also lost the “meaning of life” again.
For Maria Stona in the guest book
Strzebowitz Castle, August 22, 1901
Human spiritual development is a continuous flow in which eternal truth is reflected in successive images. One such image, Christianity, is attempted to be captured on the following pages.
For Geni Eunike in “Christianity as a Mystical Fact”
November 6, 1902
The author of this book endeavored to explore the nature of the spirit
Just as the natural scientist seeks to explore the spirit of nature.
Miss Johanna Mücke at Christmas 1902
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In “Christianity as Mystical Fact”
Seek the light of the way!
But you will search in vain unless you yourself become light.
R. St.
For Marie von Sivers in “Light on the Path,” ca. 1904
It is the work of human beings to develop within themselves the power that works for the universe, and in doing so to recognize the part that has been assigned to them.
To his dear colleague Mathilde Scholl Amsterdam, June 22, 1904 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In “Theosophy”
The spiritual goals in which people find themselves are the noblest bond of friendship.
With warm regards to the Künstler couple
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Eugen and Maud Künstler in “Theosophy,” 1904
The love of the supersensible transforms the ore of science into the gold of wisdom.
To the champion of Theosophy in student circles, Mr. Ludwig Kleeberg, student of philosophy January 10, 1905 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In “Theosophy”
Mrs. C. Wandrey
Whoever is able to shape the present good into a
source of joy
and the past evil into a
lesson for life
will find the path to wisdom.
Berlin, May 22, 1905 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Camilla Wandrey on a photograph
Take joys as divine gifts of the present, but pains as lessons for the future.
June 14, 1905 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Astrid von Bethusy-Huc on a photograph
Man is a becoming god
God is a fulfilled human being.
Mrs. von Moltke, with warmest regards
June 30, 1905 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Eliza von Moltke, on a photograph
Life often tests us through suffering
It often leads us into error through joy
So let joy also be a test of the heart
But let suffering become a path to truth.
Miss Lüdemann, with kind regards
Cologne, December 1, 1905 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Bertha Lüdemann, on a photograph
We can appreciate joy in the present
But suffering only in the future.
The former are gifts of the good law
But the latter are the teachers of wisdom.
Stuttgart, January 1906
To Mr. Jaeck with warm regards Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Wilhelm Jacck on a photograph
We recognize joys as gifts of grace in the present
But sufferings reveal their value only when they are past.
The former bring happiness,
the latter produce wisdom.
Basel, January 12, 1906
With warm regards, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Geering-Christ family in the guest book
Mrs. Eugenie v. Bredow
Joys are gifts of fate
that prove their value in the present.
Suffering, on the other hand, is a source of insight
whose significance becomes apparent in the future.
Berlin, February 2, 1906
Sincerely, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
A mystery is hidden in the cosmos?
But man himself is the solution.
February 14, 1906
Sincerely, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Mathilde Scholl in the New Testament
Life is a school
Blessed is he who passes the test!
March 14, 1906 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Flossy v. Sonklar in a child's album
Quietly dwelling on the
beauties of life
Gives the soul the power of
feeling
Clear thinking about the
truths of existence
Brings the spirit the light of
Will.
Mrs. Maude Künstler, April 4, 1906
With warm regards, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In the New Testament
Knowledge and good deeds
in the present
become the builders
of the clairvoyant organs
in the future.
For Mathilde Scholl on a photograph, ca. 1906
Human knowledge
Reveals the spirit of the earth
Human deeds
Embody the meaning of this spirit.
Berlin, May 8, 1906
In memory of Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Franz Gerner on a photograph
The spirits of the earth, full of meaning
Come to revelation
In man's free action
And free action
Can only be the effect
Of selflessly attained wisdom.
Mrs. E. v. Bredow In memory
May 8, 1906 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
The meaning of the world is found in the soul of man
When the searching spirit truly discovers itself.
Mrs. L. v. Moltke In memory
May 15, 1906 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
Whoever always strives toward the spirit
May hope undaunted
That at the right time
He will not be without the guidance of the spirit.
In memory of Countess Bethusy-Huc
May 15, 1906 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
The meaning of the world is realized by the actions of human beings, illuminated by wisdom and warmed by love.
Bayreuth, August 1906 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
But teachers will shine like the splendor of heaven and like the stars forever and ever.
Bayreuth, August 1906 M. v. Sivers
For Ludwig Kleeberg in a memorial book
The hidden nature of mystery
Is revealed through human
Creative knowledge and knowing will.
