Lesson XVII

Really, we watch, as inspired with these world-thoughts, these present beings of the Third Hierarchy wend their way to the present beings of the Second Hierarchy, whom they serve; they wend their way to the Exusiai, the Dynamis, the Kyriotetes. And before us we have the mighty image of the appearance of the pure spirit-being, the sun-dweller, that simply appears there, when the physical image vanishes, that sun-designed, that small, in spite of all its vastness in relation to the earth, that small image, for it is only an image, when that small image by the sun vanishes. And majestically the sun will encompass the entirety of all, endlessly far larger than the vast world-image. Appearing then are the present beings of the Second Hierarchy, weaving, living in the pure realm of spirit, now really receiving what the Angels, Archangels, Archai bring to them. These are not dead thoughts, such as we have; there the dead thoughts have been taken in from the sensory-semblance and in the in-breathing by the Angels, Archangels, Archai have become enlivened. As in a mighty opera the Angels, Archangels, Archai carry these enlivened thoughts forth to the present beings of the Second Hierarchy, to the Exusiai, Dynamis, Kyriotetes. The very thoughts that have lived in earth existence, that in earth existence are semblance, are awakened by the present beings of the Second Hierarchy into actual existence.