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. Rudolf Steiner, 1924 (GA270)