Addenda to “Spiritual Exercises I” GA 267
Morning:
Radiant ......
Self.
Inhale Hold your breath Exhale (1:3:2)
1.) Concentrate on your eyebrows I am
2.) Concentration on the larynx It thinks (It = world thinking)
3.) Concentration on the heart, arms, hands She feels (She = world soul)
4.) Concentration on the solar plexus He wills (He = God)
Immersion in the divine ideal
During the day in rotation 6 supplementary exercises
Evening: Review of the day's life.—
Left foot, left leg: I stand firm in existence
Right foot, right leg: I cry out confidently on the path of life
ca. 1906
Evening:
Review. From evening to morning. 5 min.
Father
✝
Holy Spirit
Through the Father, all my life
Through Him, all my being
In the Son, all my striving
In life and also in death
Through the Spirit, all truth
Of the heart and also of the mind
Thus I receive light, love, life.
(Peace of mind)
Morning:
Everything in me
From the divine
In Christ
I sacrifice everything in me
And also my life
So I will awaken
Now and in all the future
In the spirit of the world.
(Peace of mind)
Undatable
Morning:
The sun dawns,
The stars fade away.
The soul dawns,
The dreams fade away,
Day, take me in.
Day, protect me
In my changing earthly life.
Evening:
When the starry world
My self into the realm of the spirit
Sleeping, transported:
I draw soul power
From the effective power of the world,
To strive toward the spirit.
Undated
Evening:
As from a golden ground
The bright cross
With the bright roses
So from the depths of the world
Christ's essential light
With the warm power of love
Into me
In the morning:
Into me:
With the warm power of love
So from Christ's light of being
And from the depths of the world
Like the bright roses
In the light cross
On a golden background (flows)
Occult Science p. 306. 6 Qualities
Presumably for Mathilde Scholl
1910 or later
Evening:
Imagination of the starry sky:
In worlds wide, search devoutly
Search hopefully, search courageously
My soul, light, love, truth.
(Peace of mind)
Morning:
Peace guide my life
Calm fill my striving
For light, love, truth.
(Peace of mind)
For Johanna Hart-Nibbrig
May 8, 1912
Morning verse
Toward the light
May my soul turn,
In the light
May my soul live
The world spirit's
Pure power,
Pure truth.
Evening verse
To spiritual heights
My soul strives,
On spiritual paths
My soul seeks
The warmth of love
The power of light,
The strength of will.
For Jean and Else Boldt April 1912
Morning:
Imagine the rising of the sun, accompanied by the roar of thunder:
And its rays also pour into my soul
Then:
In the beginning was the Word,
That it might dwell in me.
Then:
In the realms of the spirit dwelt
the true being of my soul.
It withdrew into the earthly realm,
Carry it powerfully
Light from the realms of the spirit
Steadily into the earthly realm!
Evening:
Spiritual light illuminates the vastness of the world,
Spiritual light shines through human works,
In the depths of my soul
I want to look with anticipation,
I want to feel there
The vastness of the world's spiritual light —
As my own creative power.
(Peace of mind)
For Helene Johanna de Boer-Gerlach March 1913
In the evening after looking back:
Sunlight on the earthly place that carries me.
Christ light in the soul being that lives in my heart.
In the morning:
Christ light in the soul being that lives in my heart.
Sunlight on the earthly place that carries me.
Accompanied by the image of myself being illuminated by the sun.
For Mina Gerst
March 1914
In the evening:
🕈
It stirs in the human heart
Hidden thoughts of the day
The will of God's world
I now want to be still
Completely still and silent in my thoughts
Awaiting what within me
God wants to speak.
In the morning:
Enlighten my thinking
Warm my feelings
Strengthen my will
And soul and spirit
Receive
In the world's being, the divine being
For effective ruling.
For Robert Oswin Sobeczko, ca. 1914
Evening: Review of the day's life.
To unite me
The origin of the spirit and the soul
I step back asleep
Into the universe
From which
I
was born.
In the morning:
From the universe
I return
To the familiar light of day
To spread my soul
Into the vastness of space
And into the succession of time.
For Arnold Ith, ca. 1921
In the evening:
1.) Review. Pictorial, retrospective. 5-6 min.
2.) Read 5-6 lines of theosophy and memorize them
🕈 p. 325
Meditation for 10 min.:
In the beginning was the Word
And the Word was with God
And God was the Word
(peace of mind)
[p. 325: Refers to the Rosicrucian meditation in the 1920 edition of “An Outline of Esoteric Science”]
Morning:
1.) Recall the 5-6 lines
Then again
🕈
Meditation on:
And let the Word be in me
And let my soul be with the Word
And let my soul work from the Word
(peace of mind)
For Otto Sepp
1920 or later
🕈 black
The high spirit of the world
which from this sign
speaks to my soul
Be understood by me
Be taken into my inner being,
That He may give me
Light, love, life.
🕈 white
Pious and reverent
Guide my soul the spiritual gaze
Into the high worlds of the soul,
Drawing strength and fortitude
To find light, love, life.
Undatable
Evening:
Review
Imagine: Spread out before you is a green canvas that turns red, then yellow. Back to red. Green, red, yellow, red, green.
Meditate:
Divine willpower strengthens my soul.
Peace of mind
Morning:
Imagine: Walking up a mountain...
At the top: a figure that you recognize as Christ.
He says to my heart:
The power of my word strengthens your heart.
Peace of mind. Practice trust.
Throughout the day, the supplementary exercises
undatable
In the morning:
Imagine a chapel in which I am inside:
a.) Strength
b.) Truth
c.d.) Light
Through strength and through truth
light comes to me And light
permeates me.
Evening:
a.) Strength
b.) Love
c.d.) Warmth
Through strength and through love
I receive warmth
And warmth permeates me.
For Jacoba Elisabeth Vreede-Schill
May 8, 1924
Evening:
Spread out in the vastness
Weave in flowing beings
Spiritual world being
You, my soul
Feel yourself strong and capable
And through you
The spiritual world being.
Morning:
Feel, soul
Your wings
Can you hold
Their holy goodness
Spiritual levitation
You will find
Spiritual world being.
Probably for Ernst Gimmi Undatable
Evening:
4-5 min.
Wise
World will
Penetrates
Into your soul
To become
Loving thinking
Thinking love.
(Peace of mind)
Morning:
4-5 min.
Thinking love
Loving thinking
Receive
My soul
Given by
World will
In wisdom fullness
(Peace of mind)
6 exercises: Concentration of thought, initiative of action, balance of pleasure and pain, positivity, impartiality, harmonization of the previous
For Karl Keller
November 29, 1923
Evening: Star above my head:
Star of my life
Guide the powers of my heart
Fill the innermost part of my soul
I surrender to your light
I surrender to your power
I follow your wisdom
May my being be in you
Morning: Sun before me on the horizon: Sun speaks:
Follow my worldly path
Follow into the fields of the spirit
Where you will find
The power of life
The courage of the soul
The light of the spirit
The steadfastness of the self.
For Sophie Dostal
April 3, 1924