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

GA 265a — 3 December 1911, Nuremberg

The Three Revelations and the Three “Husks” of Man

Notes by Alice Kinkel Second Degree

Our human race will miss something essential if it stays away from our message; the consequences of this will only become apparent later. Those souls who accept our message will face a very specific future. All souls that are on earth today have not had consciousness of self for very long. The dream that one dreams, one has a son and he is buried alive, is typical.

The first Christian belief was the connection with the dead. The altars of the Christians were made in the shape of a coffin. For all souls there will come a time when they will look back on past times and lives. But for those who know nothing of reincarnation, this looking back will be agonizing. All souls will have to rely on themselves, but for those who have not taken up theosophy, this will be associated with a feeling of loneliness. It is intellectualism that dominates our time.

In our time of the fifth epoch, the astral body is the shell of belief, which causes a reflex, a reflection on our I-soul.

In the sixth period, the love character of the ether body will have to express itself in the I.

In the seventh period, the character of hope connected with the physical body will be reflected in the I.

The power of belief of the astral body seems to be entering the soul in our time. Morality and intellectuality are facing each other; ethics and morals are to purify intellectuality.