47. The Essence of Man as the Key to the Secrets of the World

Here, in the very naming, you have something that can lead you to the character of this most human link of the human being, the fourth link, through which man is the crown of earthly creation. Those who have felt that the human inner being announces itself, that it must be experienced from within, through spiritual perception, have always seen in this I-being something like a drop from the ocean of divine substance. That is why this “I” or “I am” was designated by certain religions, which had an insight into these things, as the ineffable name of God in the human breast, ineffable to the outer world; it can only resound when the divine in man becomes aware of itself. What carries this “I” in man, this I, which, for example, is elevated to the divine by the God of the Old Testament in the famous word [Jehovah], we therefore also call the “I-bearer”, the innermost part of man, by which he differs from the entities and forces around him.