By Kim Graae Munch.

07/02/2020 04:59:30

The Cosmic Christ and the Zodiac

"There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able
to see may see the sun; and those who are blind and cannot see him may feel
his heat.

There is an Eternal Sun, which is the source of all wisdom, and those whose
spiritual senses have awakened to life will see that sun and be conscious of
His existence; but those who have not attained spiritual Consciousness may
yet feel His power by an inner faculty which is called Intuition." ~Paracelsus
I have changed the translations from ego to 'I' so it is in agreement with Steiners original text where he uses the German 'Ich'. See German original as pdf file: GA 102.

General Constitution of Higher Beings

From Rudolf Steiner's: The Influence of Spiritual Beings on Man, Lecture II

When we speak of man in terms of Spiritual

Science we say that the whole man — and we
think of man only in this sense — is a seven-fold
being, consisting of physical body, etheric body,
astral body, ‘I’, spirit-self, life-spirit, spirit-man.
His development is not yet complete but will be
when his sevenfold being has fully developed.

But in the great cosmic All there are beings

other than man, beings of a different nature.
There are, for example, beings in the cosmos of
whom we cannot say that, like man, they have
the physical body as one of their members.
There are beings of whom we must speak
differently.

The members of which man is composed can be

enumerated as follows:

1. Spirit-Man
2. Life-Spirit
3. Spirit-Self
4. Soul, 'I'
5. Astral Body
6. Etheric Body
7. Physical Body

Now there are beings whose lowest member is the etheric body; they too are sevenfold, having an
eighth member, higher than spirit-man. We begin to enumerate thus: etheric body, astral body, and so
forth, finishing with a member above our spirit-man (Atma). [Angels]
 There are other beings whose lowest member is the astral body; above spirit-man they have an eighth
and yet a ninth member. [Archangels]

Again there are beings whose lowest member is the ‘I,’ the soul, and who therefore have not a
physical nor an etheric nor an astral body in our sense but whose ‘I’ streams outwards without the
three sheaths. [Archai, Spirit of Time and Personality.] They are therefore beings who send forth I’s in
all directions. These Beings have an eighth, a ninth, and a tenth member; they are described in the
Apocalypse as beings who are “full of eyes”.

Then there are beings in whom spirit-self (Manas) is the lowest member. They have yet an eleventh
member. [Spirits of Form.]

And finally there are beings whose lowest member is the life-spirit and who have yet a twelfth
member.

You must therefore think of beings who, just as man's lowest member is a physical body, have life-
spirit (Budhi) as their lowest member and above, a highest member best designated by the number 12.

These are most sublime beings, far transcending everything that man is able to conceive. How is it
possible to form any kind of idea of these most wonderful, most sublime beings?

To the left we have the Zodiac with the hierachies. The seven from Pisces to Virgo is man, and the seven from Libra to Aries is the Sacrificial or
Mystical Lamb. To the right the Royal Arch, a Masonic symbol, containing the upper and first seven signs, the Mystical Lamb, the Cosmic Christ.
The body of the Sacrificial Lamb is Libra, Life Spirit, purified etheric body, the Etheric Sun that sacrifies it's energy for all of creation.
Man in the Surrounding Universe
When we try to characterize man, in one aspect, it is obvious that with respect to the universe, he is
a being who receives.

The things and beings of the world are outspread around you; you perceive them, you form concepts
of them. Just imagine that the world around you were empty, or dark. You could have no perceptions,
nor would there be anything of which you could form concepts.

You have to rely upon receiving from outside the content of your inner world.

It is characteristic of man that he is a being who receives; he receives the content of his soul-life, his
inner life, from outside; things must exist in the world if his soul is to have content.

The nature of man's etheric body is such that it could experience nothing in itself were it not
beholden to the whole surrounding universe for all experiences, for everything that enters into it.

The Cosmic Christ as Life Giver

These beings of whom I have just told you, who have life-spirit as their lowest member, are in an
entirely different position. In respect of their life, these beings are not dependent upon receiving
anything from outside; they are “givers,” they are themselves creative.

You know from what I have often told you, that the I works in the etheric body and that ‘Budhi’ is
nothing else than a transformed etheric body, In respect of substance, therefore, the life-spirit too is
an ether body.

The Cross is symbol for the Cosmic Christ, with the I AM as Here we have the seven rayes from the
the flame in the center, the etheric, intellectual soul, and mystical Lamb, the Cosmic Christ defining our
Buddhi as the horisontal axis, and with the soul as the reality the seven planet, the seven Charkras,
vertical axis. and the seven hierarchies we are part of.
Anthropos or Atman, the I AM, move up through the left
physical side where the Sophia moves up through the right
spiritual side, where they meet in the soul. Through seven
æons Atman move from the physical to Atma.
The Etheric Sun
The twelfth member of these sublime beings is also an ‘ether body’ but one which pours forth life,
which works in the world in such a way that it does not receive life but gives it forth, offers life in
perpetual sacrifice. [Sophia, Christ, Apollo, the etheric sun giving energy to all of creation.]

And now let us ask: Can we conceive of a being who is in ‘some’ way connected with us and who
radiates life into our universe? Is it possible to conceive of life that is perpetually streaming into the
world, imbuing the world with life? [Sophia, Apollo, the Etheric sun.]

Let us think for a moment of what was said at the beginning of the lecture, namely that there are
ascending and descending forces — forces that are ascending to the Zodiac and forces that are
descending from the Zodiac.

How has man reached a position which makes it possible for something to stream from within him?
What has happened to man that enables something to stream forth from him? He has reached this
position because his ‘I’, after long, long preparation, has steadily unfolded and developed. This I has
been in course of preparation for long, long ages.

For truth to tell, the object of all existence in the Saturn-condition, the Sun-condition and the Moon-
condition when the sheaths into which the I was to be received were produced — was to prepare for
the I. In those earlier conditions, other beings created the dwelling-place for the I.

