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A. P. SHEPHERD - ''THE TRINITY IN MAN AND NATURE''

A. P. Shepherd    THE TRINITY IN MAN AND NATURE  (Originally given as a lecture at the members' conference of the Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain, Ripon, 1959) I n this article I am attempting to expound a concept of the nature of Being and Reality that has been in my mind for the past eighteen years. I shall be covering ground that many have explored and written about, but for the most part I shall make little reference to other points of view. To present a subject such as this in one article must involve omissions and tentative statements, but I hope I shall succeed in making plain the general theme of my argument.  As every student of Anthroposophy knows. Dr Steiner revealed the presence of Man and Nature of many trinities or threefold relationships. Man is spirit, soul and body: in his earthly life he functions through three sheaths, the astral, the etheric and the physical; he expresses himself in thinking, feeling and willing. In his physical manifestation he is hea
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  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
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