Alcohol leaves with the breath to preserve the living.

Rudolf Steiner said one needs spiritual vision to research the work of Manes. The closing module begins by asking what to do with that.

It opens on the magical breath of God and the spirit of Arab alchemy — whether people are afraid of clairvoyants, how clairvoyance could be tested at all, what the Resurrection of Jesus was, which sciences the Arabians excelled at, and how the soul carries sound.

Two lectures were given in the evening. The first asks what the Rosicrucian school is in the modern age, whether warriors will come to an end, and what the defeat of Odin by the Fenris Wolf means. The second asks whether a man can hear spiritual beings, what Angels sound like, and whether there is a heavenly knowledge unlike any other kind.

Then the heart. The longest lecture in the course asks what the language of your heart is, whether two hearts can speak to one another, whether there is a universal heart spirit — and what it means when you doubt where you are going.

And then the crossing. The final lecture is the one this module is named for: the senses that lie latent in the heart and how they awaken, the astral cloud of the heart, the veils of the aethers and the Sushupti Plane, the four initiations for entering spiritual nature, and what it is actually like to cross the sea of the heart. It gathers in al-Kindi and Rumi, the dervish physician Ahi Evran and the dervish Yasawi, the four instructions given to the Dervishes, the poet Rabia Balkhi, Galatians 4 and Romans 7 — and then, without warning, Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther at the birth of European Romanticism, and a spiritual revelation found in a song by Bob Dylan.

Also here: The Esoteric Atom — Can It Be Seen?, and two primary sources read alongside the lectures — the Covenant of Ali ibn Abi Talib to the Christians of Armenia, and Imam Ali’s writings on Jesus Christ and Christianity.

We cannot promise you will arrive. But the steps are recorded, and they are there for you to walk.

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