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

GA 265a — 1 March 1913, The Hague

The Great Silence

Notes by Amalie Künstler

Man was silent in the beginning of time. He could not speak to the outside world. But within him, the sound of the harmonies of the spheres resonated. The world word resounded within him. Then came what is described in the Bible as the legend of temptation. His organs opened to the outside world. He began to speak outwards. But every sound he let out into the world caused the sound of the holy word of the world to die within him.

The larynx and ear of man have arisen from these dying forces in relation to the hearing of the primal word – they have arisen from the forces of death. Every spoken word that breaks the great silence is a loss of the sacred creative word. Through the being that is present as Lucifer in the story of temptation, language is given to us and also the effect of language.

The human face should have taken on a different appearance according to the plan of the Elohim. Man also owes the form that the human face took on after the temptation to Lucifer. By connecting the ear and larynx through the sign, we draw the form that the human face should have taken on according to the plan of the Elohim.

Man rose from his horizontal position, in which he once floated in the etheric water of the world, to a vertical position, and YES KIN resounded, his first word. By pronouncing it, it should place us in the force field that we ourselves are to create, so that the sacred creative word can resound in us again. From below we then speak it up. And from above, the power of the holy world word descends into this creative word resounding in man.