December 3, 1906
For Mathilde Scholl
The meaning of the world
Is revealed in the human soul.
June 28, 1907
Sincerely, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Ludwig Kleeberg in “Friedrich Nietzsche, a fighter against his time”
If you seek yourself,
Seek outside in the world;
If you seek the world,
Seek within yourself.
August 6, 1907 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Time changes the face of things
But the essence remains eternal.
The deeds of human life change
But the core of the soul remains eternal.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Rietmann family 1908
The mysteries of life are solved in the warmth of a heart striving for the light of thought.
To his dear Rietmanns, Stuttgart, August 16, 1908
August 16, 1908 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
The direction toward the highest in the outer world
is given by the human being in the deepest part of his inner world.
For July 2, 1909 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
Human development is:
Igniting in the soul fire of love
The shining wisdom of the spirit.
Basel, September 25, 1909
For Astrid v. Bethusy-Huc on a photograph
The key to the spiritual world
Lies in the spiritual tools of the human being.
To the dear Kinkels
November 16, 1909 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Alice and Wilhelm Kinkel on a photograph
Thought is the interpreter that translates the gestures of experience into the language of reason.
To the dear Rietmanns, with warm regards
November 21, 1909 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In the guest book
Knowledge is the light
And love its warmth.
For Eliza v. Moltke on a photograph November 26, 1909
Only by experiencing the world within themselves, recognizing it,
can humans overcome their narrow existence.
Then they may feel
“Know thyself.”
It then tells them
Become within yourself
The instrument that reveals the world to you.
Miss Mieta Waller, the actress who played Johannes Thomasius, with warm regards, Rudolf Steiner
Date: September 5, 1910
In “The Gate of Initiation”
In the human heart beat
The highest powers of the earth
In the human soul live
The powers of the realm of the spirit
The goals of the spirit world
Beacon human striving
But the human self
Is itself spirit in spiritual realms.
And what in man
Calls itself “I”
Is only an image of itself.
So it is good to strive
As a human being, often and often
So one says powerfully
On days of life's turning points.
For Ella Sharp, 1911
The things in the vastness of space
Speak to the human senses
They change in the course of time
The human soul lives in recognition
Unlimited by the vastness of space
And undeterred by the passage of time
In the realm of spiritual eternity.
February 26, 1911 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Rietmann family in the guest book
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The things in the vastness of space
Press upon the human senses
They change in the course of time
The human soul weaves
Unlimited by the vastness of space
And undeterred by the passage of time
Its garment of eternity.
June 12, 1911 With warm regards
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In “Christianity as a Mystical Fact”
In the head, the power of faith
In the heart, the power of love
In the whole human being, strong hope
Holds and sustains life.
January 13, 1912 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Rietmann family in the guest book
March 6, 1912
The soul's earthly pilgrimage
Leads to steep mountain peaks
There the sharp stones of life speak
Their words are nothing else
But riddles and questions
That awaken a powerful longing:
Only when in the mountain huts of the soul
Where the spirit reigns calmly
The solution to the riddles beckons
And peace to the forces of longing:
Then the fruits of the spirit ripen
Into seeds for eternity.
In your pilgrimage through life
Guiding the spiritual eye,
These words appear to me
As signs of your being.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Günther Wagner on his 70th birthday
Not losing oneself in recognition
And preserving oneself in seeing
Not blinding oneself in feeling
And enlightening oneself in sensing
This solves the riddles of the soul and the worlds.
Mannheim, March 10, 1912
For Helene Röchling
July 2, 1912
In the struggle of the worlds and in times of trial
Preserve in the deepest core of your soul
The power of feeling for spiritual forces:
Such striving in the human heart
Preserves the self's control over life.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Eugenie v. Bredow in “Theosophy”
It presses upon the human senses
From worlds wide and mysterious
The rich abundance of matter
It also flows into the depths of the soul
From the depths of the world, rich in content
The clarifying light of the spirit
They find themselves within the human being
In wise reality.
To his dear Moriz Zitter In memory of the days of September 1912 With warmest regards Rudolf Steiner
In “The Guardian of the Threshold”
The plants live
In the power of sunlight
Human bodies work
In the power of soul light
And what the plant
The sun's heavenly light
That is to the human body
The spirit's soul light.
December 19, 1912 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Rietmann family in the guest book
Man hears the word of creation
When he listens with a pure heart
How world spirits through the soul
Reveal themselves musically and meaningfully.
