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THE SEVEN-FOLD COLUMNS OF
THE FIRST GOETHEANUM
(Written in hexameter, by
Katherine Rudolph : The vowels are to be intoned in German
out of the wisdom of the concordances, as given by Rudolf
Steiner.)
There is a
sequence of
sound –
engraved in the
firstGoetheanum.
Hear, as the
intervals
ring, –
‘mankind will
inherit the
highest.’
Columns, that
carry and
hold –
metamorphosis,
meaning, and
structure;
Manifest
changes in
world -
evolution, from
Saturn to
Venus.
Flow and
develop the
seed – to
fruition,
forever in
motion!
DAS ES - IT – Saturn – Prime – U
– (German, as in ‘loom’)
Resting, as
seed in its
sounding – the
Prime
knows a
mystery
hidden
Deep in the
realm of the
source – like
Saturn, it
calls for
completion.
AN ES - ON IT- SUN – Second –
O
Yes, on the
path it
awakens –
develops from
primary
grounding.
Just as the
root and the
seedling –
experience
growth, bound in
wonder!
So out of
oneness
emerges - the
second, the
Sun’s evolution;
Freely, it
rings out the
Quest – in its
quickening
pulse’s
vibration.
IN ES – IN IT – Moon – Third –
AH
Widening
more into
movement – it
reaches
the Third’s
inner
swinging.
Leaf after
leaf lives in
nature – the
seedling is
gaining
effulgence.
Moon-like is
intimate
selfhood - in
harmony
with its own
feeling;
ICH – I – Mars – Fourth – OE –
(German, as in ‘hurt’)
Venturing
in it grows
smaller – and
hardens to
dwarf-like
proportions.
Finally
touching
itself – does the
Fourth pull its
forces
together,
As it turns
inside
out, – to
orient
and to
refashion.
Mars-like, its
testing of
strength, – for the
trial that is
bound to be
coming.
Closed, as a
bud, yet it
gathers -
momentum to
jump up much
higher!
VOM ICH – FROM THE I – Mercury –
Fifth - E – (German, as in ‘make’)
Taking the
dare it
ascends – to
link up the
past to the
future
Human,
evolve in the
Fifth –
confront, face to
face, new
surroundings.
Present age of
mankind! – ‘Now
hearken and
heal all the
bloodshed;
Warfare and
strife must be
ended –for
here in the
earth evolution
Peace must
prevail at the
last – for
such is the
way of
progression’
Mercury’s
dialogue
breathes – it
exhales, heady
fragrances
forming.
AUS MIR – Out of My Selfhood –
Jupiter – Sixth - IU - (German, as in
‘hue’)
Blossoming
into the
Sixth – it
longs, in
light-ether
abounding,
Seeking the
fire of
fruition – and
keening to
know heaven’s
answer,
Jupiter’s
wisdom will
give – all it
has for the
deed of
becoming.
ICH IN ES – I WITHIN IT – Venus –
Seventh - EE – (German, as in ‘seed’)
‘Burn in the
fire of the
spirit’ – sounds
Venus, ‘for
love is
prevailing!
Sacrifice
now to the
Septime – and
slough off the
dross for the
essence.’
New are the
seeds, a new
future, –
transforming the
human
entirely!
Mood
of the small Cupola – Vulcan – Octave - U – (German, as in
‘loom’)
Enter now
into the
Realm – the small
Cupola
rings with the
Octave.
Hearken and
utter the
Word. -
Create in the
space that’s
provided
Chronicles
ringing in
sound – are
recorded in
colour and
measure.
Vulcan will
crown the
creation – for the
Octave
transcends to the
Godhead.
(See:Das
Farbenwort,Hilde Raske, Freies
Geistesleben,Stuttgart,1983, (259-265).
© Copyright 2010 Katherine Rudolph Exploring
The Word in Colour and Speech
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