I am glad daylong for the gift of song,
For time and change and sorrow;
For the sunset wings and the world-end things
Which hang on the edge of to-morrow.
I am glad for my heart whose gates apart
Are the entrance-place of wonders,
Where dreams come in from the rush and din
Like sheep from the rains and thunders.
—William Stanley Braithwaite, “Rhapsody”
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From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
Inner Reading and Inner Hearing
& How to Acheive Existence in the World of Ideas
2 lecture courses & 2 Christmas lectures, Dornach, Oct. 3–7 & Dec. 12–20, 1914; Dornach, Dec. 26 and Basel, Dec. 27, 1914 (CW 156)
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. . . just as the powers of imagination are always within us, the powers of transforming ourselves are always within us. . . And in order to possess them consciously, we must develop them in the described way. In every moment we are not only ourselves, but also every other being; only we don't develop ourselves to expand our consciousness as far as the other being. Why is that so? This will become clear when we consider one of the situations in life in which people transform themselves into another being on the ordinary physical plane.
It does happen on the physical plane that we use the powers that are otherwise powers of transformation. We use that power, without knowing anything about it, every time we do our fellow human beings the injustice of making our own will lord over theirs in an unjustified way. It begins already when we tell lies to others. Through this we attach a wrong to them. One wins a certain power over them, because the lies continue to work within them.
The same is also true when we do something bad. The powers with which we do something bad are in fact the powers of transformation, only applied in the wrong place. Everything bad in the world is the unlawful application of these powers of transformation. We can make deep insights into the secret of existence when we know where the injustice, evil, crime, and destruction that happen in the world come from. They happen when one applies the best, most holy powers that exist, the powers of transformation, in a wrong way. There would be no evil in the world if there were no transformative powers. . . evil is a wrong application of powers that, used in the proper place, would lead to the highest good. A certain mood is present in our soul when we know it contains something that on the one hand can transform itself into all people and beings, and on the other hand can transform itself into egotism. We must be able to hold this mood up to the cosmos if we wish to hear in a spiritual sense.
—Rudolf Steiner, “The Vowels and Consonants of the Spiritual World,” lecture of October 5, 1914, in Inner Reading and Inner Hearing (CW 156)