Cologne, December 29, 1912 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Willy Conrad on a photograph
I want to guide him through life
With good thoughts:
That I have told him this,
May he remember often.
To my godson, April 15, 1913
For Wilfried v. Henning on a photograph
High world mysteries are seen
By those who behold in the human heart
How God's thinking creates spiritual goals.
Alfred Meebold in Munich in August 1913 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph
Immortality —
Unbornness;
only those who understand both
understand eternity.
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
In a book, 1914
As a faithful companion
To the flight of spiritual science
Always stands by true philosophy
Genuine, level-headed manner.
So let this book be received by the faithful collaborator Johanna Mücke from the author Dr. Rudolf Steiner
Berlin, July 21, 1914
In “The Riddles of Philosophy”
The forces are only empty shells,
If they lack spiritual content;
But they are creative forces
When they clothe the spirit.
Stuttgart, October 1, 1914 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Alice Kinkel on a photograph
In matter, the world-knower seeks
The eternal creative power of the spirit.
In the storm and in the fury of war
His spiritual vision is revealed
The wise goal of the gods of the world.
For Helene Röchling November 5, 1914
Receiving oneself from the world,
Experiencing the world as being oneself,
That is the path to the goal of the seer.
April 23, 1915
For Felix Knoll on a photograph
The secrets of your own soul
Explore in the face
That the world turns to you.
The inner side of the world
Explore in the face
That it imprints on your soul.
June 25, 1915 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Astrid v. Bethusy-Huc on a photograph
When calm smooths the waves of the soul
And patience spreads in the spirit
The word of the gods
Passes through the inner being of man
And weaves the peace
Of eternity
Into all life
Throughout the course of time.
For Helmuth von Moltke on a photograph
December 11, 1915
True self-knowledge is only granted to the human being
When he develops loving interest in others;
True knowledge of the world is only attained by the human being
When he seeks to understand his own nature.
For Bertha Ellram in “The Mystery of Man”
April 20, 1916
Truth experienced together
Is the life force in the striving of humanity.
Miss Johanna Mücke, our loyal colleague, with warmest regards, Dr. Rudolf Steiner Marie Steiner
In “The Mystery of Man”
July 1916
Truth experienced in community
Becomes world power in human striving.
To Mrs. Helene Röchling, with loyal friendship, presented on July 20, 1916 Dr. Rudolf Steiner Marie Steiner
In “The Mystery of Man”
What is conceived in life
Truly understood
The power of the soul
That truly awakens.
September 21, 1916
On a colored sketch by Hilde Pollak
The shadow cast by the spirit in space is beauty;
The shadow becomes a living being through the artist's creative spirit.
In faithful memory of the dear creator of this sketch, R. St.
Under a sketch by Jacques de Jaager
November 1916
Riddle
In the first, seek the foundation and goal of the all-encompassing world.
The second you strive for in order to know yourself as a human being;
Contemplate the whole, and you will understand:
How man rises above himself to the first.
{A double word; each word consisting of only one syllable.)
June 3, 1917
For Mathilde Scholl
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Because he knew how to transform
The material he was so passionate about
Into its purest form
He surrendered to his form
The spirit of being
In full vitality.
July 9, 1917
July 9, 1917 R. St.
In memory of beautiful hours in heartfelt friendship Marie Steiner
For Helene Röch. in “Poems” by C. F. Meyer
One seeks
the solution to the riddle of the world;
human beings themselves are the solution;
therefore, those who truly recognize themselves
as human beings
recognize the mystery of the world.
August 1, 1917 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Erna Bögel on a photograph
Why does the human soul strive, following a dark longing
for self-knowledge?
Because the essence of the world
is not graspable in the light of ideas
or in the fabric of concepts.
It lies in the human self;
It lies in the human self;
When this is revealed,
The becoming of the world is revealed.
August 1, 1917 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Helene Röchling on a photograph
In the universe
The human being weaves
In the core of the human being
The mirror image of the world reigns
The I connects both
And thus creates
The true meaning of existence.
Greetings to Mrs. Hahn from R. St.
For Marie Hahn Autumn 1917
The light of the sun strengthens the creation of the earth
The sunlight of truth strengthens the human heart.
July 20, 1916 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Hedda Hummel in “The Riddle of Man”
In the realm of the senses
The will of the spirit is hidden
And so it appears as “matter.”
In human willpower
The soul's essence
Hides from its own “I.”
In seeing with the will
In willing with the eyes
There the soul finds
Itself, there
The ‘dead’ find
Themselves with the “living.”
