Eleventh Lesson

In the times in which such clairvoyance was prevalent, a person gazing out into space was presented not with what seemed to be burning points in the cosmos, but rather a person was presented with the god’s dwelling places. Back then, a person had a truer conception than one has today of just what was in the vast depths of space, whereas today by means of astronomy a person gazes out and evaluates the points of light according to their position and their angular distance from one another. Although a person is a three-membered being, he speaks and works out of his “I am” nature, his ego, which holds all together, all three members of his being, the nerve-sensory head system, the rhythmic chest system, and the metabolic-limb system. All this is held together only due to the physical body being a unity. Actually, however, a person always sends himself, his ego into the three individual members, and today, we will learn to identify just how he sends this ego into the individual members. A person presently says “I” out of the innermost part of his nature, initially through his thoughts in his head. In reality, it is this way: [it was drawn] that which is displayed out there in the element of the brilliance of the stars [blue arch, yellow stars] is what is working in the human head [yellow arch and rays from the stars]. It is out there but also within [red points]. A person says his “I” out of the center of his being in this convoluted open space, which is the inner nature of his head, from within out [an arrow accompanied by the word “I” in gold]. And he should become aware, when he says his “I” inwardly in the central part of his human nature, which is an image of the god’s dwelling places, then working in him are the gods, they who dwell in the dwelling places of the gods, they themselves. Then we are meditating properly, when we ourselves become aware, that when we say “I” through the force of our head, speaking in us are the gods of universal space and universal time.