1. Board O Man, know yourself! So resounds the world-word. You hear it soulpowerful, You feel it spiritvastness. Who speaks so worldvastly? Who speaks so feltheartily? Does it act through space distant-radiation In your senses' being-experience? Does it sound through times waveweaves Into your life's evolving stream? Is it you yourself, who in space-Feeling, in experiencing time Creating the Word, feeling foreign Sensing in spaces emptiness of soul, Because you have the force of thinking Losing in the time-destroying stream. Mantram of the 8. Lesson See behind thinking's sensory-light, How in the darkened spirit-cell Willing rises from the body's depths; Let flow through your soul's strength Dead thinking into the world- nothingness And the will, it arises As world-thought-creating. See in feeling's soul-weaving As in the dreamsdawn Life streams in from cosmic distance; Let in sleep through the calm of the heart Human feelings silently blown away: And the worlds-life spirited As Human-Being-power. See over the will's body-activities, How in sleeping Activity-fields Thinking descends from the head's forces; Let through the soul-imagination to light human-will transform itself And the thinking, it appears as the wills-magical-being. Rudolf Steiner, 1924 (GA270)