The eye of the raven is for seeing, the voice for speaking, neither knows the other.

Where the study begins — and it begins with a difficulty rather than a doctrine.

Rudolf Steiner describes a great initiate named Manes, who called a council of the great initiates of past ages to consider how the ancient wisdom might be sustained and carried to a further glory. He says further that this council is not well known — because one must first be able to see it in the Akasha, and only then can one relate to it.

The first lecture takes up the riddles of the path: the duty of the spiritual researcher, and the conflict that arises between spiritual research and spiritual tradition. How does the quarrel between an old teaching and a new one begin, and what resolves it? The teachers of the soul are called as witnesses — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Tycho Brahe, Kepler, and Christian Rosenkreutz.

Then the supreme lesson of being taught. How do you know a teacher when you meet one? What are faith, order and truth worth to a soul? And what happened in 1910, when Steiner spoke of the Council of Manes and a stir went through those who heard him.

The third asks what was so important about that council, and brings forward the three individualities — Buddha, Scythianos and Zarathustra — and their relation to the work of Jesus.

The fourth is a simple lesson with great consequences: ask the right question. Which questions reveal an understanding of the invisible in nature, and which do not. Parsifal’s whole story turns on a question he failed to ask. This lecture is about the asking.

It closes on the secret math of inner space — the soul standing between the mathematics of the outer world and the inner. Kepler; the discovery of Neptune, found by calculation before any eye had seen it; and the secret math of Egypt.

2 Week Access. Your enrolment gives you two weeks with this module.

Continues in 135 Secret Blood and the Pristine Soul.