a prayer for anthroposophy
As the school year begins, we would like to offer a blessing for all those in contact with the lineage of anthroposphy, whatever your relationship to it may be.
Sending you community and strength,
Alma Partners
a prayer for anthroposophy
- written by Aiyana Masla
With respect for the wisdom of its ancestors. With reverence for the kindness and for the care of all those who have dedicated their work to this lineage, particularly in the service of children and our future generations. With appreciation for anthroposophy’s wisdom and for its questions. With gratitude for the teaching that the inherent wisdom of human beings is nurtured by a lifelong commitment to spiritual self-reflection and development. For the evolution and generosity that is possible in cultivating right relationship with this earth and with all beings. Thank you.
Thank you for the opportunity to engage and wrestle with a deep, expansive lineage. May we find courage to remember that anthroposophy is something we are meant to be wrestling with. May we find strength as we strive to both honor the lineage and to challenge it. Thank you for the opportunity to conjure fresh energy and breathe present time perspective into this tradition. Thank you for the opportunity to recover and protect the relevant magic that is contained in anthroposophy as we heal, imagine and transform its future. May we honor the sparks of wisdom contained in its depths.
May anthroposophy become an instrument, a tool, a guiding vehicle for much needed healing, reconciliation, repair, and restoration on this planet. May anthroposophy bring about support, nourishment for all who come into contact with it: teachers, staff and administrators, students, their families, and surrounding communities. May the practice of cultivating balance of mind, body and spirit deepen and extend to include and honor equity, diversity, justice, and the true meaning of the word inclusion. May all beings who wish to engage with and benefit from anthroposophy’s guidance and gifts find grace and welcoming to do so. May any harm it has caused end today.
May the tenets of searching for balance, valuing imagination, and honing right relationship with nature carry human beings into this next era, equipped with tools and resource for the chaos, violence, quickening, imbalance, and climate emergency we are facing. May anthrophosophy’s capacity for depth, for expansion, for spiritual perspective, for honoring the sacred possibility in all things and all beings uplift and extend to include a diversity of children, families, teachers, administrators, people, community - that we may infuse their beautiful gifts, unique worldviews and different value systems into informing the shape of a thriving community, rich and potent with possibility.
May we work with this lineage by taking responsibility for any harm caused, that we can move forward informed by the treasures contained within it.
May the children of the future be seen and affirmed for who they are. May the young ones know they are protected and connected to the earth, that they are safe and that they belong to the earth. May those guiding them find grace and support from anthroposophy as we heal and evolve on this earth, as human beings, in relationship with each other. As anthroposophy embraces its regard for inward freedom, may it approach the expansive possibility of what that entails.
May the children and teachers, may the community, honor the children as the leaders they are. May anthroposophy joyously steward their growth in a way that allows for the full expression of each of them. May the little ones give us strength, clarity, courage, insight and a sense of connection to what is greater as we heal.
May this effort of moving anthroposophy into its next iteration be work in which all people and our ecosystem can come into alignment; with spiritual integrity and perspective, with purpose and possibility, with the healing that is already written within.
May it be so.
