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

GA 265a — 10 February 1913, Berlin

The Elements and their Entities

Berlin, February 10, 1913

Notes by Alice Kinkel Fourth Degree

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The human being is connected to the self in thirty-three ways. We have to overcome this self through our I. This self is anchored in the human body in the 33 currents in the spinal cord.

The shearer sees how currents emanate from the etheric and astral bodies, which can then be expressed in the movements of the limbs, which are half held back in the speech organs, in the larynx, where the sound is formed, and then held rigidly in the human head, brain and skull, brain lobes. The brain, the symbols for it in the lodge...

Starting with the left hand: I - an outward striving. The sound I - direct the right eye into the indefinite.

Stretching = A - both eyes into infinity.

Embrace = O - Look firmly at a specific point. Cross = E - Place your right hand over your left hand, and your feet in the same way, crossing your right foot over your left - just as the optic nerves are crossed in the human head.

Cupped hand = AO - Bend the body in a semicircle. Fist or clench = U

You should not carry out the movements, but inhibit the movement, press the limbs firmly against the body, but feel the same as if you were carrying out the movements.

We are the lost word of creation. The holy word is to be used only in the sign.

Where are we? In the sign of four.

Name the four: earth, water, air, fire.

The Cassiazweig has been discussed.

You are all half human; you are to develop the other half that belongs to you through the exercises that have been given to you, gradually. That is the task.

The [Pillars of] Hercules.

The task is this: for six to eight to ten weeks or more of the year, completely switch off the ego in words and thoughts. Only when you have accomplished this will you understand all of this.

Be The following also belongs to the explanations about the four:

The four can also be understood in terms of the four sentences that are always spoken in the lodge and that we know: 1913

Learn silence and you will have power.

Give up power and you will have will. Give up will and you will have feeling. Give up feeling and you will have knowledge.

The four is complemented to the seven: salt, sulfur, mercury.

Now the holy word is broken down again into the four;

earth, water, air, fire

gnomes, sylphs, salamanders

One column is the sun, the other the moon; both make up the earth.