Now, on the earth, the dwelling-place was at the stage where the I could take root in man [Golgotha]
and from then onwards the I began to work upon the outer, bodily sheaths from within.

The fact that the ‘I’ is able to work from within has also brought about a surplus, a surplus of
ascending forces; there was no longer a state of parity.

Before the ‘I’ was able to work within man, the ascending forces gradually evolved until the middle
point had been reached; and when the, ‘I’ actually entered into man the ascending and the
descending forces had reached the stage where they were in ‘balance.’

At the entry of the ‘I’ [I AM], the ascending [Anthropos] and the descending [Sophia] forces were in
balance [Athroposophia] and it rests with man to turn the scales in the right direction.

That is why the occultists have called the constellation which was entered at the time when the 'I'
itself began to operate, the ‘Balance’ (Libra).

Up to the end of Virgo, preparation was being made for the deeds of the 'I' in our planetary evolution,
but the 'I' had not itself begun to work.

When Libra had been reached the 'I' itself began to participate and this was a most important moment
in its evolution.
Just think what it means that the
‘I’ had reached this stage of
evolution: From then on it was
possible for the ‘I’ to participate
in the work of the forces
belonging to the Zodiac, to reach
into the Zodiac. The more the 'I'
strives for the highest point of its
evolution, the more it works into
the Zodiac.

There is nothing that happens in

the innermost core of the ‘I’ that
has not its consequences right up
to the very Zodiac. And inasmuch
as man with his ‘I’ lays the
foundations for his development
to Atma, or spirit-man, he
develops, stage by stage, the
forces which enable him to work
upwards into the sphere of Libra,
the Balance, in the Zodiac.

He will attain full power over

Libra in the Zodiac when his ‘I’
has developed to Atma, or spirit-
man. He will then be a being
from whom something streams
out, who has passed out of the
sphere of Time into the sphere of
Duration, of Eternity.

Such is the path of man. But

there are other beings whose
lowest sphere of operation is
man's highest. Let us try to
conceive of these beings whose lowest sphere of operation is man's highest (Libra in the Zodiac).

When we relate man to the Zodiac, he reaches to Libra. The Being whose innermost nature belongs
wholly to the Zodiac, whose forces belong wholly to the Zodiac, who only manifests in planetary life
through his lowest member, which corresponds to Libra (as man's lowest member corresponds to
Pisces) — this is the Being who spreads life throughout the whole of our universe:

The creation starts in Aries and moves down or out to Pisces, and the development moves up from Pisces toward Aries. But the
development don't move linearly in or up.

Just as man receives life into himself, so does this Being radiate life through the whole of our
universe. This is the Being Who has the power to make the great sacrifice and Who is inscribed in the
Zodiac as the Being Who for the sake of our world offers Himself in sacrifice.

Just as man strives upwards into the Zodiac, so does this Being send us His sacrificial gift from Aries —
which is related to Him as Libra is related to man. And just as man turns his ‘I’ upwards to Libra, so
does this Being radiate His very Self over our sphere in sacrifice.

This Being is called the “Mystical Lamb,” for Lamb and Aries are the same; therefore the description
‘Sacrificial Lamb’ or ‘Ram’ is given to Christ.

Christ belongs to the cosmos as a whole. His I reaches to Aries and thus He becomes Himself the
“Great Sacrifice,” is related with the whole of mankind and in a certain sense the beings and forces
present on the earth are His creations.

The configuration of forces is such that He could become the Creator of these beings in the
constellation of Aries, or the Lamb. The designation “Sacrificial Lamb” or “Mystical Lamb” is drawn
from the heavens themselves.

This is one of the aspects revealed to us when from our circumscribed existence we look up into the
heavens and perceive the interworking of heavenly forces and beings in cosmic space.

Gradually we begin to realize that the forces streaming from heavenly body to heavenly body are akin
to those forces which stream from one human soul to another as love and hate. We perceive soul-
forces streaming from star to star and learn to recognize the heavenly script which records for us what
is wrought and effected by those forces in cosmic space.

Hilma af Klint - Three Altarpieces.

My interpretation. The first altarpiece shows the down streaming of the seven hierarchies we are
part of, the seven inner planets, the seven chakras. The second altarpiece may show what we
send back to the Logos, corresponding to the five lower bodies. The third altarpiece is the
Cosmic Christ with the First Logos in the blue upper right, the Second Logos in the upper left
gold colored, and the bottom with the rays is the Third Logos working into the creation.
Man as an Image of Macrocosm
From Rudolf Steiner, The Fifth Gospel, III

The ordinary man is a microcosm in relation to the macrocosm, he is an image of the

whole macrocosm. Such is the body of the individual human being — that is to say,
what comes to manifestation in the physical body of a man. What man becomes on
earth reflects the great universe.

With the Christ Being the opposite is the case. The macrocosmic Sun Being shapes
Himself into likeness with the form of the human microcosm, narrows and contracts
more and more into the human microcosm. Exactly the opposite!

Viśvákarma - The divine architect of the Universe

From The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of
Nature, lecture 9, April 13, 1912:

"Then came the civilisation of Zarathustra; and Zarathustra pointed

again to the same being whom the Holy Rishis had called Vishvakarma,
only he alluded to him in his own way as Ahura Mazdao. The Holy
Rishis knew, as also did Zarathustra, that what is meant by Vishvakarma
represents the Spirit of Wisdom who streams down upon the earth and
encompasses wider spheres than do the individual Spirits of Motion.
Zarathustra too knew that Ahura Mazdao has wider spheres than the
Spirits of Motion."

Viśvákarma is the deity of all craftsmen and architects, which reminds of Cains
and Hiram Abiff, the Principal Universal Architect who fabricated and
designed the divine architecture of the Universe. Brahma emerges at the
moment when time and universe is born, inside a lotus rooted in the navel of
Hari, Vishnu. In Rig veda Viswakarma is seen as the Ultimate reality, from
whose navel all the visible comes. Same imagery is seen in Yajurveda purusha
sukta, where the divine smith Tvastar originating from Viswakarma. As he is
Aja the unborn he is the primordial personification of the upanishadic
Parabrahman.

