THE ENERGY, WHICH  is generated and appears in the form of a desire, is a living organism which, when forced to be drowned inside us, we feel writhing and digging deeply into us until it cools off. Its death is a death of ourselves.

     Hippocrates says that "our nature is similar to a place to be sown".

     Xenophon says, in his economic discourse, that "the weeds that grow wild and are buried in the earth before they form their seed, in order to grow again during the plowing of spring, are the best source of strength for the soil". This tendency, which we want to control and shut inside us each time, is like those weeds.

     "However there are men", Xenophon says in the same discourse, "who do not react and they easily follow the way that we show them. How can they be cultivated?  These people need to be stimulated".

     So this work is necessary for spiritual man, and one should perhaps say that it benefits physical man, too. It is definitely needed by man-intellect, in order to develop him and strengthen him, so that he may become able to fly and build his own nest.

     In order to understand better what we are saying, I would like to place it in two pictures. In Picture 1 [Picture 2 is not discussed in this Selection], the area inside the circle shows the space, where this work is done. The area that needs cultivation. This area contains the untreated material, on which the energy must act. This is the area that the law of ethics is addressed to, here is where life works. Here is where pedagogy works. The circumference shows the boundary,

which has a limiting tendency. It regulates the action of the

energy.

     We could say that it is the governing mind. It is the

material, on which the forms of our own experiences and

the forms left by spiritual creations and the outside world

are imprinted. The center shows the source of the energy.

The outward tendency is found there. The circumference is

the inward tendency and thus the kneading and the mixing

and the cultivation and everything else are accomplished. Inside the center is the lord, who will distribute the fields to the slaves and will set them free when their time comes. The lord, who will set the boundaries when the cultivation will have been accomplished. Here is the outward tendency, which wants to break the locks of the body. Here is the form, which has all the forms inside, without itself being any one of them. It is the form that will be given to the inner man-under-construction, when his completion will have been accomplished, i.e. when he will be born, when he will be realized.

     But this form does not use its powers violently. It waits for the way to get ready for it to pass. Even more, it wants to make us its companions, to take us with it. So that we may fly to the heights, like Faust*.

     It is enclosed here, inside us, in order to help us in our work and complete it.

     It wants to make us capable of participating in all its treasures, before it leaves for its home country. It is the hand that, as it passes by in its departure, will strike the well tuned strings, so that we may hear, without foreign sounds or discord, the most special music. The music of the spheres.

     It wants to transmit the flame of life to us without burning us. It wants to take us together in its daring flights without tiring us. It wants to show us its land without startling us. It wants to give us its form without taking away our individuality.

     So, when everything is ready and it takes off, leaving us ready to continue our life alone, the area under cultivation, where it will pass through, becomes its home, transmitting the flame of life to the forms that have cooled off. The limiting boundary is the ethereal garment, which will swathe it during its flight.

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HE NEEDED THIS  voyage. He should entertain himself and rest from his tiresome and long work. Its traces are deeply engraved on him.

     As he wrestled with the various forms, he allowed each one of them to put its own stamp on him.

     He hurt much and was deeply rutted. This does not matter. What interests him is, that he has known them all.

     And when he returns to them after his voyage and he finds them alive again, he will not stand next to them like a limiting boundary. They control themselves now. And he will live with them, in company. The one will help and complete the other. They will find in him a protector and helper and guide. He will find the source of his life. They will be the heart and he will be the body. He will swathe them like a garment made to fit their size and shape.

     The impression of the form he took on last, the form of life, will give him the ease in changing and adapting that life has, which appears to us in infinite forms and shapes.

     This limiting boundary will give these forms their freedom without them asking for it.

     It will let them be free so that they may enjoy the advantages of freedom. And so that the environment may enjoy the treasures of their land, that they will spread about.

     And these treasures, whatever their form may be, however big or small they may be, they will contain one thing inside. Joy.

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OH, WHAT TREASURES  this word contains in it!

     We, who have now learned how much pain was needed in order for joy to be born. We, who have see, who contributed to it. We, who have learned its origin. We also know its value.

     We have seen what ultimately clean country it comes from. How much the hands that offer it to us have worked. Which immeasurably great power has offered a part of itself in order that joy may be born.

     If we would allow joy to act, free and immaculate. If we would give it the opportunity to appear more often. If we would allow it to show us all its beneficent power.

     We would be surprised by the wealth and the beauty that it would spread about. The effectiveness in our work that it would create. Our release from the burden of labor that it would bring about.

     And it does not ask for anything else, other than to allow it to do so. It is up to us, to allow it.

     When we treat joy badly, the light of our eyes becomes dim.

     When we kill it, a - let us pronounce the great word - God suffers. A light goes out. A world dies.

     And this situation affects the universe. Let us think for a moment, what would happen if the sun would go out.

     From the joy of a child, that is generated by a toy, up to the joy of the adult, that is generated by a human being.  Joy should be respected more than any other treasure in the world.

     Beethoven, when he was writing his 9th Symphony, which is the symphony of joy, realized that his instruments alone were not enough to render the image of joy. The human voice should be added. And he completed his orchestra by adding the choir.

     So from the above we see that the tendency to escape, that exists in human beings, is not an utopia. It exists because it is realizable. There is something inside us, whose place is not there. It wants to escape.

     It has fallen down here, but it wants to fly to its own worlds.

     So, are there other worlds?

     Trustworthy persons have told us so, and we ourselves sense it intuitively. It must be so.

     When we remember that life first appeared in a liquid environment. Then on the earth, which is surrounded by the atmosphere, which - we could say - is a thinner liquid, the liquid in a gaseous state. The thought should arise that all of us on the earth move on the bottom of a sea of air, which, however deep it may be, has somewhere high, very high, its surface, from where another state of things begins.

     But where is it? We do not see it.

     The fish that swims on the bottom of the sea does not suspect the existence of heavenly bodies. We see them and we may reach them with our machines some day. But it is impossible to go beyond them with our machines.

     Only the power that every human being has inside can lift him thus high, with the help of the attraction, which exists only in man, to the inner world of people and especially to the center of the circle in Picture 1.

     The direction of this attraction is upward, as with a flame. While, for man-body, the direction is downward.

     Our homeland is up there. Up there, very high. Beyond the stars.

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* Goethe: Faust, 2nd Part, verses 10064-10066: "... goes toward the ether carrying with her the best part of my being, with speed". After verse 9954: The garments of Helen become clouds, swathe Faust, lift him up to the heights and leave with him. That is why, when Mephistopheles, after Faust's death, came to take his soul according to the agreement, he did not find it. What remained was not permitted to him to approach. Before Faust died, his soul had left, disappeared, was saved.

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