Mantram from Repetition-Lessen Three See in yourself the thoughts-weaving: World semblances you are experiencing, Selfhood-Being hides from you; Dive under into the semblances: Ether-Being flows in you; Selfhood-Being, it shall revere Your spirit guide-being. To hear within the flow of feeling: when semblance and reality merge each other, Your selfhood tilts to the semblance; So dive into semblancing being: And worlds-souls-forces are in thee The selfhood, it should well consider Your own soul's life-powers. Let prevail in you the wills thrust: Which rises out from all semblance-being With ownbeing creating rises up; Turning to him all your life Which is Filled with world-spirit-power; Your ownbeing, it should grasp World creative power in the spirit-I. Feel how the earth's depths Their forces, your essence-being, pressing into the body-limbs. You lose yourself in them, If you, Your will powerless entrust to their striving; They will darken your I. Feel how from world distances Godly-powers let their spirit-brightness Let it shine into your soul being. Find yourself in them loving, And they creating, wisdom-weaving You as self in their circles Strong for spiritual works of good. Feel how in heaven's heights Selfhood selflessly can exist, If it spirit-filled the thought-powers Follows in the pursuit of height And with courage gets the words which gracefully intoning from above Into man's true essence-being. It battles the light with dark forces In that realm where your thinking Want to enter into the spirit-being. You find, striving towards the light, Your self taken from you by spirit; You can, when darkness entices you, Losing the self in the stuff. It battles the warmth with the coldness In that realm, where your feeling wants to live in spirit-weaving You find, loving the warmth, Your Self in spirit-pleasure blown-away; You can, when coldness hardens you, In suffering, atomize the self. (vaporize) It battles the life with the death In that realm where your will Want to act in spirit-creation. You find, grasping life, Your Self in spirit-forces disappearing; You can, if death-forces is taming you, In nothingness cramping the Self Rudolf Steiner, 1924 (GA270)