Vishwakarma was the universal father, creator and an all seeing god who has faces, eyes and feet on every side; and who
produced and gave name to all the Heavenly, Earthly and other Celestial realms and preserves them through the exercise
of his arms and wings. He sacrificed himself to himself for the evolution of this visible world, thus he is Purusha, in
Christian tradition, the Mystical Lamb.

Vishvakarma created five sons - corresponding to his five faces. Visvakarma's eldest son was Manu, who married
Kanchna, the daughter of sage Angira. The second son was Maya, who married Soumya, the daughter of Parasar rishi.
The third son was Tvasta, who married sage Kaushik's daughter, Jayanti. The fourth son, Shilpi, was married Karuna,
daughter of Sage Bhrigu. The youngest son, Devagya (Visvajna) married the Sage Gemini's daughter, Chandrika. Their
respective Rishis were Sanaga Brahma Rishi, Sanaathana Brahma Rishi, Abhuvanasa Brahma Rishi, Prathnasa Brahma
Rishi, and Suparnasa Brahma Rishi.

Visvakarma's five sons are Manu, Maya, Tvasta, Shilpi and Visvajna (Devagya). The sons are understood to be the
forbearers of five gotras (clans) of Vedic craftsmen: Manu was an ironsmith, a clan of blacksmiths, Maya was a
woodcrafter, a clan of carpenters, Tvasta was a metalsmith who worked with brass, copper and alloy, a clan of bell
metalworkers (metal casters), Silpi was a stone carver, a clan of stonemasons, and Visvajna, the youngest son, became a
great jeweler, working with gold and silver, a clan of goldsmiths.

See Sophia - Created in the Beginning, Wikipedia.

On Atman
"The higher bodies flow into one another. For instance, Atman is in truth a one-ness for the whole of
humanity, like an atmosphere shared in common. Nevertheless the Atman of the single human being is
to be understood as if each one were to cut a piece for himself out of the common karma, so that, as
it were, incisions are made in it. But the separateness must be overcome. This we do when we form
human attachments of a purely soul nature. By so doing we do away with the separateness and
recognize the unity of Atman in everything."
Rudolf Steiner [October 9, 1905].

Vishnu, the Omnipresent One

However, the supreme personality of the light worlds is Brahma, the highest Light being within the universe, in the
topmost ‘heaven’.

Brahma, though, is not the supreme creator, he is a created being, the ‘first-born Son of God’. There are countless
universes with countless Brahmas but in each universe there is only one.

The universes themselves emanate from the absolute Individual, in Sanskrit called Vishnu, ‘the omnipresent One’, God as
Creator. The emanation and dissolution of the countless universes is described as the exhaling and inhaling of Vishnu, as
bubbles of space and time within the Causal Ocean of Vishnu.

Within this primordial universe Brahma appears as a ray, or ‘son’, of Vishnu. Through Brahma, hierarchical dimensions
of existence are materialized, basically seven in number. It is Brahma who creates in ‘seven days’, starting with the
channelling of light into the dark universe: ‘Let light come to be.’

See Sophia, Created in the Beginning.

The Birth of the Sunspirit

The inner spiritual light is the etheric light of Buddhi.

From The Birth of the Sun-Spirit as the Spirit of the Earth.

For in the autumn, when outer Nature fades, when the sun's creations fall as it were into slumber and
man's organs of outer perception must turn away from the phenomena of the physical world, the soul
has the opportunity — nay not only the opportunity but the urge — to withdraw into its innermost
depths, in order to feel and to experience: Now, when the light of the outer sun is faintest and its
warmth feeblest, now is the time when the soul withdraws into the darkness but can find within itself
the inner, spiritual Light.

The lights on the Christmas Tree stand there before us as a symbol of the inner, spiritual Light that is
kindled in the outer darkness. And because what we feel to be the spirit-light of the soul shining into
the darkness of Nature seems to be an eternal reality, we imagine that the lighted fir-tree shining out
to us on Christmas Night must have been shining ever since our earthly incarnations began.

The Twelve Stages of Consciousness

There are seven grades of human consciousness: trance consciousness, deep sleep, dream
consciousness, waking consciousness, psychic, super-psychic and spiritual consciousness.

Actually these are in all twelve stages of consciousness; the five others are creative stages. They are
those of the Creators, of the creative Gods. These twelve stages are related to the twelve signs of the
zodiac.

The human being must pass through the experiences of these twelve stages. He ascended through the
trance, deep sleep and dream consciousness up to the present clear day consciousness.
 In the succeeding stages of planetary evolution he will reach still higher stages. All those which he has
already passed through he will also retain within him.

The physical body has the dull trance consciousness as this was gained by man on Old Saturn. The
human etheric body has the consciousness of dreamless sleep, as this developed on Old Sun. The astral
body dreams in the same way as one dreams during sleep. Dream consciousness derives from the Old
Moon period. On our present Earth, man achieves waking consciousness. The ’I’ has clear day-
consciousness. ~Rudolf Steiner, Lecture 1. 26th September 1905

See also Sophia, Created in the Beginning where it's described how Buddhi and the etheric sun was created in various
traditions.

The Three Mother Letters

The Hebrew letters, their form and how they are created, how they are put together to extend its meaning or create new letters, is
simply so beautiful and ingenious that it’s nearly unbelievable. The Hebrew letters is an artificial alphabet just as sanskrit is an artificial
language. It reminds in it’s construction of a sublimation of Chinese signs.

The letters and words are archetypal signs, giving a unique strength to describe the esoteric wisdom that only can be understood
through the archetypes and not through abstractions.

