# The History of the Esoteric School 1904–1914, Volume Two

## GA 265 — Hildesheim

### The World Must be Built; It Must be Built by People

*Handwritten note in notebook, archive number 98, no dates given, presumably for Kristiania (Oslo), December 1921.*

Brothers of the past

Your creativity will become our wisdom. We

we want the circular roundness and the

straightness of your royal art;

your work done shall be

strength to our soul, be strength to our

Brothers of the present  
As you are wiser than us, let  
your wisdom flow into our  
souls, that we may become members  
of your divine thoughts.

Brothers of the future  
If you carry the plan of the building in your  
will, let your strength flow into our members,  
so that  
we may become the body of the great souls.

*M.E.*

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Master of the Past:

My mind's eye beholds

My soul's sense strives

To build with you the human-world structure.

Master of the present:  
In willing devotion  
Hear my soul's ear  
Your creative word  
So that not forever lost  
Man from the world's goal  
And Lucifer must perish.

Apprentice of the world and of life  
We lose ourselves.

Comrade of men  
Find the other.

Master of himself.

The wavering column of light  
The firm column of darkness.