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Rudolf Steiner Archive

Calendar of the Soul

Northern Hemisphere
Week 42

In this the shrouding gloom of winter
The soul feels ardently impelled
To manifest its innate strength,
To guide itself to realms of darkness,
Anticipating thus
Through warmth of heart the sense-world's
revelation.

Southern Hemisphere
Week 16

To bear in inward keeping spirit bounty
Is stern command of my prophetic feeling,
That ripened gifts divine
Maturing in the depths of soul
To selfhood bring their fruits.

—Translation by Ruth and Hans Pusch

See GA 40 for full calendar and German text.

Occult Reading and Occult Hearing
GA 156

In these heartfelt lectures Steiner took his listeners through the inner experiences and moods of soul that are the vowels and consonants of the spiritual world.

These are the first four of eleven lectures given by Rudolf Steiner at Dornach in the Fall and Winter of 1914. They are from the lecture series entitled, Occult Reading and Occult Hearing, and were published in German as, Okkultes Lesen und Okkultes Hoeren.

This translation, by Dorothy S. Osmond.

I.The Human Being and his Relationship to the World October 03, 1914
II.Identification with the Signs and Spiritual Realities of the Imaginative World October 04, 1914
III.Inner Experiences and `Moods' of Soul as the Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World October 05, 1914
IV.Inner Mobility of Thought October 06, 1914

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