Fourth Lecture

However, one is only able to have thoughts about what is present in human evolution if one penetrates the mysteries that are to be painted inside our dome. Just as one can only ascend to the sphere of feeling, that is, to unbiased feeling without antipathies and sympathies in the becoming of peoples, if one experiences what is expressed in the column and architrave motifs from bottom to top, so one can penetrate these motifs to what lives in the becoming of man in every hour, in every moment. Only when one knows what the human soul experiences in every moment of human becoming can one know what has evolved over millions of years, for everything that was contained in the Atlantean and Lemurian cultures lives in every soul. No soul would be what it is if it had not absorbed this. One can only understand a human soul in its depths intellectually if one understands it from the perspective of the whole of human development.