“Everything that has been in the mind before in solid thought-form is at this great sun-sacrifice brought into the state of glow, then liquefied, further transformed into golden shapes of air, and finally laid down in the fading golden garment on the altar of pure self-awareness. The same thing basically happens at the great full-moon sacrifice too, but there the fading silvery-white thoughts are sacrificed on the altar of pure consciousness.

“Thus, at the great full-moon sacrifice the human mind finds itself, and in this all-refreshing sacrifice the sacrificer perceives the cosmic almighty nature of his mind.

And here, in the great sun-sacrifice, the sacrificer furthermore recognizes the infinitely more powerful nature of his conscience; and as he performs the rites of the great sun-sacrifice, he recognizes himself as all the gods, one after another, and finally as Odin, the ruler of the gods.

“Also, during his perfect rule over his own innermost breath, the sacrificer begins to know the high domain of Allfather who once whispered, while thinking, the many-voiced sacrificial chantings to him when he went the golden gleaming way of sacrifice for the first time.

“Just as the unfathomable silence of pure consciousness is enlivened almightily by the all-creative golden sources of pure conscience which spring in the depths of self-awareness, in the same manner the enlivened silence of pure self-awareness again is stimulated by the delicate cognitive streams of the free will with pure intelligence of life which spring from the depths of pure consciousness.

Only this mutual enlivenment of the omnipotent world of the gods and of the omniscient world of the giants through the golden and silvery streams of pure happiness of life and pure joy of life stimulates the all-wise streams of cosmic life-breath - streams of pure life-harmony - to flow and give immortality so that they unite the worlds of the gods, the giants, and the alfs in the world of man.

In that manner man attains to a life in cosmic freedom - full of happiness of life, joy of life, and harmony of life,” Sol finished his explanations.

Suddenly Mani and Sol came forth from the golden-gleaming sun - as if they had been going through it; and when Mani opened her eyes spontaneously she thought she was entering the world of stars.

Before herself she saw a gorgeous meadow of flowers; it gleamed and glistened in the evening-sun as if made from the purest of all jewels of the world.

Emeralds of hitherto unthought-of manifold beauty formed in beautifully arched shapes the grass of many green shades; glowing red rubies and gleaming deep-blue sapphires, and uncountable other plants of jewels never seen before reached as flowers of the highest perfection towards the sun, setting in the west, and towards the full-orbed silvery-white moon, rising in the east - like happy children that reach out for their beloved parents.