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

GA 265a — 23 October 1923, Dornach

Esoteric Hour for the “Wachsmuth-Lerchenfeld Group” II

First, the Indian mantram was given for the first time, the translation for the first time. After this Indian mantram, the regular invocation was made:

"Brothers of the past: Your work will become our
wisdom, we take the perimeter and the
plumb line of the height from your hands; your
work done by you shall be strength to our souls, strength to our hands. Brothers of the present: if you are wiser than
we, let your wisdom shine in our
souls, so that we may become revealers
of your thoughts of God. Brothers of the future: If you bear the plan of the world's construction
in your will, let your strength flow
into our limbs, so that we may
become the body for the great souls.

True esotericism is initially incomprehensible. As an example, imagine a living person who expresses absolutely no spiritual life on the outside. His spiritual life is directed entirely inwards, yet it is an intense inner life.

About the vowels: hierarchies are involved:

J A O Seraphim, Cherubim and partly Thrones are involved.
U Kyriotetes, Exusiai, Dynamis
E Archai, Archangeloi, Angeloi.

The whole together means the ancient-holy word of Yahweh instead of the ego-I-am. To create this word out of the hierarchies means an act. The execution of this act on earth: the butterfly meditation.

Catch the moth
Send it to icy heights
Where the world's dreams prevail.
It becomes a bird
Then you have done half the work
Halfway there.
Dip the bird
In the depths of the sea J A O U E
Where the will of the world works.
the bird drowns,
then you still have to do,
the bird's corpse
purifying in the fire to burn.
Then consume the ashes
and you are
the light in the darkness of the world.

The imagination of this butterfly meditation has an ethereal effect. Just a simple interpretation. Searching in the memory with the three and a half years following the butterfly meditation. The ethereal effect is connected with the fact that it causes one to occupy oneself with one's own will, and in the retrospective examination of one's own will, one can find a point in one's life where this will has had a very specific impulse for certain tasks. It is often the case that when searching for such moments of volition, the non-fulfillment of which has caused dissatisfaction, one comes to a point about three and a half years ago. (Prevention by external circumstances, for example, threefolding.)

Once this point has been reached, the task is to cultivate the content of this longing, not to try to carry out the deed, but to cultivate the content as much as possible, in the highest way. Then, three and a half years after the moment of realization, the opportunity to act will present itself again. And then it will be a matter of performing a selfless act that has nothing to do with the starting point seven years ago. This can also be a very inconspicuous act outwardly.

Description of the time, the situation, the abyss.

The present lectures and this hour are, in comparison to the prevailing fanaticism and the culmination of democracy outside, just the opposite; they signify the culmination of aristocracy and hierarchy. An enormous abyss that development must leap across in order to overcome these contradictions. Descriptions of this abyss, over which some leap courageously, others are dragged, others are torn. The whole is a heroic tragedy in the history of humanity.

Faltering Meditation
Invocation
Indian Mantram