Mantram of the 6. Lesson You step into the earthly-being With your will-forces-unfolding; As thinker you bestride the earthly being, Thinking-power will make you show your own animality The fear befor your own self must transform in your soul-courage. You live with the water-being Only through the feeling's dream-weaving; Pervading wakening water-being It will the soul in you Give as a dull plant existence; and Your selfhood's lameness must lead you to self-awakening. You perceive in the air-waeving Only memory's mental-image-forms; Take in willingly the air-being, It will be your own soul. Threatened as a coldly hardened stone; But your selfhood's death by cold Must give way to spirit-fire. You hold from Shining Light and power thoughts only you sustain within; When light-shine in you does think itself Will then untrue spirit-being As selfhood mania arise in you. Reflecting on the earth's needs Sustains you as a human being. Of Cosmic-Shaping you only sustain Your feeling's held fast within; When Cosmic-shape itself feels within you, So will unconscious spirit- experience stifles in you the essence of selfhood. But love of earthly values Will rescue your human soul. Of Cosmic-Life you only sustain Your will held fast in you If Cosmic Life fully grasp you Destructive lust for spirit then Will kill awareness of self in you; But spirit-given will for earth makes the God in man to reign. Cosmic-life X Lucifer Cosmic-shaping X Light X Warmth X Air X Water X Ahriman Earth X Rudolf Steiner, 1924 (GA270)