But we don’t need to understand the Hebrew letters, the archetypal informations is found everywhere. The reason I describe the Three
Mother Letters is that they tell the same story as the Gnostic creation story around Sophia, the Christian and the Indian creation stories,
and the Mayans, and many others, with a very simple but clear symbology.

The three mother letters is not only the three letters the other letters of the alphabet is formed, but also the primordial
powers of the universe who created everything in existence, the Three Logoi, the Trinity.

See The Three Hebrew Mother Letters.

The history of God is described through the development from Aries down to Pisces.
The Cosmic Christ and Man in the Kabbalah Tree of Life
The Hidden meaning of the Greek Alphabet - Under
development

The Greek Alphabet Code of Simaioforos Theologos:

The consonants are divided in two groups, the celestials and the earthly. This helps us separate, conceptually, the
actions and properties of letters.

Character Name Eng. Greek Alphabet Code of Simaioforos Theologos

The letter Α (Alpha) means the Primary Force and schematically it is a

Α α alpha a Primary Force complex letter, as Λ and Δ are embedded. This shows that we perceive this
Primary Force through Solar radiation.

Β β beta b Energy (in any form)

Γ γ gamma g Earthy

When we close the shape of Λ (Λ-Δ) we create a triangle, just like a

Δ δ delta d Power - Force - Construction - Creation dynamic energy field and the letter Δ (Delta) is created, which means Δ =
Power-Force that constructs and creates.

Ε ε epsilon e Motion - Movement - Course - Expansion We use the letter Ε(Epsilon) when we call somebody from afar.

Ζ (Zeta), by shape, describes the power of thunderbolt that is charging

Ζ ζ zêta z Life – Heat – Warmth
earth.
The letter Η (Eta) is two Ι iota united (Ι+Ι). Ι describes an invisible
Η η êta ê Double descent of radiation – Appearance - Revelation constant supply of creative force and doubled it becomes visible. Η means
Appearance-Revelation.
The letter Θ (Theta) describes a space (Ο) bisected by an horizontal line.
Θ θ, ϑ thêta th Viewing This line expresses a level (for example: the horizon). If we look to the
horizon through a telescope we see a Θ.
The Mystical Lamb, the Cosmic Christ the source of energy to the
Ι ι iota i Constant supply - Descent of force-light-radiation
creation.

Κ κ kappa k Down - Low - Low qualities of energy

Solar radiation – Illumination (in spiritual levels) and liquids in Nature The letter that exactly expresses the Solar radiation, is Λ(Lambda),
Λ λ lambda l (when forces on Earth) consisting of two I(Iota) from a single point.
Μ (Mu), shows two Lambda (ΛΛ) united. The double amount of solar
Μ μ mu m Concentrated solar radiation - Visible nature radiation leads to condensation of matter, things and creatures becomes
visible.
Mind – Intellect – Law (in a spiritual level) and Water (in Nature, in
Ν ν nu n material level)

Ξ ξ xi ks (Κ+Σ) What is down in internal space - Case

Ο ο omikron o Particular Space or Area of all sizes – A Body First Logos

Π (Pi) is a celestial consonant, so its horizontal line refers to the sky-

heaven level. The two vertical lines are the energy suppliers and surround
Π π pi p Fire – Father – the Paternal Fire
all that is “under His protection”. The letter Π, means primarily Father
God and secondarily Fire – the first element of Creation.
The letter Ρ(Rho) represents a space Ο, from which the radiation of
Ρ ρ rho r Flowing of energy-radiance-liquid, the flux of radiation
an Ι (Iota) is “flowing”, so Ρ, means flow.

Σ σ, ς sigma s Internal space– inside viewing

The letter Τ (Tau) as an earthly consonant, its horizontal line refers to the
ground level. All the force that governs this letter, acts under the surface of
Τ τ tau t Consolidation - Firmament of force-radiation-energy
the earth, but because of the concentration of the earthen material, this
force is consolidated.

Υ υ upsilon u Concentration - Accumulation of force-radiation-energy Υ (Upsilon) is shaped like funnel.

Φ φ phi f Light – Illumination (natural or spiritual) Second Logos - The letter Φ describes a space (Ο), that is «bisected» by a
vertical line. This line is an Ι(Iota). (I) is the descent of a vertical line of a
 small quantity of force, light or life energy that constantly supplies (Ο) a
space, causing action and movement in the created. Φ means the Light.

Χ χ chi ch Soil elements – Earthly bodies

Ψ ψ psi ps (Π+Σ) Internal Fire

Ω ω omega ô Planet - Upon the planet

When children draw the sun, they make a circle with rays (just like the shapes below) Λ, two Iota's:

By the verb «Λέω/leo» (I say, I tell), primarily “speaks” our Sun and then we, as small suns, emit our own light.
According to the Code, ΛΕΩ means the (Λ) solar radiation, that (Ε) is expanding, (Ω) upon the planet.

Decoding the word “Σοφία” (Sophia, Wisdom) The word ΣΟΦΙΑ/Wisdom is quite revealing. By the consonants
only, we get the idea of the meaning of this word, as Σ means the inside space - internal viewing and Φ is the Light.
So the basic idea is that ΣΟΦΙΑ means the Internal Light, that is also applying to the words ΣΟΦΟΣ = the wise
(man) and ΣΑΦΕΣ the clear (message).

Decoding the whole word, we get this information:

Σ = inside
Ο = space
Φ = where Light
Ι = is constantly supplied
Α = by the Primary Force

One word alone, gives more information when we approach it in a philosophic “mood”... A wise man is receiving
Wisdom-ΣΟΦΙΑ, so he is not only the one that once have seen the Light inside him, but he is the one that is
constantly fulfilled with Light (if not constantly, then he is not wise) and this is stated by a «humble» Ιota. The
theological knowledge that springs from this word is, that this Light comes from the Primary Force, as Alpha
means. The Primary Force implies the Divine presence.

The presence of the Divine Force, the Spiritual Light and Mind is very often present inside the words. We would
dare to say that the words, through letters, constantly praise God's Glory.

