VERSE FOR AMERICA

Given by Rudolf Steiner to the Threefold Group in Spring Valley NY 1923

May our feeling penetrate
Into the center of our heart
And seek, in love, to unite itself
With the human beings seeking the same goals,
With the spirit beings,
Who, bearing grace,
Strengthening us from realms of light,
And illuminating our love,
Are gazing down
Upon our earnest, heartfelt striving.

A Verse for Our Time

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.