{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 93/1904-12-02/p010","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The opportunity for this came about as Hiram-Abiff was about to fulfil his masterpiece, the casting of the Molten Sea. The *movement* of the waters was to be held fast in *Form*. The surging sea was to be preserved alive artistically in a rigid form. That is the point. The three apprentices conspired to make the casting in such a way that instead of flowing into the mould it would flow out over the surroundings. Hiram tried to arrest the flow of the fiery mass by throwing water over it, but this caused the metal to spray up into the air and descend again with great force in a rain of fire. Hiram was powerless to do anything. But suddenly a voice called out to him: ‘Hiram! Hiram! Hiram!’ He was ordered by the voice to plunge into the sea of fire. This he did and he sank down ever deeper until he reached the centre of the earth where fire has its origin. There he met two figures, his ancestor Tubal-Cain, and Cain himself. Cain was irradiated with the brightness of Lucifer, the angel of light. Then Tubal-Cain gave Hiram his hammer which had the magical property of restoring all things to their proper order and he said to him: You will beget a son who will gather about him a race of wise folk, and you will be the progenitor of those who have been born out of fire which brings wisdom and makes man thoughtful. The Molten Sea was now restored by means of the hammer.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"7. The Essence and Task of Freemasonry from the Point of View of Spiritual Science I","site_heading":null,"date":"1904-12-02","location":null,"word_count":259,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/93/1904-12-02/p010","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"John M. Wood","identified_edition":"RSP1985","book_title":"The Temple Legend","publisher":"Rudolf Steiner Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA093/English/RSP1985/19041202p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Hiram! — Diese Stimme forderte ihn auf, sich in das Feuermeer zu stürzen. Er tat es und sank immer tiefer, bis zum Mittelpunkt der Erde, wo der Ursprung des Feuers ist. Da traf er zwei Gestalten an: den Stammvater Tubal-Kain und Kain selbst. Kain war bestrahlt von den Strahlen Luzifers, des Lichtengels. 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