The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two
GA 265
Notes for the Fourth Degree
The realities of the macrocosm are the consonants of various feelings1
The enclosing, which is open to one side: b
One must learn to feel how the different vowels that are in the human being enclose themselves in the external. - Learning to feel the vocalization of one's own inner self and adapting it in various ways to the outer world. Sun i | Moon a ᐯ Venus e 
Mercury o 
Mars u Faust Jupiter ö ( Saturn ü sharp placement of the hands
Vowels
The vowels provide everything we need to know about human beings. They provide the inner key to the macrocosm.
The giving - bestowing - warming
The receiving - reflecting 
The resting, suffering, melancholic 
The powerful, leading, guiding 
The passionate, conquering, aggressive 
The loving, mild, tender 
The mediating, conciliatory 
i - striving for the divinity
ei - holy fear of the deity
a - sublimity of the deity
ä - somewhat less sublime
o - embracing the deity
ö - fear of embracing
Transcript of the opening ceremony for the fourth degree2
Text according to Rudolf Steiner's original manuscript;
from “Grand Master: Give me the sign”
according to the original manuscript by Marie Steiner.
Note sheet archive number 6970/71
IV. Degree
Question: How is this high chapter prepared? 
Answer: By seeing that all doors are carefully closed and that neither seculars nor apprentices, journeymen nor Johannite masters are present.
Order: This is to be carried out.
Michael: With the most respectful greeting, I bring word that the chapter is fully covered.
Grand Master: As everything is ready, the chapter is opened.
Dialogue
Grand Master: Points with his sword in the four directions
Michael: The Grand Master has opened the chapter by invoking the 4.
Grand Master: Write the 4
Grand Master: Give me the sign.
Michael: (Right thumb on forehead, right hand up, face towards the sky)
Grand Master: Give me the holy word.
Michael: Adonai
Grand Master: Give me the password.
Michael: Cavaret
Grand Master: What do you understand as a Knight of the High 4th Degree?
Michael: To strip the cassia branch.
Grand Master:What does this mean?
Michael: To dissolve the coarse matter into the finest parts.
Grand Master: What is the one column to you now?
Michael: The sun.
Grand Master: What is the other column to you?
Michael: The moon.
Grand Master: Why is this?
Michael: Because the sun and moon together form the Cassia branch, i.e. they divide the fine matter into coarse matter.
Grand Master: What is your salvation now?
Michael: To obey the high masters of pre-humanity.
Grand Master: What are you therefore?
Michael: Frater latae observatiae.