Fifth Recapitulation Lesson

> The Guardian, utterly in earnest > You stride into earth being’s helm > With deployment of your force of will; > Enter as thinker the earth domain, > And thought-power will show you yourself > As your intrinsic animality; > The fear of yourself > Must change you in courage of soul. > You live with water being > Only through feeling’s dream-weaving; > water existence, > And the soul will reveal itself in you > As plant existence dank and dull; > Then lameness of yourself > Must lead you on to wakefulness. > You muse in wafting ways of air > Only in memory's picture-forming; > Enfold willingly airy being, > And intrinsic soul will threaten you > As cold observing stone; > Yet your selfhood's frigid death > Must weaken and yield to spirit fire. > The Guardian speaks as if > the World Word itself resounded > You hold of light’s radiant might > Thoughts alone fast within; > When light’s radiance thinks by itself in you, > So will untruthful spirit-being > Arise in you as self-delusion; > Reflecting on the needs of earth > Will hold you in humanity. > You hold of world chemism > Feelings alone fast within; > When world forming feels by itself in you, > So will powerless spirit experience > Smother your self-possession; > Yet loving the value of the earth > Will save your human soul. > You hold of world life > Will alone fast within; > When world living fully captures you, > So will ruinous spirit rapture > Slay your experience of yourself; > Yet spirit-devoted earth-willing > Will allow the god in man to rule. > Ex Deo Nascimur > In Christo Morimur > Per Spiritum Sanctum Reviviscimus > I honor the Father > I love the Son > I unite with the Spirit