# Self-Knowledge and God-Knowledge II

## GA 90b — 20 August 1905, Berlin

### XIV. Subjective — Objective Dharma In Karma

That which awakens on a plane merely subjectively can work on that plane, but not perceive. Mineral has awakened – subjectively on the physical plane.

What awakens subjectively and objectively on a plane can act and perceive on that plane.

A person has awakened:

> on the physical plane – subjectively and objectively  
> on the astral plane – subjectively  
> on the mental plane – subjectively


The physical plane is only there for the human being because he has awakened subjectively and objectively on it.

If he awakens objectively on the astral plane, then the whole world of desires will have an objective existence, as the whole physical world has now.

If he awakens objectively on the mental plane, then everything that is now merely the world of thoughts will be an objective world of its own.

Man's evolution consists of a succession of successively objective worlds.

> 1. Physical world objective: physical existence  
> 2. Astral world objective: Kamaloka existence  
> 3. Mental world objective: Devachan existence


> Earth: physical, astral, manas  
> Devachan: mental, budhi, atma

Development consists in the continuous transformation of the subjective into the objective or of the law into reality. Dharma in karma.

> The function is realized in form.  
> The hand is the result of work.  
> The eye is the result of light.
> Function is existence in action conceived.  
> Development in progress is called: Dharma  
> Gets through its activity from its environment the organs for its future.


Karma is the Dharma crucified in matter.

Karma is the manifest Dharma and must work because it carries the unmanifest part of Dharma locked within itself.

Dharma is at the same time the transcendence of being.

Self-knowledge means to recognize the level of one's being in the right sense; then self-knowledge serves the Dharma.

Self-knowledge is the realization of the degree of imperfection of each individual.

Following the law in the sense of true self-knowledge is Dharma.


Dharma takes on matter and is active in matter.

> Father: the being-beyond  
> Mother: the evolving being  
> Son: that which comes into being through the power of being-beyond.

Dharma is the creative principle, it is the continuous intervention of being in existence. Karma is the dharma crucified in matter. As long as karma has not become dharma, it must incite action.

Ideal: the state of an entity that has revealed all its dharma and thus burned its karma.

Nirvana. Nirvana is the nothingness of karma because all dharma has been revealed.