What does the word “Ψυχή” (Soul) reveal about its nature. I shall give you another word to think about, a word
that, when I first heard its decoding, I was astonished by the revelation of these 4 “tiny” letters, that with the use of
the Greek Alphabet Code become “knowledge o f a lifetime”. In the word ΨΥΧΗ Soul, by Ψ and Χ , we are
informed that Ψ Π Σ ) is the Internal Fire and Χ are the Earthly bodies. So, the basic idea of the word is that the
substance of Soul is Fire, a Fire “captured” inside a body.

Decoding the whole word

Ψ Π Σ ) = Divine immortal internal Fire (that originates from the Father)

Υ = concentrated
Χ = in Earthly Body
Η = is revealed

Or

Π Σ Υ Χ Η when we die, there is no revelation/life

Π Σ Υ Χ as we loose this earthly body of ours
Π Σ Υ there isn’t any concentration/etheric body
Π Σ as there isn’t any internal space/astral body, so what is finally left, is only a
Π , the Immortal Fire/I AM (Π = Fire and Father).

The word Φίλος/friend is also interesting.

According to the Code, ΦΙΛΟΣ means
 (Φ) the light that
(Ι) constantly supplies, through
(Λ) solar radiation, a
(Ο) particular area or body.

Our first Friend is the sun, but also in human relations, Friend is every person that emits his light towards us, while
we ought to do the same, or else we are not friends.
So we learn from the word itself, the meaning of Friendship, that indicates the need for reciprocity, in order to keep
a friendship.

See Decoding Hidden Meanings of Ancient Greek Alphabet Letters.

The Music of the Spheres - The Melody of the Soul

From Inner Nature of Music, Lecture IV

If we first focus on the mediating member of man, man's speaking, we can say that an essential part
of the earth's culture and civilization lies in speaking. Through speaking, people come together here
on earth; speaking is the bridge between two persons. Soul unites with soul. We feel that in speaking
we have an essential aspect of life on earth; it is, after all, the earthly reflection of life in the Logos,
in the Word of the universe.
…
It is similar in the case of language; the language we speak here on earth is adjusted in every respect
to earthly conditions, for this language is an expression of our earthly thoughts. These earthly
thoughts contain earthly information and knowledge, and language is adapted to them during earthly
existence.

The spiritual inhalation is the inspirational wordless thinking,

where the ideas comes from outside. We loosed it when
incarnation on earth, but its our goal to reclaim it again on
earth, by silencing the constant noise from the earthly
thinking.

In pre-earthly existence, man has a language that

does not actually emerge from within, that does
not follow the exhalation. Instead, it follows
spiritual inhalation, inspiration, something in pre-
earthly existence that we can describe as
corresponding to inhalation. It is a life within the
Word of the universe, the universal language,
from which all things are made.

As we descend to the earth, we lose this life

within the universal language, and here we
acquire the means that serve to express our
thoughts, our earthly thoughts, and the human
intellect, that is, the intellect among all human
beings dwelling on earth. It is the same with the
thoughts we have here as with the thinking. Thinking is adapted to earthly conditions. In pre-earthly
existence we live within the weaving thoughts of the universe.
…
Not only what man bears within himself but everything surrounding him in outer nature is a reflection
of the spiritual. When man expresses himself in speech and song, he expresses his whole organization
of body, soul and spirit as a revelation to the outside as well as to himself, to the inside. Man is
completely contained, as it were, in what he reveals in sound and tone.
…
In the course of humanity's historical evolution, speech has emerged from a primeval song element. …

Twelve Primeval Consonants and Seven Vowels

 Everything brought out in speech is composed of the elements of consonants and vowels. The element
of consonants is actually based on the delicate sculptural formation of our body [Körperplastik]. How
we pronounce a B, a P, an L, or an M is based on something having a definite form in our body.
…
All consonants contained in a given language are always actually variations of twelve primeval
consonants. In Finnish, for example, these twelve primeval consonants are preserved in a nearly pure
state. Eleven are retained completely clearly; only the twelfth has become somewhat unclear. [Gap in
transcript.]

If the quality of these twelve primeval consonants is correctly comprehended, each one can be
represented by a certain form. If they are combined, they in turn represent the complete sculptural
form of the human organization. Not speaking symbolically at all, one can say that the human
organism is expressed sculpturally through the twelve primeval consonants.

Actually, what is this human organization? Viewed from an artistic standpoint, it is really a musical
instrument.
…
The vowel element is the soul playing on this musical instrument. When you observe the consonant
and vowel element of speech, you actually discover a self-expression of the human being in each word
and tone. Through the vowels, the soul of man plays on the “consonantism” of the human bodily
instrument. If we examine the speech of modern-day civilization and culture, we notice that, to a
large extent, the soul makes use of the brain, the head-nerve organism, when it utters vowels. This
was not the case to such an extent in earlier times of human evolution.

If we see the human organism as the harmony of the consonants, everywhere we find it in the longing
for vowels and therefore the soul element.
…
The soul element, which expresses itself in vowels, pushes against the element of consonants. The
element of consonants is shaped sculpturally according to earthly conditions.

If one ascends to the spiritual world in the way described in my book, Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
and Its Attainment, one first acquires imagination, imaginative cognition. Meanwhile, one has lost the
consonants, though the vowels still remain. In the imaginative world, one has left one's physical body
behind along with the consonants, and one no longer has comprehension for them. …

The Melody of the Soul

In the spiritual perception that can be gained through inspiration, a new element begins to express
itself, namely the spiritual counterparts of the consonants.
…
These spiritual counterparts of the consonants, however, do not live between the vowels but in them.
In languages on earth the consonants and vowels live side by side. The consonants are lost with the
ascent into the spiritual world. You live in a singing world of vowels. You yourself actually stop singing;
it sings. The world itself becomes universal song.

