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

GA 265a

Legend (different version)

Notes from an unknown person

In the beginning of the world, one of the Elohim or light spirits descended and married Eve, the Earth Mother, and from this union of the Elohim with Eve, Cain was born. And again one of the Elohim descended and created Adam. And he married Eve, and from this union came Abel, the first human being to come into being through sexual union; for Cain was born of Eve's irradiation by the Eloah; thus, in a purely spiritual way. Through this descent into matter, Cain, the son of God, had lost the memory of the spiritual world from which he came, and he had to work out the abilities to get back into it again through his own strength from below. Abel, on the other hand, received spiritual wisdom through abnormal states of consciousness without any effort on his part, in a half-asleep consciousness.

This is indicated in the Bible, where it says: Cain was a farmer, Abel a shepherd. And two lines arose from which the human race descended, the Cain line, that is, all those who who have to work their way up from below through their own strength and effort; and the Abel or Abel-Seth line - from Seth, the replacement son whom Jehovah gave to Adam and Eve for the slain Abel - who receive their wisdom from the spiritual worlds themselves in abnormal states of consciousness.

From Cain came Lamech, the progenitor of Noah; he came from Jubal. The fiddlers and pipers come from him. And he came from Tubal-Cain. He was a master in ore and iron works. Furthermore, Hiram Abiff or Adoniram, the great builder of the Temple of Solomon, came from him.

From the Seth-Abel current comes Solomon, the wise King Solomon, who received his wisdom from the higher inspirations. He was able to conceive the plan for the construction of the temple, but he could not execute it or bring it about by his own efforts. For that he needed Hiram Abiff from the Cains bloodline. Solomon wanted to build the temple in such a way that everyone inside should express a piece of human development. An image of this temple is our Masonic temple. The two pillars represent, for example, the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, through which humanity moved from the West to the East. Hiram Abiff built this temple.

(See continuation of the first version)

The brazen sea represents pure, unclouded human nature. The three treacherous companions are doubt, superstition, and the illusion of the personal self. Through descent into earthly incarnation, man came to doubt his spiritual nature, to entertain false ideas. This is superstition, for example, the idea that he is a single being, not part of the great whole, the illusion of the personal self. These three treacherous companions destroy the originally pure human nature. The fire of passions springs from this.