Lecture V

> *O Ye!, surround this head with airy circling, > Your paths in noble elfin fashion tracing, > And soften in the heart its harvest grim*, > —for this reaches into the heart— > Remove reproach's bitter, glowing arrows, > —the reproaches are reproaches of conscience, but also of pleasure and displeasure, which have to do with the surging world of the soul.— > Within him make all pure from horror's gleam. > —Earlier the brain was involved, now it is the inner world.— > *Within him make all pure from horror's gleam. > Four in number are the nightly hollows, > Now, friendly, fill them up without a seam. > First lower head down on the pillow cool*, > —That corresponds to the words of the earlier verse: First strive for countenance that fills with light,— > Bathe it then in dews from Lethe's flood released; > —In the case of wisdom, the words go: To spirit's quest for power hold fast,— > Soon limbs, cramp-stiffened, will again grow supple, > —Corresponding to: Once lame-winged senses move again in flight,— > In rest, against the day his strength's increased. > —Corresponding to: His day in freedom can unfold.— > Fulfil most comely duty of the elf, > —These are elemental beings. There (drawing 3) it was spirits who live in the etheric, so the verse said: Thus truest spirit duly it fulfils, Through holy light to lead him where he wills.— > Return to holy light man's self.