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In formations of a sphere-shaped
likeness (in the cavity of the mouth) I see two
gestures of forces: one from the periphery to the
center, the other to the periphery from the center:
"ttt" flies apart; and -- it spreads in all
directions; but beings of other forces reflect
these boiling forces backwards to the roaring
center of the sphere; and these forces compose the
sound "b" gestures of the lips attacking and
surrendering to what is flying to meet them on the
return; between "bt" pour over vapors of the
burning sphere in the molted mouth:
"h-w-h"; in the one incarnated in the flying
flaming air of the resounding whirlwind between the
forces "t" and the forces "b", dragging me to and
fro, I sense that which I am able to express
murkily, as
I parody
myself:*--
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-- there is no separation into
"I" and "not-I"; the surviving sphere senses
"everything is - inside", and throws --
-- b --
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-- the heat, substances of
content -- inside; the sensation falls inwards: the
horrors of the transfer of consciousness are
horrifying: "I pour over: inside -- in the
center...."I" The center explodes apart
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-- t --
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-- and casts backwards "hw": to
the periphery from the center consciousness is
carried back; consciousness, the vowel letters,
(for example "o-u-a-o-u") are carried ceaselessly
about, by turns they are tossed by beating forces
("ttt," "bbb", "ttt") from the periphery back to
the center; to the periphery -- from the
center...--
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-- Rudolf Steiner with the
assistance of sounds of the Hebrew language
clarifies all of this;** these "o-u-a-o-u", clothed
into "h-w-h" form the image "ohu-wa-ohu"; and
"ohu-wa-ohu", between the forces "t" and 'b" form
an image of the well known combination of sounds
"tohu-wa-bohu"
which in Hebrew
signifies: "void
and without form
[water]": the earth was void and without
form [water]... And the Spirit of God moved
above it."
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Here is the clarification of
Steiner: --
-- Pronunciation of the sound
"t" provides us a picture of an explosion, a flying
apart; and -- the flying away to the
sides:
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To this I add, that the forces
"t" compose for us the plant world; the
uninterrupted growth of a tree depicts the flying
apart (or growth) of the fabrics of the tree in the
direction of the periphery (toward the rays) away
from the oppressive center of the earth; the very
outline of flowers depicts for use the gestures of
this flying apart; a flower is -- an
incarnation.
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The pronunciation of the sound
"b" provides us with a picture of an enormous
hollow sphere, inside of which are -- we, and from
the surface of which essences act, forming earthly
covers (both water, and earth).
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To this I add: if the forces of
"b" did not reflect back to us the activity of
growth (of the forces "t"), we would grow our whole
life; our skin is -- a cover -- a boundary, formed
naturally from the equilibrium of forces of "t" (of
the flying apart) and of the forces of the good
essences, acting from the periphery and toward the
center:
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All of the seething sounds in
"tohu-wa-bohu,"
that is "h-w-h" are for me gases of the earthly
composition on the first day of creation of the
earth,
"void and without
form" of the first
day of the Bible is the void from the point
of view of our picture of the earth; not a void,
but a -- fullness of delicate gases; "without form"
is -- the formlessness and flowing quality of
everything, that is in "bereshiit
bara Elohim" (that
in the Beginning God created); "h-w-h" are the very
first fabrics: "h" is -- the fabric of minerals;
"w" -- the fabric of the germs of plants, and the
animals; in "h-w-h" flows out that which
subsequently is -- "k"; "h" is -- molten "k"; it
pours over that which condenses as the animal
cover; meanwhile everything is carried stormily
about: on the day beginning day of the Earth, on
the day "ha'arez":
the contents of the forged Earth is --
--tohu-wa-bohu
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Illus.
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and the cosmic image is kept a
mystery in "tohu-wa-bohu" -- in the barrenness and
invisibility, where there is no separation of the
waters and no external light; -- in the circle of
the center (which has the outline of a face) -- is
outlined the place of the earth and from it, just
like wings, forces are extended: that is -- "t";
and "ohu-wa-ohu," spilling over, is carried way;
the forces of "b" depict "ohu-wa-ohu"; from the
composition of these forces are composed the salts
of salts: flesh of fleshes (our flesh) with the
spark locked into it.
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Earth begins with that image,
which is given by me; all sounds in the earth --
between "tohu" and "bohu" later subside;
the
seven days of the Bible
can be rearranged into
the days of the week and tell the tale of that
subsiding, the appearance of the grasses of
language: the departure out of the lips of the
winged
animals: eagle (f), ox
(b), lion (v); here I place a period: --
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The Head is the Earth; the
chalice of sounds lies in a inverted view; the
serpent exhales; and you can see the beginnings of
the coming planet, being prepared by speech; "t"
(paradise) is -- a place of greenery; the animals
resound from the lips; at the opposite end cliffs
and rocks are raising up; earth exhales Saturn
("U-h-r");
inside is -- the chalice of the sea.
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