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

GA 265a — 24 April 1912

The Three Journeymen

Notes from Nelly von Lichtenberg, Third Degree

We have the three companions within us. We should imagine that we were involved in this action. The resulting feeling of guilt is the right feeling, which enables us to understand the symbolism of this degree in a truly occult way.

We should imagine the first companion as being in our head, then let the sound

Jaobela

The second in the chest, then sound through with the words

Joabelo

The third in our body and limbs, then let it resonate:

Jaobelum.

We will then soon notice that forces are flowing out of us:
in the air above our heads as luciferic forces,
from the chest as Ahrimanic and Luciferic
and from the limbs into the earth as Ahrimanic forces.

One would then notice as a dark, fine echo from distant spaces the sacred word that is given to us for the time being for the lost creative word: (Mg. b. j.)