The soul-spirited substance of this vowel element is colored by the spiritual counterparts of the
consonants that dwell within the vowels. Here on earth, for example, there is an a tone and a c-sharp
tone in a certain octave.

As soon as one ascends to the spiritual world, there is not just one a or one c-sharp of a certain scale;
instead, there are untold numbers of them, not just of different pitch but of different inward quality.
It is one thing if a being of the hierarchy of angels utters an a, another when an archangel or yet
another hierarchical being says it. Outwardly it is always the same revelation, but inwardly the
revelation is ensouled. We thus can say that here on earth we have our body (sketch on left, white)
and a vowel tone (red) pushes against it. Beyond, in the spiritual world, we have the vowel tone
(sketch on right, red), and the soul penetrates into it and lives in it so that the tone becomes the
soul's body.
 You are now within the universal music, the song of the universe; you are within the creative tone, the
creative world. Picture the tone here on earth, even the tone that reveals itself as sound: on earth it
lives in the air. …

The Music of the Universe

This soul-spiritual element of tone belongs in reality to the super-sensible world, and what lives here
in the air is basically the body of tone. It is not surprising, therefore, that one rediscovers tone in the
spiritual world, where it is stripped of its earthly garment, the earthly consonants. The vowel
element, the spiritual content of tone as such, is taken along when one ascends into the spiritual
world, but now it becomes inwardly filled with soul. Instead of being outwardly formed by the
element of consonants, the tone is inwardly filled with soul.
…
Picture how man passes through the portal of death. Soon he leaves the consonants behind, but he
experiences the vowels, especially the intonation of vowels, to a greater degree. He no longer feels
that singing is produced by his larynx but that singing is all around him, and he lives in each tone.
…
As I have explained to you, when man has passed through the portal of death, he passes at the same
time from the earthly world into the world of the stars. Though it appears that I am speaking
figuratively, this description is a reality. Imagine the earth, surrounding it the planets, and beyond
them the fixed stars, which are traditionally pictured, for good reason, as the Zodiac.

From earth, man views the planets and fixed stars in their reflections; we therefore say that earthly
man sees them from the front. The Old Testament expresses this in a different way. When man moves
away from the earth after death, he gradually begins to see the planets as well as the fixed stars from
behind, as if here.
 He no longer sees these points or surfaces of light that are seen from the earth; instead, he sees the
corresponding spiritual beings. Everywhere he sees a world of spiritual beings. Where he looks back at
Saturn, Sun, Moon, Aries, or Taurus, he sees from the other side spiritual beings. Actually, this seeing
is also a hearing; and just as one can say that one sees Moon, Venus, Aries, or Taurus from the other
side, from behind, so one can say that one hears the beings who have their dwelling places in these
heavenly bodies resound into cosmic space.

Picture this whole structure — it sounds as if I speak figuratively, but it is not so, this is a reality;
imagine yourself out there in the cosmos: the planetary world further away, the Zodiac with its
twelve constellations nearer to you.

From all these heavenly bodies it sings to you in speaking, speaks in singing, and your perception is
actually a hearing of this speaking-singing, singing-speaking. When you look toward the constellation
of Aries you have a soul-consonant impression. Perhaps you behold Saturn behind Aries: now you hear
a soul-vowel. In this soul-vowel element, which radiates from Saturn into cosmic space, there lives the
soul-spiritual consonant element of Aries or Taurus.

You therefore have the planetary sphere that sings in vowels into cosmic space, and you have the
fixed stars that ensoul this song of the planetary sphere with consonant elements. Vividly picture the
more serene sphere of the fixed stars and behind it the wandering planets. As a wandering planet
passes a constellation of fixed stars, not just one tone but a whole world of tones resounds, and
another tone world sounds forth as the planet moves from Aries to Taurus. Each planet, however,
causes a constellation to resound differently. You have in the fixed stars a wonderful cosmic
instrument, and the players of this instrument of the Zodiac and fixed stars are the gods of the
planets beyond.
…
Take the consonantal human organism; loosen it, as it were, from the solid imprint, which it has
received from the earthly forces of gravity or the chemical forces of nutrients; loosen what permeates
the human being in a consonantal way! We may indeed put it like that.

When a human lung is dissected, one finds chemical substances that may be examined chemically.
That is not the lung, however. What is the lung? It is a consonant, spoken out of the cosmos, that has
taken on form.

Put the human heart on a dissecting-table; it consists of cells that can be examined in relation to their
chemical substances. That is not the heart, however; the heart is another consonant uttered out of
the cosmos. If one pictures in essence the twelve consonants as they are spoken out of the cosmos,
one has the human body.
…
Man, as he stands before us, on earth, is really the result of two cosmic arts. From one direction
derives a cosmic art of sculpturing, from the other comes a musical and song-like cosmic art. Two
types of spiritual beings fuse their activities. One brings forth and shapes the instrument, the other
plays on the instrument.

On the two powers, see The Two Pillars and the Planet of Love. Orpheus is an expression of the Second Logos.
 No wonder that in ancient times, when people were still aware of such things, the greatest artist was
called Orpheus. He actually possessed such mastery over the soul element that not only was he able
to use the already formed human body as an instrument, but with his tones he could even mold
unformed matter into forms that corresponded to the tones.

You will understand that when one describes something like this one has to use words somewhat
differently from what is customary in today's prosaic age; nevertheless, I did not mean all this
figuratively or symbolically but in a very real sense. The matters are indeed as I described them,
though the language often needs to be more flexible than it is in today's usage.

In Google books: MUSIC: Mystery, Art and the Human Being.

Eurythmy
The colors used is the etheric colors, complementary of physical colors.

From Marta Stemberger: What Stars Dance through the Consonants in Your Name?

The eurythmy zodiac wheel begins on your right side with the red Aries, and the sounds V and W. The
gestures are wave-like, arising from the primordial air and waters to create life as the Nature awakens
at the Spring Equinox.