January 4, 1918 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For Eliza von Moltke in “The Riddle of the Soul”
On the day of becoming,
the beings of ancient times
carry thoughts of love
from heart to heart
And they may the thoughts
Consolidate into a lasting memory
Of the festival of becoming.
January 28, 1918 For Helene Röchling
On her birthday, on the drawing of the Cabiri
To explore the world
By looking,
To find the world
Alive within oneself:
Is the carrying power of existence.
March 26, 1918 Rudolf Steiner
People ask
For the solution to the world's riddle
And thereby fail
To see how life
In its successive rhythms
Is the true solution
To this riddle.
March 26, 1918 Rudolf Steiner
For Hans Hasso von Veltheim on a photograph
After the world's riddle
Man must ask;
But it is not solved
In words or concepts. —
Look at the human soul:
It is the solution itself.
April 5, 1918 Dr. Rudolf Steiner
On a photograph for a friend of Franz Gerner
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The world's riddle
It cannot be solved with words and ideas alone
Looking at human beings
One grasps the solution in a life of recognition.
April 10, 1918 Rudolf Steiner
For Johanna Mücke in “Von Seelenrätseln” (On the Riddles of the Soul)
Do you want to solve the riddle of the world?
But you can only solve it
By looking at people and recognizing them
For they themselves are the solution to the mystery of the world.
April 10, 1918 Rudolf Steiner
For Helene Röchling in “Von Seelenrätseln”
Fercher von Steinwand
To grasp in the chorus of primal dreams
Ideas that become revelation
Of the forces that in the primordial movement
Are the soul of the world:
That is what this poet wanted;
And it is beautiful to follow him
Through primordial dreams
Into the realm of primordial impulses.
1918
In the mystery of the world, man sees himself,
In the mystery of man, the world reveals itself.
For Ludwig and Berta v. Polzer-Hoditz
in the guest book, June 1918
Why does the human
searching soul
strive for knowledge
of the higher worlds?
Because every soul-sprung glance
into the sensory world
becomes a longing question
about the spirit being.
For Johanna Mücke in “How does one attain knowledge of the higher worlds?”
July 7, 1918
In the free human being
The universe is summarized
So take hold of yourself with a free mind
And you will find the world within you
Carry yourself into the world
And through you the spirit of the world will be!
E.M. on October 15, 1918
In memory of R. St.
For Edith Maryon in “The Philosophy of Freedom”
Warm greetings from the body
Warm greetings in spirit
from the faithful companion from the land of souls
The greeting of love:
In the spirit, the human being finds
The way to the light of the soul
In the light of the soul
The word of God,
Which is support in joy and sorrow.
October 19, 1918
By R. St.
For Pauline v. Kalckreuth in “The Philosophy of Freedom” on her birthday
You want to think “God”:
So speaks Goethe's soul;
With this desire
You plunge yourself into contradiction and doubt.
You should think “divinely”;
And “God” works in you:
This is how Goethe sensed the solution
To the riddle of God
And so the solution must be
Thought spiritual science.
E. M. on November 30, 1918
The author of this book
For Edith Maryon in “Goethe's Worldview”
When in bright circles of the mind
The soul allows
The pure power of thought to reign,
It is seized by the knowledge of freedom.
When, in a fully comprehended life,
The freely conscious human being
Shapes his will into being,
Then freedom becomes reality.
December 7 Sincerely, Dr. Rudolf Steiner
With love, Marie Steiner
For Helene Röchling in “The Philosophy of Freedom,”
December 7, 1918
When the human being recognizes himself:
The self becomes the world;
When man recognizes the world:
The world becomes the self.
Dornach, December 24, 1918
For Elisabeth Vreede for the “Seelenkalende”
It is something deeply hidden,
Something that passes through all eternity,
But separated from your consciousness
by an abyss.
Berlin, 1918 Rudolf Steiner
For Pauline v. Kalckreuth
Search within your own being:
And you will find the world;
Search in the workings of the world
And you will find yourself;
Notice the pendulum swing
Between self and world:
And the human-world-being
Will reveal itself to you;
the essence of the world and humanity.
Warmly addressed to my dear friend Hans Reinhart
February 27, 1919 Rudolf Steiner
Search within your soul:
You will find the mysteries of the world;
And then trust in life
And let it teach you:
You will then live the solution to the mysteries of the world.
April 1, 1919 Rudolf Steiner
For the Rietmann family in the guest book
Search in the world around you
And you will find yourself as a human being,
Search within your own human being
And you will find the world.
