EL, Berlin, 12-18-'06
Today we'll try to get a little closer to the nature of the three
Logoi. Many Theosophists speak about these things before they know
much theosophy. This can only bring confusion and harm. If the higher
consciousness isn't awakened in a man, he can't really form an idea
about the three Logoi. And yet one can prepare the soul for right
vision in the future by making the right pictures. All spiritual
things make an imprint on the physical world also. So we'll look at
the things in the physical world that correspond to these high forces.
People usually say that a man has five senses. Occultism only names
three, namely smell, sight and hearing. Taste and the warmth sense lie
between these. When I smell something I take very fine particles of
the particular substance into my nose. Therefore in smell I perceive
matter itself. But when I see with my eyes I only perceive an image of
the object that's produced by a chemical process in the eye. Taste is
a sense in between smell and sight. Although I take parts of the
object into myself when I taste it, I don't perceive these parts
directly as in smell, for I must first subject them to a chemical
process to taste them. In hearing I perceive air vibrations and no
objects. I also perceive particular oscillations when I feel warmth,
but then my whole body perceives, whereas in hearing the perception of
oscillations takes place in an organ that's especially developed for
this.
The three Logoi are related to these three senses. The third Logos is
so selfless that he lets his being resound through the world. The
second streams himself out in pictures. The first Logos lets his own
body stream out. That is the highest grade of selflessness, when one
can let one's own essence flow out.
At the beginning of the world the first Logos began to let his being
stream out; a fragrance filled world space. Let the world aroma be the
first Logos. All material things originated from his body. He is the
aroma of the world. Then the second Logos began to stream out and he
wove pictures and forms into the world aroma. The world began to take
on form; light and colors lit up. Then the third Logos sounded through
the developing world. World aroma flowed in space, wonderful forms lit
up, and the sounds of the third Logos surged through this shimmering,
fragrant world.
Thus we can look upon the whole world around us as an outflow of the
three Logoi and thereby gradually press forward to their true nature.
Now a Logos does not work by himself — the three live and weave
completely in each other so that each of the three also expresses
himself in the other two. But we can't perceive the effects of the
three equally well, because they stream out at different times.
When our chain of planets first saw the light the streaming out of the
third Logos began. And his sound will only die out when our planet
chain will have reached the end of its development. But the waves of
the two other Logoi didn't first stream out at the beginning of our
world chain, they came over to us from previous world evolutions. The
flow waves of these two have a longer duration than those of the third
Logos. But before our planetary chain reached its goal on the Sun, the
streaming of the second had ended, and a new outstreaming began. This
new outstreaming is what really belongs to our planetary system at
which we too are working. Long before the new radiation of the second
Logos had fully streamed out it prepared itself. It was such
preparatory streams that brought Buddha, Zoroaster, Hermes and other
founders of religion into the world. When the light of the second
Logos shone in a preparatory way for the last time, it shone the
brightest, and that was in Christ Jesus. When it shines again now it's
the second Logos himself who radiates out his being anew.
The flow wave of the first Logos is even longer than that of the
second one. When the second Logos has already been flowing along for
some time, the first one's radiation is just dying away and begins his
new outraying, that then only really belongs to our planetary chain.
Thus the third Logos becomes the most clearly perceptible to us. He
sounds loud and clear, and if we want to characterize his nature we
say that he has a clear, vocalic sound: A.
The first and second Logoi also sound along in the third one, the first
and third radiate as pictures in the second Logos, and the second and
third Logoi stream out their aroma in the first Logos. But to begin
with only the interactions of the first and second are discernable in
the third Logos for us. Now if we can hear the clear, loud A of
the third Logos, the sound of the second Logos can also be heard in
there.
Since our second Logos
is still developing, his tone still sounds dull and yet vocalically
full, like U. Our first Logos who only arises in the future
sounds along like a quiet, humming undertone as a dully consonantic
M. Thus we have the sound of the most sublime powers expressed
in AUM. That's the goal towards which we are all striving: to
participate in the essence of these very sacred world forces. A human
soul only has value for world evolution to the extent that it
participates in these powers: AUM
1st Logos |
2nd Logos |
3rd Logos |
aroma |
sight |
hearing |
substance |
image |
movement |
Old Moon |
Old Sun |
Old Saturn |
The third Logos, sound, is entirely on the physical plane. We can
generate sounds and take them in. Later on a man will be able to place
the pictures of the outer world he receives via his eyes outside again
as forms via his pineal gland and blood that he'll then have under
control. He'll generate oxygen himself and convert the blue blood that
goes to the heart into red blood without the use of outside air. And
he'll give it for the creation of pictures and forms. When he's become
still more selfless he'll be able to give out his own substances and
create beings out of it by means of the pituitary gland and place them
outside.
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