Notes from Mathilde Scholl 1904–1906

GA 91 — 5 September 1906

14. Light on the Path II

Before the Masters, the voice can speak, but it must learn to wound.

As long as we still use the voice to say such things to our fellow human beings that hurt them, as long as our words are not yet full of gentleness and forbearance, but still resound with pride, self-importance , imperiousness or a thought of hate, a thought of discontent, we cannot raise our voice to those who can only accept the pure, selfless, forgiving and devoted word.

Every harsh, hurtful word, and every word that is filled with an ugly, discordant thought of selfishness, separates us from the masters. The masters cannot speak through us while this is the case. — And they only understand us when they can use us as an instrument to speak through us. They understand only their own language, their own sounds. Our voice can speak to the Masters only when we are so full of human love that every word is an expression of human love. Only then do our words become melody, music for humanity, because they bring only good to them. - Our words are a force through which we impress ourselves on our environment. Every word we speak leaves an impression on our environment. As long as our words do not contain love, they bring disharmony into our environment. That is why Paul says:

If I speak with human and angelic tongues but have not love, I am only a gong or a clanging cymbal.

I would only speak disharmonious words. It is love that makes the word harmonious, that makes it music. And:

Before the soul can stand before them, the blood of their hearts must moisten their feet.

Being able to stand means being grounded. - In the ordinary person, only the physical body stands on firm ground, but the soul must learn to stand just as firmly. It can only do so when the passion is at rest. Passion dwells in the heart's blood. The heart's blood must be purified through experience, through insight and compassion, sublimated like the blood of Christ. When this heart's blood wets the feet, that is, when it flows as purified blood in love for humanity, then the soul can stand before the masters. Then man's Kama, his own selfish passion, is transformed into selfless warmth, into love. Then the heart's blood no longer courses through his organism for his own interests, it no longer stirs, but flows freely outwards to help others, as a force in the Whole. Then the soul can stand before the masters, for then it is ready to be used as an instrument. Then the human being can stand and walk in his soul, then he no longer needs to depend on higher beings to guide his soul, on such beings who take him by the hand and lead him through the soul world. He can then look up to those who have guided him so far, look them in the eye because he has become their colleague. Passion binds the human being to the world of the senses. As long as he still lives in passion, he cannot raise himself spiritually to the level of the masters. He still crawls on the ground like an animal. The physical body is then upright, but the astral body, left to its own devices, still takes on an animal-like form. To stand means to be able to point freely upwards. The animal cannot do this, it is tied to the ground, its gaze turned downwards. Just as the human being can now physically turn his gaze upwards, he must also be able to do so spiritually. Then he becomes independent in the soul world, stands firm and can now become a messenger of the masters, who can only use as their messenger someone who can walk in the soul world themselves. That Peter first sank when walking on the sea, but that Christ then raised him up and he stood firm on the sea through His help, means that his soul had to be strengthened through Christ's sacrifice before he himself could become a messenger for humanity. The blood of Christ was shed for all people to make it possible for them to purify their souls to such an extent that they can stand before the masters.

Because Christ came into people as the I in the Lemurian time, people learned to stand in the physical. Because his blood flowed on the cross, they learn to stand in the soul.