Fourth Lecture

It is peculiar to human nature that people can speak and do not always express their thoughts, that what appears as a thought in speech is often maya; it is, in a sense, only a discharge of their sphere of will or feeling. But having thoughts is something else, something more. Although it is the privilege of human beings to have such impulses of thought, it is one of the most difficult things for them to allow their impulses of thought to be permeated by real thoughts. This is still possible in everyday life, but if one wants to have the right thoughts for the great impulses of human evolution, then one must not even stop at what comes from feeling, let alone what comes from the will. One must allow one's thinking to be permeated by something even higher. Specifically speaking, one must not only allow the individual cultural spheres, as they appear one after the other, to have an effect on the soul, but one must also feel what is at work as even deeper impulses in these cultural spheres. This can only be expressed in the effect of the dome.