Notes from Mathilde Scholl 1904–1906

GA 91 — 22 September 1906

28. Numbers and Revelation II

We have seen how the pentagram - the five-part expression of all the higher powers in man - forms the final stone of revelation and half of perfection. Man had to add the other half to the seven forces given to him. It was in the physical world that this five-part revelation, the half of perfection, first came to expression. In the physical world, the man-made also had to seek the complement that could make him whole. Before man became physical, and before the world became physically condensed, the revelation had not yet descended to the deepest point, life could still form new beings out of itself, unfold itself. But in the physical world, where the own, separate forms emerged, the creative power itself, the reproductive power, was halved. In the development the forces had been unfolded symmetrically before by the spirally descending life currents again and again - as with the plants the forces arrange themselves symmetrically around the spirally running development line. At last, however, the development reached a point which before had unfolded everything out of itself, unfolded itself, bisected itself - there was the end point of the revelation of the life force. Now it had to complete itself in its two halves - what before worked into each other as the two poles, as force and substance, as positive and negative pole, that stepped apart in the physical world into all positive and negative forces, in the division of the sexes - in the attraction and repulsion of the physical substance, in the elective affinity of the chemical elements, in all opposites, in light and darkness, in the objective confrontation of the forms of the whole physical creation.

So the life - the self - had made a way down, by revealing itself through the number, which came out of the unity: the 3, the 1, the 4, the 1, the 5. But all these numbers A D % were still reflections of the unity for last, by splitting into the two halves of the life force, which came out in all opposites of the world, but came out most in light and darkness. Only when the physical forms emerged, light and darkness came into being. Light and darkness are the opposites conditioned by the formation of the /word illegible] physical world. Thus we find in the physical the opposites of light and darkness, of positive and negative, of male and female and so on. And the reflection of this bisection of the life force expressed in the physical is the separation of the soul forces into good and evil. These, too, are but two poles of the same force; through the bisection of the life-force duality has appeared in the world for the first time as the grossest antithesis of the One; duality was not there before, it is the characteristic of the deepest point of revelation.

Evolution proceeds as the bisected forces unite and merge, complementing each other to become a greater force. In order for new life to continue to emerge, the positive and negative forces, revealed force - spirit - and dormant force - substance -, male and female force had to unite. What thus drives the forces to unification is the force of attraction between the bisected forces, what physically is called /word illegible] Warmth, chemically as changing elective affinity, psychically as love and sympathy.

For further development it was necessary that this union of the bisected forces took place. So it has been first of all the union of the male and the female forces a necessity for the further development.

After man had reached the lowest stage in development, then he had to enter the ascending arc of development. Everything, what he had received half from the Godhead, he had to complete. The first physically forming man was the man, the male form was the intentions of the physical revelation.

Previously, before man became physical, the male and female forces were united in his life force; now this one life force unfolded; the female force remained in the life body itself, the male force united with the physical body. The original man was the Adam Kadmon, who possessed the whole life force; this was bisected in the middle of the Lemurian race, and man and woman were created. The creation of Eve signifies this bisection of man.

Now, as an expression of the descent of life into physical creation, man is at first the more perfect. But he represents only half of the perfection. For the development of this perfection, man must find his complement in physical form and in vitality through woman; and for soul perfection, he must find his complement in his own yet unrevealed higher powers.

The masculine is the symbol of the present, the feminine is symbol of man's past and future. It is that from which man has emerged: the symbol of all possibility of revelation and the symbol of the future not yet revealed. The formed form is the masculine; the forming life is the feminine. During the deepest descent of life, when it sacrificed one half of its power for the shaping out of the mineral world of form, wherein life took a back seat to form, in the time of physical and spiritual materialism, of the greatest condensation, the power of form, the masculine, had to be predominant, to become the ruler of the world.

Therefore, at the same time, the spiritual force in man, the mind, developing with the deepest physical elaboration, came to be most strongly expressed together with Kama,

Now, as by reunion of the bisected life-force the physical progress is conditioned, so by the union of the male intellect with the female higher life-force, Budhi, the progress of mental development is conditioned. That is why the feminine is the symbol of all progress of mankind, of the future, because in it lie dormant the possibilities of development of man. The spirit of man has descended to the physical condensation in order to realize that he is a part of the Divinity, but that he can also reach perfection only in the completion by the Divine. In the bisection of the physical /gap in elaboration]

Question: what is the relation of the heart to the twelve signs of the zodiac and to the twelve stations? Is the heart the sun, connected with the earth - under the influence of the seven planets (four physical heart chambers, three astral) and under the influence of the twelve zodiacal signs? Do atom, heart, earth correspond in terms of outflow and inflow, organization and so on?