Fourth Lecture

Now, the will of human beings is that which is connected with subconscious experiences, which, one might say, is most directed by the gods in present-day human beings. The will is most directed by the gods, including, of course, Lucifer and Ahriman; which is why there is also an evil will. But it is carried and propelled forward by the gods, and human beings are only in very few cases able to know what is going on in their will. Therefore, what human beings express most involuntarily when they speak is what is predisposed in their will and caused by their will. One may even say: this is correct. Human beings have the least need to be fully conscious when they surrender to the original, elemental nature of their will, when they allow the impulses of the gods to be active in their will. The most elementary impulses are the impulses of the will. Therefore, I would say, human beings can progress in their incarnations from people to people, which is artistically represented in our building by the progression in the sequence of columns.