For Anna Samweber
June 19, 1919
Search within yourself for the light,
And you will find the world;
Search outside yourself for meaning,
And you will find yourself.
Stuttgart, September 1, 1919 Rudolf Steiner
For Hans Kühn in “The Key Points of the Social Question”
January 28, 1920
For Helene Röchling:
The years flow into the stream of time,
Leaving humans with memories;
And in memory, the soul weaves
Its being together with the meaning of life.
Experience the meaning; trust in being:
And the beings of the world will unite
The core of your existence with themselves.
On your birthday
If you strive to direct your attention
To the spirit of world existence
You will find yourself
As a free human being in the field of destiny.
If you turn away from it
And keep your mind focused only on the illusory beings of the day
You will lose yourself
As a human image in the game of destiny.
For Mieta Waller on her birthday
February 18, 1920
Man finds himself by recognizing the world,
and by recognizing himself, the world reveals itself to him.
For Wilhelm Nedella
February 25, 1920
Dornach (Canton Solothurn)
February 27, 1920
A new dawn for the white race
Will reveal itself in the earthly realm
Only when this race of knowledgeable people
Feel the soul's bond with the spirit;
And in them will work
A sense of shame
That blackens the soul when they
Want to understand the human being through material sense
.
For Richard Teschner on his series of paintings “Three Cultural Races”
The white race's new dawn
Will reveal itself on Earth
Only when the best people of this race
Feel the material sense
As shameful, because it extinguishes
The consciousness of true human beings.
Draft
Know thyself
And you will find the secrets of the world;
Behold the world
And you will find the secrets of the self.
July 18, 1920, Dornach
For Ludwig Noll on his birthday
Man finds
The eternal ground,
When, with complete trust,
He senses in the depths of his being
The work of God. —
August 17, 1920 Rudolf Steiner
For Carola Nedella on a photograph
If you want to know the world:
Look first into your own heart;
If you want to know yourself:
Look properly into the universe. —
August 17, 1920 Rudolf Steiner
For Wilhelm Nedella on a photograph
Knowledge of the world, knowledge of oneself:
From one to the other
The soul's longing swings questioningly.
It often seems to wave comfortingly
The solution to the riddle of its existence:
But the next swing of the pendulum
Gives birth to
Only a new riddle of life.
But when, instead of knowing the world
According to the foundations of existence,
And also instead of knowing oneself
the eternal essence of man:
she seeks selfhood in the vastness of the world
and the universe in the self;
she does not achieve the goals of knowledge,
but paths
into the life of knowledge
will open up to her; soul-bearing,
spirit-lifting, world-revealing.
Dornach, October 1920: Goetheanum
Dr. Rudolf Steiner
For the Bernese Free Students in the “Golden Book”
Healing is only possible when
In the mirror of the human soul
The whole community is formed
And in the community
The power of the individual soul lives.
November 5, 1920 Rudolf Steiner
For Edith Maryon in “In Execution of the Threefold Division ...”
To replace the imagined spirit
With the active spirit
Means in this time
To feel the fundamental social requirement.
For Edith Maryon in “The Fundamental Social Requirement of Our Time”
1921
In art, man redeems
The spirit bound in the world.
In musical art, man redeems
The spirit bound within himself.
With kind regards and thanks for the musical rehearsal, August 30, 1921
For Franz Langer Thomastik Quartet Vienna
Memory and love
They place the human being
In earthly life
They lead him
Back to the spirit,
When memory in pictorial thinking
And love in soul devotion
Break free from the senses.
January 28, 1922
Rudolf Steiner Marie Steiner
For Helene Röchling
Recognize the inner being
In the foundations of the world spirit;
And the inner power of the world,
It can reveal to you
The search in your own soul power.
So seek the inner in the outer
And the world in your own being.
In memory of the days at the beginning of February 1922
For Carl and Johanna von Keyserlingk in the guest book
For Edith Maryon on December 26, 1922
When man discovered how the world
Is endlessly shattered into atoms,
His knowledge was linked
With the death of nature;
He should now strive in spirit
To find what overcomes what is shattered,
And he will direct his knowledge
Towards the becoming of the world.
Rudolf Steiner
Man carries within him
The future of the world
When he transforms the meaning of his deeds
Into the power of thought
And through the eye of thought
Sees the spiritual power of the sun.
