# 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