Third Lecture

This motif—it is the Jupiter motif, just as the previous one is the Mercury motif—expresses the Jupiter culture of Eastern Europe. It is expressed in the motif's “serpentine” nature, which is directed entirely upwards, in what I would call its “folded” nature, which stretches out like folded hands towards what comes from above, and past which glides that with which earthly man must connect, that which comes from above like a flower.