Michaelmas 2015

Introduction: For Michaelmas last year I posted here a number of new verses I thought appropriate for the occasion (see under September Posts 2014) Here is a group of older ones which I hope you will find of interest for this 2015 Festival time:

R.S. and The Turning Point of History He observed the Light Source By which the world was known And that was how the Wall of Faith At last was overthrown. And now the Mysteries of Wisdom and Love Are opened to human knowledge, The which, like him, we can  confirm With Michaelic courage. 10/5/05 One Moral Deed Forever Christ is the Archetype of Freedom And His descent at the Jordan River Sacrificed that freedom in the following three years By uniting with humanity forever. Then He who had willingly become unfree On Golgotha became free again To the extent the humanity He loved Followed him in becoming free men. 11/26/05 It’s My Decision Michael follows the Cosmic Intelligence Which in time has been passed to me, And it is needed to govern the cosmos But to return it or not I’m free.  “Don’t give up this treasure now yours,” Says the Tempter in the Earth Garden. “You are now free and together with me The Cosmos can become your New Eden.” And O the power that therein speaks As my intelligence to intellect grows And  into the Cosmos from the earth-made-Brain That technological Intellect goes. 2/21/06 Seed of the Logos As Adam of Old my biography was In the original evolutionary stream; In it I slept, then gradually in time I came to the state of dream. But with the Turning Point of Time Autobiography in history began As I woke to the “logos spermatikos” As the truth of who I am. And now I strive that there come to be Evolution fulfilled in my history. 5/29/06 Seed of the Logos As Adam of Old my biography was In the original evolutionary stream; In it I slept, then gradually in time I came to the state of dream. But with the Turning Point of Time Autobiography in history began As I woke to the “logos spermatikos” As the truth of who I am. And now I strive that there come to be Evolution fulfilled in my history. 5/29/06

The New Tempter Christ no longer evolves the world, Though Evolver He has been in time, But the Cosmic Intelligence from the Beginning Is now completely mine. And that will further evolve the world But to use it evolved I must be, And the how of that the Christ has shown With Love that leaves me free. And I am trying to follow Him While resisting the best I can The power that’s offered by Earth’s Dark Lord For the price of who I am. 4/8/064 Eve Remembers Her heart knew the very truth of him, So she embraced him when he came; He who was her free letter of love  In the envelope of her shame. (But in freedom he could not have come at all If she had not brought him to the Fall.) 4/10/06 The Would-Be-Free Each day he strives for a little while (This truth I’m allowed to tell) To take the world from out of his mind And then in pure thinking to dwell. He says it’s not easy to do at all But the Bread of Life does come, No longer feeding the old Adam of him But the new one of Life now begun. And once a week he meets with friends Who’re striving the same as he, And at that time there flows the Wine Of the Communion of the would-be-free. 4/12/05 While Michael Waits I’m a Being whose relation Is essential to the Earth at this time, But another Being is attempting through me To usurp this relation of mine. And this He does only because My thinking inclines so much to His kind of thinking which lacks Earth relations  Except through the thinking I do. And this is the way He will come to rule The Earth and embalm it forever As the prison of all who think like him, A thinking diabolically clever. All this while Michael waits to be Called into this battle by thinking that’s free. 4/17/065

Verses for Children (Waldorf School Perspective) Grades 1-3

Introduction: ( This Post was written a long time ago and was forgotten for posting. The other blog promised below is now on its way to reality)
( Another blog connected with this one will be available later on that covers the 1-8 grades with some plays as well as verses of different kinds.)
 The Ideal: (Condensed from the lecture here noted.) Moral nature is awakened through feelings stimulated by pictures authoratatively conveyed primarily by a teacher possessed of imagination and is a model for the children. "Human Values in Education" by Rudolf Steiner.

Consonants and Vowels) (First Grade) M Mighty are the mountains, Massiveness is theirs, And an M they often make When they meet in pairs. Blended Consonants  TH Thistle, thistle though you be Prickle thick and sharp to me, Above your thorns I love your crown, Soft feathered thatch of thistle-down. Sounds from the Soul (Vowels) (With Fun) A, AI ,EI, An elephant is of very great weight, A butterfly is of a weightless state, I'd wait with a butterfly on my nose But not with an elephant weight on my toes. From the Fairy Tale the "Fisherman and His Wife" (First Grade) Five times the fish in the ocean foam Gave to the woman a very fine home, But she was greedy and asked for more, So the fish sent her back what she's had before.

Saints and Animals (Second Grade) Stubborness Two goats met at a chasm Each on the different side, And each began to cross over on the tree trunk That bridged that chasm wide. Alas the trunk was narrow And no passing could there be, So stubbornly they butted each other until Both fell to die most miserably. The Song of the Birds (For morning singing) Bluebird was so very sick He lay abed and could not fly, And all his many friends then thought That he would surely die. But when good Hummingbird was chosen As the wisest of all birds, To all his feathered friends around him Sang he to them these learned words: “When the Lord of Light arises From his cave there in the East, Sing we all with joy and pleasure, Sing the greatest and the least.” So they did, and O the wonder! Bluebird chirped then flew away, So for good health the birds then decided The’d all sing each dawn of day. (Third Grade Material at another time.)

New Page

Introduction, Dear Readers, This Saturday's Post is to give notice of a new Page, an excerpt from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner entitled "The Michael Path to Christ." Enjoy!