from being human - spring-summer 2024

by Anthroposophical Society in America

news for members & friends Memoriam for Gail Biesantz-Faude

The images on these pages depict Karl Koenig’s ‘Cross of Light’, which is formed by the Calendar of the Soul verses for weeks 5 and 48, and 22 and 31.

The fifth cross was called by Karl Koenig the ‘Cross of Light’. Two of these verses begin with the words, “The Light”, and two of them with the words, “In the Light”, or “Within the Light”, depending on the translation.

It is a bit like the Curative Meditation, which many of you know, the very special meditation Rudolf Steiner gave for Curative Education towards the end of the lectures he gave in 1924. He gave this symbol of the Sun, the circle with the point, and described how one can use this meditation for the evening and the morning, going into the night and going into daytime. It is a celebration of the Sun at nighttime and in the daytime, with the two moods, “In me is God”, and “I am in God”.

I experience that it is very similar to the feeling of the verses of the fifth cross, “I am in the Light”, and “The Light is in me”. Twice we go through this experience with the correspondences with these four verses.

Perhaps we are also reminded of the Light in the Foundation Stone meditation, the very special part that is almost like a fifth part of the Foundation Stone meditation, when we hear this prayer, “Light Divine, Christ Sun”, and we realize that the Light, also the Light in these verses, is the Light of the Sun, the Divine Light.

When Karl Koenig drew the Metamorphoses of the Cross, he used for the fifth cross the symbol of the Spirit Sun, the Celtic cross, the Sun cross. So we see in these four verses how we go through a series of experiences with the Light.”