THE ANTHROPOSOPHICAL SOUL CALENDAR
The course of the year as a prototype of human mental activity.
Rudolf Steiner's 52 weekly verses relate the outer course of the year to the life of the human soul. Each week has its spiritual focus. "In true self-knowledge, the I creates itself." The soul calendar is about the resurrection of a "Christ consciousness" in people, in which they learn to live with the weekly verses.
At Christmas, the saying goes: "I feel like the spirit child in the womb has been disenchanted." It is a spiritual birth that is being talked about. Thus the birth of the spirit child takes place in the Christmas season, and its conception accordingly in spring. In the calendar it is spread out as a mood throughout spring. Between conception and birth there is a psychological embryonic period that extends through summer and autumn.
In the weekly verses, a primal rhythm is revealed that can be awakened again.
The Soul Calendar consists of four parts, corresponding to the four seasons. As the earth breathes out her soul, life blooms on her surface. When she breathes in her soul, this life withers. The high point of the summer breathing is in the Johanna period, when the strangled soul "sleeps", the low point of the winter breathing is in the Holy Night, when the earthly soul "watches".
Rudolf Steiner in the first edition of the calendar 1912/13: "What the great world reveals in the course of time corresponds to a pendulum swing of the human being, which does not take place in the element of time. Rather, the human being can feel his being given to the senses and their perceptions , as corresponding to the summer nature interwoven with light and warmth. Being grounded in oneself and living in one's own world of thoughts and will he can feel as winter existence. Thus what in nature in the times becomes a rhythm of outer and inner life for him Alternation as summer and winter present themselves. We experience our own being as breathed out in the summer and breathed in thinking-willingly in the winter day."
Karlheinz Flau illustrated this graphically. E.g. the lemniscate: twice thirteen sayings on the summer half, and twice thirteen sayings on the winter hard; at the beginning Easter, in the middle Michael. When the soul inwardly follows the movement of the lemniscate, it experiences the spherical going out of itself and the centric going into itself; breathing out it becomes the soul of the spheres, breathing in the soul of the earth.
The prints are offered in three sizes. A4: €25 - A3: €35 - A2: €45
The course of the year as a prototype of human mental activity.
Rudolf Steiner's 52 weekly verses relate the outer course of the year to the life of the human soul. Each week has its spiritual focus. "In true self-knowledge, the I creates itself." The soul calendar is about the resurrection of a "Christ consciousness" in people, in which they learn to live with the weekly verses.
At Christmas, the saying goes: "I feel like the spirit child in the womb has been disenchanted." It is a spiritual birth that is being talked about. Thus the birth of the spirit child takes place in the Christmas season, and its conception accordingly in spring. In the calendar it is spread out as a mood throughout spring. Between conception and birth there is a psychological embryonic period that extends through summer and autumn.
In the weekly verses, a primal rhythm is revealed that can be awakened again.
The Soul Calendar consists of four parts, corresponding to the four seasons. As the earth breathes out her soul, life blooms on her surface. When she breathes in her soul, this life withers. The high point of the summer breathing is in the Johanna period, when the strangled soul "sleeps", the low point of the winter breathing is in the Holy Night, when the earthly soul "watches".
Rudolf Steiner in the first edition of the calendar 1912/13: "What the great world reveals in the course of time corresponds to a pendulum swing of the human being, which does not take place in the element of time. Rather, the human being can feel his being given to the senses and their perceptions , as corresponding to the summer nature interwoven with light and warmth. Being grounded in oneself and living in one's own world of thoughts and will he can feel as winter existence. Thus what in nature in the times becomes a rhythm of outer and inner life for him Alternation as summer and winter present themselves. We experience our own being as breathed out in the summer and breathed in thinking-willingly in the winter day."
Karlheinz Flau illustrated this graphically. E.g. the lemniscate: twice thirteen sayings on the summer half, and twice thirteen sayings on the winter hard; at the beginning Easter, in the middle Michael. When the soul inwardly follows the movement of the lemniscate, it experiences the spherical going out of itself and the centric going into itself; breathing out it becomes the soul of the spheres, breathing in the soul of the earth.
The prints are offered in three sizes. A4: €25 - A3: €35 - A2: €45