From Sonnets to Orpheus, Part 1, Number 19 By Rainer Maria Rilke Like cloud-shapes, torn and molded by the wind, the world is being changed, and rapidly. What comes into the Fullness falls toward the Ancient Source, and gratefully. Soaring over the tumult and the change, like some great bird, borne further and higher, intones the Song that pierced the dawn on that First Day, O God of the lyre. No one ought ever love their suffering, but no one ever loves without its pain; and as we die, we come to wondering if there was something we could not yet see— that winged Thing that merges with Earth’s suffering to make us what we otherwise would never be.
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Buchenwald Goethe November poem and Jaques Lusseyran
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Buchenwald Concentration Camp was previously a beech forest where Goethe walked and wrote. One oak tree remained in the camp which held 100,000 prisoners and is now a memorial stump. November Song To the great archer—not to him To meet whom flies the sun, And who is wont his features dim With clouds to overrun— But to the boy be vow'd these rhymes, Who 'mongst the roses plays, Who hear us, and at proper times To pierce fair hearts essays. Through him the gloomy winter night, Of yore so cold and drear, Brings many a loved friend to our sight, And many a woman dear. Henceforward shall his image fair Stand in yon starry skies, And, ever mild and gracious there, Alternate set and rise. +++ November Lied - Goethe 1 Dem Schützen, doch dem alten nicht, 2 Zu dem die Sonne flieht, 3 Der uns ihr fernes Angesicht 4 Mit Wolken überzieht, 5 Dem Knaben sei dies Lied geweiht, 6
The Freedom of Christ by Alfred Heidenreich
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The Freedom of Christ By Alfred Heidenreich First published in The Christian Community Journal Sept.-Oct. 1956 On my recent journey to South America I repeatedly met people who said that they could not see that Christ was “necessary”. In a way, one can deal with this question fairly easily if one enlarges the conception of man’s fallen nature and awakens a picture of the sickness of sin which no mere teaching, even of the greatest Founders of Religions could take away. But in a sense, there is truth in the thought that Christ was not “necessary”. There is nothing in the scheme of things that made His coming inevitable, in the sense that spring necessarily follows winter and day follows night. No necessity of desire or natural law compelled Him to come. In fact, the New Testament has always said so. Christ’s coming was a deed of love, of grace, of utter freedom. “God so loved the world….” And therefore Christ and His deed can only be understood by an act of free loving cognit
shepherd aug 2023
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5 June 2023 A. P. Shepherd and his 'Battle for the Spirit' There is a good chance that you have read 'A Scientist of the Invisible' by A. P. Shepherd. The book provides an excellent introduction to the life and works of Dr Steiner and was first published in 1954 by Hodder & Stoughton. It has has an introduction by Owen Barfield and there have been several editions by Floris books, Edinburgh. Understandably some of the information is now out of date as there are more St. 'A Scientist of the Invisible' is well worth reading again after a few years us are very grateful. and helpful to know something about the almost 'invisible author' to whom many of The authors full name is Arthur Pearce Shepherd, he was born in Barbados 1885, son of an English doctor and came to England at the age of five. He was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1911 and became first Curate of All Saints, Northampton and, in a few years, the Vicar of St James. In 193