Thursday, September 6, 2012

APPENDIX II - The Foundation Stone Meditation



                               Soul of man!
                               You live in the limbs
Which bear you through the world of space
Into the spirit-ocean-being.
Practice spirit-remembering
In soul deep
Where in the hand
Of world-creator-being
Your own I
In God’s I 
Is begotten;
And you will truly live
In human-cosmic-being.

For the Spirit of the Father on High
Reigns in the deep of the world fathering being:
Ye Spirits of Strength!
(Seraphim, Cherubim and Thrones)
Let from on high sound forth,
What in the deep resounds;
Pronouncing:
Out of the Godhead mankind is born.
(Ex Deo nascimur)
That is heard by the spirits in East, West, North, South:
May human beings hear it.
     
 Soul of Man!
You live in the heart-lung-beat,
Which guides you through the rhythms of time
Into your soul feeling essence.
Practice Spirit-contemplation
In soul balance
Where the surging
World-becoming-deeds
Unite
Your own I
With the Cosmic I;
And you will truly feel
In human-soul-activity.
                                         
For the will of Christ prevails in the round
Soul-giving-mercy:
Ye Spirits of Light
(Kyriotetes, Dynamis, Exusia)
Let from the East be fired up
What through the West is formed,
Pronouncing:
In Christ life becomes death.*
(In Christo morimur.)
That is heard by the spirits in East, West, North, South:
May human beings hear it.


Soul of Man!
You live in the reposing head,
Which from eternal grounds
Releases cosmic thoughts to you:
Practice spirit-beholding
In quietude of thought,
Where the eternal aims divine
Bestow
Cosmic-being-light
Upon your own I
For free willing;
And you will truly think,
In human-spirit-grounds.
For cosmic thoughts of the spirit prevail
In cosmic being beseeching light;
Ye Spirits of Soul
(Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi)
Let from the deep be prayed for
What on High is heard;
Pronouncing:
In the cosmic thoughts of spirit the soul awakens
(Per Spiritum Sanctum reviviscimus),
That is heard by the spirits in East, West, North, South:
May human beings hear it.

At the turning-point of time
Cosmic-spirit-light entered
Into the earthly being-stream;
Night darkness
Had held its sway;
Clear daylight
Shone forth in human souls;
Light
That warms
The poor shepherds’ hearts;
Light
That enlightens
The wise kings’ heads.
Divine light,
Christ-sun
Warm 
Our hearts,
Illumine
Our heads;
That good may become
What from our heart
We want to found,
And from our head
To lead purposefully.



* Most translations read here: “In Christ death becomes life”. Thanks to a suggestion by Nelson Willby, I have come around to the view that the opposite is right in the sense of the Latin “In Christo morimur”; we die in Christ, setting the stage for the resurrection in the Holy Spirit.

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