Orange Taurus with its airy rolled R enables us to expand the projects we began in Aries, so that they
can fully shine in yellow Gemini and breathe with Ha and H.

The Summer Solstice welcomes Cancer, calming green, and warm F.

The sky blue of Leo invites us to relax. Its T and D caress us with yellows and reds, while still carrying
some green from July, and hinting at the cooler days to come with a trace of lilac.

Virgo deepens into royal blue, creates a lilac and blue arc with P, and embraces us with a protective B.

The Autumn Equinox ushers in the indigo of Libra, which balances the wheel on the left side with the
rainbow sound TS.

Then it’s time to descend into profound depths of dark purple Scorpio. Like a sorcerer, we cut through
the shadows with S and Z, to emerge in gratitude on the other side.

Sagittarius awaits in the light of lavender, cleansing any left-over residues with sharp K and gentle G.
 Now we are ready for the Soul to be reborn at the Winter Solstice. Bathe in spiritual life-giving waters
of L and soft pink—nicknamed peach blossom—rays of Capricorn.

Refreshed, we are drawn to ponder the flow of life by the blues, greens, purples of the molding M, lit
by the soft magenta of Aquarius.

The inner life grows stronger as the magenta intensifies in Pisces, and N thoughtfully pulls us out of
the night colors to be ready to enter the daylight at the Spring Equinox anew.

Marta Stemberger: From What Planets Vibrate through the Vowels in Your Name?

The Sun brings us the celestial vibrations of AU (pronounced “ah-oo”) on the waves of spiritual white.

The feeling Venus inspires awe through the openness of A (pronounced “ah”) at the heart level, in the
balancing hues of green.

Mercury is bright yellow, eager to connect the Heavens and the Earth with I (pronounced “ee”). The
gesture reaches up and down: “As above, so below”.

The ever-changing Moon stands royal in its purple esoteric attire. Its energy ceaselessly caresses the
world with AI (pronounced “ah-ee”), causing the waters to swell and ebb.

Mars is asserting himself with the red will to action, setting firm boundaries with E (pronounced “eh”).

Benevolent Jupiter shines in welcoming orange, embraces all with O (pronounced “oh”), and
encourages doing in the world.

The thinking energy of Saturn slows the wheel down, and invites us to ponder the indigo blue
mysteries of unity in U (pronounced “oo”).
The Zodiac and the Consonants.

Laute (German)
From Lexicon der Anthroposophie. See Eurythmie als sichtbare Sprache (Laut-Eurythmie-Kurs), GA 279c. Fünfzehn
Vorträge Dornach, 24. Juni bis 12. Juli 1924.

Laut A. Überall da, wo in der Sprache das A auftritt, liegt irgendwie eine Verwunderung zugrunde. Das
wußte man selbst noch bei denjenigen, welche die hebräische Sprache handhabten; denn was war in
der hebräischen Sprache das a, das Aleph? Es war der sich verwundernde Mensch. Philosophie beginnt
mit dem A (mit dem Erstaunen, wie die Griechen sagten). Wenn man Philosophie treibt erforscht man
letzten Endes doch eben den Menschen. Deshalb ist der sich verwundernde Mensch, der über sich
selbst, über sein wahres Wesen sich verwundernde, vor sich erstaunende Mensch, also eigentlich der
Mensch in seiner höchsten, idealsten Entfaltung: A. GA 279.52 Dem Vollen gegenüber, dem Weißen,
Hellen und alledem gegenüber, das mit dem Hellen oder Weißen verwandt ist, auch dem Klange
gegenüber, der mit dem Hellen verwandt ist, haben wir die Gefühlsnuance der Bewunderung, der
Verehrung: das A. GA 294.26

Laut AOU – OM der Orientalten. Wenn Sie den Versuch machen, einen Selbstlaut dadurch
herauszubekommen, daß Sie einen Laut haben, in welchem eigentlich A, O und U anklingen, dann
bedeutet das ein zwar zuerst Furchthaben, aber in das zuerst Gefürchtete sich trotzdem
Hineinversetzen. Es ist die höchste Ehrfurcht, die durch diesen Laut zum Ausdruck kommen würde.
Der Laut ist ja besonders in den orientalischen Sprachen ein sehr gebräuchlicher, aber er beweist
auch, daß die Orientalen Menschen sind, die viel Ehrfurcht entwickeln können, währerd er (als
Sprachlaut) in den abendländischen Sprachen weggeblieben ist, weil dort Menschen sind, denen die
Ehrfurcht überhaupt nicht zur Seele steht. GA 294.26f

Laut B. Wenn wir das B formen, so ist es immer die Nachahmung von etwas. Würde man nun festhalten
können in der Luftgestaltung dasjenige, was da in dem B sich bildet – es liegt darinnen, daß wir das B
aussprechen –, so ist es immer etwas Umhüllendes. Es kommt eine umhüllende Form heraus. Es kommt
dasjenige heraus, was man eine Hütte, ein Haus nennen kann. Das B bildet immer eine Hütte, ein Haus
nach. Wenn wir also anfangen A–B, dann haben wir «den Menschen in seiner Vollendung» und «der
Mensch in seinem Haus». Und so würden wir das ganze Alphabet durchgehen können und wir würden in
den aufeinanderfolgenden Lauten das Geheimnis des Menschen ausgesprochen haben, was der Mensch
im Weltenall ist. GA 279.54f

Laut C. Die Eigenschaft des Leichtseins wird nachgeahmt in dem C Laute. Die Natur macht es auch,
denn das Niesen ist fast dem C ähnlich. Das Niesen ist eine Erleichterung. Und die alten Okkultisten
haben gesagt: Das C ist in dem Urworte der Regent für die Gesundheit. GA 279.64f

