Second Lecture

The ancient Finns, the population of old Finland, said: We live here, but we feel something like three mighty beings that are not beings of the physical plane, that are nature beings. They reveal themselves from the west, they are three parts, as it were, organs of a great being that has its body over there, but it extends its feelers towards us here: Wäinämöinen, Ilmarinen, Lemminkäinen. A mighty sea creature is spreading out from west to east, stretching out its feel-horns and endowing this tribe with that which is the three-part soul.