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

GA 265a — 16 December 1910, Berlin

Maya

Notes from the estate of Elisabeth Vreede

Maya = Maha - a - ya = the great non-being. “Ya” actually means “strength of mind”, as in “Jachin”. Our body is Maya; anyone who wants to explore it to get to know the abilities of the human being will not achieve the same goal as someone who would examine the telegraph apparatus from an electrical engineering point of view in order to understand the messages that are sent with it.

After the fall of Troy, news was transmitted from mountain to mountain from Asia Minor to Greece using fire signals. Today we would do it with the telegraph. The result is the same. Just as there is no connection between such a message and the material used, there is no connection between the human spirit and its body. They have nothing to do with each other; the body is only conditioned by the conditions of the earth; on other planets one thinks and feels with completely different forms.

It is absolutely necessary that man think aright, for thinking influences not only ourselves, but when men think wrong mental images, then, as in the drama of the Rose-Cross, “gods must break worlds” to balance the result.