Lessons for the Participants of Cognitive-Cultic Work 1906–1924

GA 265a — 24 June 1910

What Leads Humankind Upwards

Notes from the estate of Mathilde Scholl Second degree

Chain of two degrees – first part – two – last, until realization – all – then two explanations. G – Genesis. – All earthly things are symbols of spiritual things. Watch – watchmaker – view the created world as such, that everything is the expression of spiritual forces. Example: Halley's Comet. Ancient lunar forces and lunar substances. - Materialistic impact in the 18th and 19th centuries and now strongest. - Decide whether to take up these forces or what leads humanity upwards. Those who work for the latter have brought Theosophy into our time.

Signs: [hand on heart] –

Physical heart. Etheric heart (corresponding to fire in the cosmos). Astral heart (ten-petalled lotus flower). Initial – must be developed again at a higher level (cosmically, the sun). Heart-I (the lion in the zodiac)

Forces that flow through the human being IAl When he holds on to them [KIN]

When he consciously reflects them back 2 columns

The blood without the clinging pink - through [KIN] red - the returned blue blood B.

Cognition is a process of destruction. The penetration of impressions into the astral and etheric body, and then into the physical body, causes destruction there, and then they are sent back into the astral body. Only this reflection, via this detour, is knowledge. It is based on destruction.

Absorbing light is A.
seeing objects consciously is B.
Inhaling is I.
Exhaling is B.
Practice this with caution. —

Sch. - Shoot into the number. [So] numerous, as the grains of the ear of corn. The human ego at first not an individual. Now still a people's assembly under suggestion or hypnosis - the egos mingle chaotically. I am still little individualized. Before that, all egos and totality - through descending into the physical bodies, individualization occurred.

End. 1/ chain to 2 — 2 / then complete chain. At “cognition”: [thumb at a right angle to the hand]

2 and 2 and word alternating B | — |a| — |B — |a —