Second Lecture

These peoples still have little understanding of what we have expressed here with the symbol (the upper one in Figure 2), but they fully absorb everything that the sentient soul can take in from ancient times. They absorb all the secrets of the ancient forms, I would say, the secrets of the ancient artistic characters. This must be indicated [in the drawing] by allowing everything that has been shaped in the forms of earlier times to come down as a renewed gift from above. One might say: everything that lives in the character of these peoples rests as if on a pillar, so that it is expressed by this sign, which I have drawn on the board as a second sign (see Figure 2, page 33).