Dornach, January 28, 1923
Blessings for the new year of life
Marie Steiner
For Helene Röchling
Edith Maryon on February 9, 1923:
Human powers are twofold in nature;
A stream of powers flows inward:
It gives form and inner rootedness;
A stream of powers flows outward:
It gives well-being and illumination of life;
Therefore, think of yourself as a light-filled human being
If you are plagued by the formative forces of the heavy physical human being.
Rudolf Steiner
On your birthday
Self-knowledge
is rooted in knowledge of the world
Knowledge of the world springs from
self-knowledge.
Rudolf Steiner
For Ludwig v. Polzer-Hoditz on a photograph, April 1923
Human beings need inner loyalty,
Loyalty to the guidance of spiritual beings.
They can build upon this loyalty
Their eternal being and essence
And thereby fill their sense of being with eternal light
And strength.
To the dear Rietmann family
April 12, 1923 Rudolf Steiner
In the guest book
If you seek the world
Then explore your own heart
If you want to know your own soul
Then search the world in all directions.
May 1, 1923
For Hermine Kuha, Prague
There are moments in life
When many things
Lead to important decisions for people;
If these moments are happy,
Then the value of life
Will be all the greater
If people do not merely enjoy them,
But in quiet reflection
Want to shape them powerfully
Into effective self-knowledge.
June 3, 1923
Goetheanum Rudolf Steiner
For Ilona Bögel
If you want to understand the world:
Look within yourself;
If you want to understand yourself:
Look at the world.
Stuttgart, October 16
Rudolf Steiner
Handwriting sample for the Prussian State Archives
1923
We humans of the present
Need the right ear
For the spirit's morning call,
The morning call of Michael.
Spiritual knowledge wants
To open up the soul
To this true hearing of the morning call.
To the dear Rietmann family
October 21, 1923
Rudolf Steiner M. Steiner
You should dare
Boldly with the eagle
To ask about the mysteries of the world;
But also not despair
When, in anticipation of the answer
You must endure the patience of a lamb.
December 15, 1923 Rudolf Steiner
On a design for a piece of jewelry for Andreas v. Grunelius
If you want to know the world
Search the depths of your own heart;
If you want to see your own being
Walk through the mysteries of the worlds!
January 1924 Rudolf Steiner
For an anthroposophist in America on a photograph
Hearts interpret karma
When hearts learn
To read the word
That is shaped
In human life
When hearts speak
They learn the word
That is shaped
In human beings.
To my Mysa
February 27, 1924 Rudolf Steiner
For Ita Wegman on a photograph
To Marie:
Birthday verse for March 14, 1924
Whoever can count in the right sense
The years of his life that have passed away,
To him the spirit steps
Of God's number are revealed, through which he walks on earth
Toward the goal of light set before souls
In the book of existence, in which is recorded
All human becoming since eternity.
Rudolf St.
For Marie Steiner
In love for the house in Koberwitz
To the noble seat of good anthroposophists
We came anew
Seeking hearts that are faithful
To nurture the spirit of action
That shows the best way in this house.
The love we found
Will form the most beautiful bonds.
With heartfelt thanks
Rudolf Steiner Marie Steiner
On leaving after the Whitsun conference, June 17, 1924, for Carl and Johanna v. Keyserlingk in the guest book
King Arthur's Castle Hotel
Tintagel, Cornwall
My dear Mr. Steffen,
We come from the meaningful ruins of castles,
Where the ancient demon slayers once sat
Strengthening the leader's power through the twelve stars.
The castles lie in ruins, Astral morality has fallen silent;
But spiritual power swirls around the mountain,
And the power of the soul storms from the sea.
Magically changing are the rings of light and air,
Which powerfully penetrate the soul
Even today, after three thousand years:
And from the elements of memory images
We send you, in faithful spirit
And cordiality, loving greetings
Rudolf Steiner
August 17, 1924
For Johanna Mücke
October 29, 1924
Sixty years – world migration
Those who love you look back
On the hardships and sorrows
That were richly bestowed upon you.
But they also look with joy
At how you were able to form
A true, genuine, action-oriented
Human being from the world migration. —
And a large part
Of your world journey
Was to be spent together with us
That was their destiny.
So please accept
The heartfelt congratulations
They come from our love for you
Which has been strengthened over decades
And reaches you
In the warmth of our souls
Which is constantly renewed
is constantly renewed.
On your birthday
Good thoughts, light
illuminate your path
Thoughts that, through Michael's power
preserve people in their essence
the divine-spiritual
that opened the gates of the worlds to them.
For Wilhelm Lewerenz and Maria Brouwer on their wedding day, November 25, 1924