This Michaelic Age

52 Weeks of Steiner – The Return

A Verse For Our Time
(For This Michaelic Age)
Attributed to Rudolf Steiner

We must eradicate from the soul
All fear and terror of what comes towards man out of the future.

We must acquire serenity
In all feelings and sensations about the future.

We must look forward with absolute equanimity
To everything that may come.

And we must think only that whatever comes
Is given to us by a world-directive full of wisdom.

It is part of what we must learn in this age,
namely, to live out of pure trust,
Without any security in existence.

Trust in the ever present help 
Of the spiritual world.

Truly, nothing else will do
If our courage is not to fail us.

And let us seek the awakening from within ourselves
Every morning and every evening.

Morning:

O Michael, under your protection I place myself;
With your guidance I connect myself
Wholeheartedly, so that this day may become
An image of [our]* destiny-ordering Will.

Evening:

I carry my sorrow into the setting sun,
Place all my worries into her radiating womb.
Purified in love, transformed in light,
They return as helping thoughts,
As strength for self-sacrificing deeds

And thus begins another Michaelmas season. Grasp your swords and go bravely into the depths!

(This is the final post of a weekly serial started on Michaelmas 2023. To see the other entries, please see the post linked HERE and scroll down to the bottom for individual links)

Until next time,
Marina