Laut D. Das D ist Hindeuten, Hinstrahlen, das Aufmerksammachen, daß etwas da ist, das liegt in dem
D. GA 279.65
Laut E. Überall wo ein E steht und der Mensch hält bei dem E, bedeutet das eigentlich: Das hat mir
etwas getan, das ich spüre. GA 279.53 E: Man läßt sich nicht anfechten durch etwas, was einem
geschieht. GA 279.65 Haben wir das Gefühl, daß wir einen äußeren Eindruck abzuwehren haben,
gewissermaßen uns wegwenden müssen von ihm, um uns selbst zu schützen, haben wir also das Gefühl
des Widerstandleistens, dann drückt sich das aus in dem E. GA 294.26

Laut E-I. EI der Doppelvokal, bedeutet so etwas wie ein liebevolles Anschmiegen. In der Behandlung
des Kindes gebraucht man diesen Laut ei-ei: liebevolles Anschmiegen. GA 279.69

Laut F. Das Erleben der Isis im ausgehauchten Atmungsvorgange ist im F. So daß eigentlich F nicht ganz
genau, aber annähernd gefühlt werden kann als: Ich weiß. – Aber es ist mehr drinnen als das: Ich weiß.
– «Ich weiß» ist noch ärmlich, wenn man das F empfindet. Es wurde daher am frühesten verloren die
F-Empfindung. Es läßt sich eigentlich fühlen als: Wisse du – der andere, zu dem man spricht; F sage ich
zu ihm, um ihn aufmerksam zu machen, daß ich ihn belehren kann –, wisse, daß ich weiß. Ich werde es
daher durchaus als natürlich empfinden, wenn jemand, der einem belehren will, auf ihn losgeht und in
irgendeiner Form F haucht. GA 279.68

Laut H. Dieses H, der einfache Hauchlaut, kann empfunden werden und wurde auch von den
primitiven Menschen empfunden als die Nachahmung, die Gestaltung in der Luft, also die
nachahmende Gestaltung in der Luft des Heranwehenden. GA 279.60

Laut I. Fühlen wir es dem I an, was es ist, dieses Neugieriggewesensein und dann
Daraufgekommensein. GA 279.53 I stellt immer eine sich verteidigende Selbstbehauptung dar. GA
279.68 Haben wir das Gefühl des Hinweisens, des Näherns, des Einswerdens, dann drückt sich das aus
im dem I. GA 294.26

Laut L. Ein merkwürdiger Laut ist das L. Denken Sie nur einmal, was Sie da alles tun, wenn Sie ein L
lauten lassen. Denken Sie an Ihre Zunge, wenn Sie ein L lauten lassen. Sie gebrauchen Ihre Zunge in
einer sehr kunstvollen Weise, wenn Sie ein L lauten lassen: LL-L. Sie fühlen das Schöpferische, das
Formende, in dem Sie ein L lauten lassen. In den alten Mysterien hat man gesagt: Das L ist das in allen
Dingen und Wesen Schöpferische, Gestaltende, die die Materie überwindende Formkraft. GA 279.68f

Laut M. Jener Laut schließt in so großartiger Weise das heilige Wort Indiens: «AUM»; M ist dasjenige,
was alles versteht, was so hinübergeht im Atem, daß es sich allem anschmiegt und alles versteht. Das
M ist also das Ausdrücken dessen: Es steht im Einklange, es stimmt. Es schmiegt sich an, es stimmt,
wie das M am Ende des Wortes Leim. GA 279.72

Laut N. Aber es gibt ein anderes Verstehen, ein Verstehen, das ein abweisendes Verstehen ist, ein
Verstehen, wobei man sich leise ironisch gleich verhält, wobei man auffaßt das andere, aber zugleich
bemerklich macht: Was ist denn das alles! Das ist ja selbstverständlich. GA 279.88f

Laut O. Der Laut O ist im Grunde genommen nichts anderes als das Wirken des Atmens in uns, so daß
dieses Atmen ergriffen wird im Inneren vom Staunen, vom Erstaunen. GA 294.25 Das A ist reine
Verwunderung, reines Erstaunen. Das O ist ein verständnisvolles Sich-Stellen gegen dasjenige, was
schon auch zunächst Erstaunen hervorruft. So daß das O im wesentlichen gebärdenhaft wird, wenn
nicht nur der Mensch sich empfindet, sondern von sich ausgehend ein anderes Ding empfindet, oder
ein anderes Wesen empfindet, das er umfassen will. GA 279.81

Laut R. Das R ist das Wälzende, Drehende; alles das, was irgendwie den Eindruck macht, daß es RRRt.
GA 279.61

Laut S. In dem S Laut liegt ein Beruhigen des Bewegten, wobei man sicher ist, daß durch das
angewendete Mittel die Beruhigung eintritt. GA 279.75

Laut SCH. Das SCH ist das Wegblasende, was vorüberbläst. GA 279.60

Laut T. Sie wissen vielleicht, daß man dem Tao*, T, eine tiefe Ehrfurcht entgegenbringt, wenn man
versteht, was darinnen lebt. Dieses Tao, T, ist eigentlich das, unter dem man sich vozustellen hat, daß
es darstellt das Gewichtige, sogar das Schöpferische, dasjenige, was auch deutend strahlt, aber im
besonderen vom Himmel auf die Erde strahlt. Sagen wir also, dieses T: Bedeutsam von oben nach
unten strahlen. GA 279.65
Laut U. Eine andere Nuance den Dingen gegenüber ist diejenige Gefühlsnuance, die wir dem Leeren
oder auch dem Schwarzen, das ja mit dem Leeren verwandt ist, die Furcht- oder Angstnuance. Sie
drückt sich aus durch das U. GA 294.26 Das U kann empfunden werden als dasjenige, was seelisch-
innerlich erkältet, versteift, erstarrt. GA 279.60

Laut Z. Das Z kann empfunden werden als dasjenige, was heiter stimmt dadurch, daß es nicht schwer,
sondern leicht genommen werden kann; aber absichtlich eigentlich heiter stimmen will. Das kann
natürlich auch ein lebloses Ding sein. GA 279.76

From Riikka Ojanperä.