Initiation or Consecration

Just as feeling is developed through images, so will is developed through the signs of occult writing. This will is the deepest of the hidden powers. This will becomes like a skeleton, which the human being pushes out into the outer world through this will. If you remember the images from the Munich Congress, the columns and seals: these are there to train the will. You have reproduced this in the folder we have published as “Images of Occult Seals and Columns.” I would like to discuss the principle of these occult seals and columns and explain their significance for initiation. Each of the seals represents what you can find in the “Apocalypse” or the “Secret Revelation of John.” In this folder you will find symbols. Each sign has a powerful, stimulating effect on human beings. On the first seal you will find a human figure; its feet are like liquid brass, and a fiery sword comes out of its mouth. I will not describe anything else. Anyone who delves into this seal will see that it, in particular, through this contrast, gives them something wonderful. In the last lecture of this winter series on “Sun, Moon, and Stars,” we will hear that Spiritual Science also takes us back to states of the Earth when it was in a fiery, liquid state and that — in contrast to materialistic science — human beings already existed then. Spiritual science itself can address the objection that human beings could not live in a fiery, liquid state. Human beings themselves were formed from fiery liquid mass at that time. This beginning of the Earth is represented to us in the fiery liquid metal feet. A later future state is represented to us by the fiery sword that comes out of the mouth, which reappears in all myths. I can only hint at what this is about. You will see how Spiritual Science is deeply connected with the innermost core of the world.