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.In this place it felt, by reason of its sensitiveness to light, the urge towards and desire for darkness.The Angel-Being carried the light into the darkness, or an Angel-Being carried the darkness into the light.These Beings became the intermediaries, the messengers between light and darkness.The result was that what formerly shone only in light, an trailed behind it, its shadow, the somber, airy darkness, now began to gleam in all colours, that light appeared in darkness, and darkness in light.It was the Third Hierarchy which conjured forth colour from out of light and darkness.Observe, you have here something as it were historically documented to put before your souls.In the time of Aristotle one still knew — supposing one had pondered within the Mysteries on the origin of colours — that the Beings of the Third Hierarchy had to do with this.Wherefore Aristotle expressed in his Colour-Harmony that colour was a combined effect of Light and Darkness.But this spiritual element was lost — that the First Hierarchy was responsible for warmth, the Second for light and its shadow, the air, and the Third or the shining forth of colour in a world continuity.And there remained nothing but the unfortunate Newtonian theory of Colour, over which the initiated have smiled up to the eighteenth century, and which then became an article of faith with those who were just expert physicists.In order to speak in the sense of this Newtonian theory, it is really necessary for one to have no knowledge at all of the spiritual world.And if one is still inwardly spurred by the spiritual world, as was the case with Goethe, one is utterly opposed to it.One states what is correct as Goethe did, then one storms dreadfully.Goethe was never so furious as on the occasion when he castigated Newton; he was simply furious about the wretched nonsense.We cannot understand such things today, simply because anyone who does not recognize the Newtonian teaching concerning colour is looked upon by the physicists as a fool.But it was not really the case that Goethe stood quite alone in his own time.He alone uttered these things, but even at the end of the eighteenth century the learned knew perfectly well that the origin of colour lay in the spiritual world.Air is the shadow of light.Just as when light radiates and, under certain circumstances, gives rise to deep shadow, so, if colour is present, and this colour works as a reality in the airy element, not merely as a reflection, not merely as a reflex-colour, but as a Reality; then the fluid, watery element arises from out of the real colour element.As air is the shadow of light, in cosmic thought, so water is the reflection, the creation of the element of colour in the Cosmos.You will say you don't understand this.But just try to grasp the real meaning of colour.Red — well — do you believe that red in its real nature is only the neutral surface on generally regards it? Surely Red is something which attacks one.I have often discussed it.Red makes one want to run away; it pushes one back.Violet-blue one wants to pursue; it continually evades one, and gets ever darker and darker.Everything lives in colours.They are a world of their own, and the psychic element feels in the colour-world the necessity for movement, if it follows colours with psychic experience.Today man stars at the rainbow.If one looks at it with the slightest imagination, one sees elemental beings active in it.They are revealed in remarkable phenomena.In the yellow certain of them are seen continually emerging from the rainbow, and moving across to the green.The moment they reach the underneath of the green, they are attracted to and disappear in it, to emerge on the other side.The whole rainbow reveals to an imaginative observer an outpouring and a disappearance of the spiritual.It reveals in fact something like a spiritual waltz.At the same time one notices that as these spiritual beings emerge in red-yellow, they do it with an extraordinary apprehension; and as they enter into the blue-violet, they do it with an unconquerable courage.When you look at the red-yellow, you see streams of fear, and when you look at the blue-violet you have the feeling that there is the seat of all courage and valor.Now imagine we have the rainbow in section.Then these being emerge in the red-yellow and disappear in the blue-violet; here apprehension, here courage, which disappears again.There the rainbow becomes dense and you can imagine the watery element arises from it.Spiritual beings exist in this watery element which are really a kind of copy of the beings of the Third Hierarchy.One can say that in approaching the learned men of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth centuries, one must understand such things in this way.You cannot understand Albertus Magnus is you read him with modern knowledge, you must read him with the knowledge that such spiritual things were a reality to him and then only will you understand the meaning of his words and expressions.In this way therefore air and water appear as a reflection of the Hierarchies.The Second Hierarchy enters in the form of light, the Third in the form of colour.But in order to enable this to be established, the lunar existence is created.And now comes the Fourth Hierarchy.I am speaking now with the thought of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.Now the Fourth Hierarchy.We never speak of it; but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries one spoke freely of it.What is this Fourth Hierarchy? It is man himself.But formerly one did not understand by it the remarkably odd being with two legs and the tendency to decay that wanders about the world now; for then the human being of the present day appeared to the scholar as an unusual kind of being.They spoke of primeval man before the Fall, who existed in such a form as to have as much power over the earth as Angeloi, Archangeloi and so on, had over the lunar existence; the Second Hierarchy over the solar existence; the First Hierarchy over the Saturnian existence.They spoke of man in his original terrestrial existence, and as the Fourth Hierarchy.And with this Fourth Hierarchy came — as a gift form the higher Hierarchies of something they first possessed, and preserved, and did not themselves require — Life.And life came into the colourful world which I have been sketchily describing to you.You will ask — But didn't things live before this? The answer you can learn from man himself.Your ego and your astral body have not life, but they exist all the same.The spiritual, the soul, does not require life.Life begins only with your etheric body; and this is something in the nature of an outer wrapping.It is thus that life appears only after the lunar existence, with the terrestrial existence, in that stage of evolution which belongs to our earth.The iridescent world became alive.It is not only then that Angeloi, Archangeloi, etc., felt a desire to bring light into darkness and darkness into light and so called forth the play of colours in the planets, but also they desired to experience this play of colour inwardly, and make it inward; to feel weakness and lassitude when darkness inwardly dominates over light, and activity when light dominates over darkness.For what happens when you r un? When you run it means that light dominates over the darkness in you; when you sit and are idle, the reverse happens.It is the effect of colour in the soul, the effect of colour iridescence.The iridescence of colour, permeated and shot with life, appeared with the coming of man, the Fourth Hierarchy [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]