Glory be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough;
And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim.
All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change:
Praise Him.
—Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Pied Beauty”
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Greetings on this glorious Sunday morning (though I type this on a Friday evening, and you may be reading this on a Monday afternoon, I am thinking ahead, and truly believe, that Sunday will be glorious; and you may be thinking back, and remember it being so)!
May the day and the week ahead hold blessings for us all and all those we know.
Do keep in touch,
John-Scott
Featured Works by Mieke Mosmuller
Mieke Mosmuller is a physician, writer, and philosopher. She studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and practiced as a medical doctor for more than twenty-five years. Working with illness and death raised questions in her about the nature of life. Since 1994, she has been writing about the spiritualization of intelligence and on other themes related to Rudolf Steiner and anthroposophy.
From the Collected Works of Rudolf Steiner
On Philosophy, History, and Literature
Lectures at the Worker Education School and the Independent College,
Berlin, 1901–1905
Author’s summary and summaries of 34 lectures, 1901–1905;
with reports on Rudolf Steiner’s activity in the
“Giordano Bruno Association,” 1902 (CW 51)
READ MORE | CONTENTS | INTRODUCTION
Materialism has become a worldview. It has become a gospel, an integrating aspect of our age. The great masses stand on a purely materialistic basis and they do not want to accept any other worldview. True for them is only what natural science allows one to call real. . . .
Those who stand on a higher standpoint can understand a lower one, and those on a lower one cannot understand the higher one. It is so that he who stands on the idealistic standpoint is quite ready to recognize in a certain way the materialistic one. . .
Schiller was a believer in the ideal. . . .
That his ideal lived in him in this way is an aspect of his greatness; therefore, we do not ask, “Can Schiller be something to us today?” On the contrary, he must become something to us again, for we have forgotten how to understand that which goes beyond the purely material. Only then will we understand again an art that seeks to reveal the secrets of existence.
—Rudolf Steiner, from the lecture, “What Can the Present Time Learn from Schiller?”
