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

GA 265a — 5 October 1913, Oslo

The Seven Words

Notes by Alice Kinkel Second Degree

These seven words should work like warmth and light in us. We should meditate on them individually, as if removed from the world. In order to get ahead, a person must truly believe that the abilities within him go beyond what he currently is. Man is capable of more than he can do today; he will develop to achieve his goal.

We can all have visions in the first third of our lives; and we don't have them because our desires are so great that they completely permeate the flesh.

Dreams are significant in the last third of our lives; we do not have them because our earlier desires have given us a body that scares away such dreams.

To have visions means: to see a face in full daylight, but it must remain and become a world, so to speak, that is, it must fill the space.

Dreams are experiences at night and recede into the past, that is, they appear in time.

To have visions is a blessing. Dreams should be accepted with humility and one should say to oneself: You are a fool, but what the dream wants to be is wise. We have remained foolish, but divine wisdom wants to reveal itself to us.

Everyone can see themselves progressing if they repeatedly study the material provided for each degree with fervour.

We should be able to feel the signs, the grip and the word, that is to say, we should learn to feel the currents of the etheric body in these means that are given to us.

The meditations shall penetrate deep into our souls: “By day I experience (see) the revelations of God around me. By night I rest in the bosom of the Godhead.