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George Steel's Vox Vocal Ensemble Gives the World Premiere of 'You Must Feel With Certainty' at the Guggenheim Museum, commissioned in honor of its 'Hilma Af Klint: Paintings for the Future' exhibit. December 17, 2018. SATB + percussion. Text by Hilma af Klint:

You Must Feel with Certainty
(September 16, 1903)

Beloved: you must dare.

You are bewildered
by what we have told you;
what we are trying to explain
is bewildering.

How often we’ve heard
you say everything’s futile,
that nothing comes
from all of your labors.

Yet gradually
the steadily growing roots
feed an ever stronger plant.

This is the secret growing.
Your endeavors sprout
in all directions.
(the secret growing)
This is a sign of life.
Like amorphous buds
your endeavors sprout
in all directions;
gradually the growing roots
feed an ever stronger plant.

You know this is so:
You have to feel
that even the smallest effort
leaves a trace inside you.
Gradually the growing roots
feed an ever stronger plant
which will one day explode
into leaves and flowers.

You must dare to build
on this knowledge.
You must feel with certainty.
You must not tire in your efforts.
You must perceive this with vividness.
You must dare to build on this knowledge.

Invisible hands tend this green Earth;
goodness is shaped, protected.
Every budding sprout of goodness
is tended, shaped, protected
by invisible power.

Beloved: you must feel.

When the time comes,
your eyes will open,
you’ll see the plant
that grew in secrecy.

Your pure intentions,
noble endeavors grown
in secrecy.

Accept our account
as a greeting from us
so that you shall never tire
when all seems lost.

Beloved: you mustn’t tire
when all seems lost.
(even the smallest effort…)