Fourth Lecture

Now you have to really bring this experience of getting up into your consciousness, and then you can have the experience of these forms (namely the dome in the drawing on page 51) by saying to yourself: This form differs from myself in that it cannot get up, that it always remains lying down. If it wanted to come to my experience, it would have to stand up, turn ninety degrees in a vertical plane. For what this dome has toward the sky, striving upward through its dome shape, is what a person has when they stand up, in their feeling of the world, especially through their hands. And if a person were lying down and could feel what is above them, they would feel the nature of a dome above them with their hands. What is expressed by such an architectural motif is decided in the sphere of feeling, in the sphere of sensation.