Why do we concern ourselves so intensively with the Calendar of the Soul? It accompanies us through the changing of the seasons and the Christian festival year. Through it, we gain access to eternity and receive impulses to imprint ourselves upon eternity. Living with these sayings leads to empathy with the course of the year. Nature and the human being spring from the same source. The soul experiences of human beings belong to the whole of creation. Nature is longingly awaiting attention from the human soul.
Calendar of the Soul - Verse 12 - St Johns Mood
The radiant beauty of the world
Compels my inmost soul to free
The God-given powers of my nature;
That they may soar into the cosmos,
To take wing from my Self,
And trustingly unite my Self
With cosmic light and cosmic warmth
Gazing into the Earth’s beauty releases forces in us that enable us to feel a part of the cosmos, part of its beauty. We long to breathe in, to absorb this beauty. And we feel we’re not alone— we are indeed a part of this beauty! Gratitude for the Earth’s new growth and blossom-beauty, and for the high, blue sunlit skies fills the soul! We want to lose all that is small in us and soar into the beauty of the cosmos! We can feel it as a holy experience. We can feel the world’s light and warmth in our soul, and filled with love, affirm that the God who created all this beauty and life created you too, and is within you, as your true “I”.
It is possible for us to reach out beyond ourselves at St. John’s Tide. The summer solstice, with Earth’s great out breathing, was always seen as a uniting of the Earth Soul with its Spirit in the periphery of the great Sun.
