that the latter is nothing other than a refined and redirected
form of the former. This conception fits quite well with the
Taoist systems of inner alchemy, in which one works at refining
and transmuting the sexual energy in order to generate the
embryo of immortality, the subtle body in which the fullness of
the Higher Self can be experienced permanently.
But let us return to the voice. Steiner describes how, after human
beings had half of their sexual energy redirected (around the
middle of the Lemurian epoch), some new organs appeared in the
human body. The larynx was one of them. This establishes a direct
connection between the transformed and spiritualised sexual
energy and the larynx: as long as the hermaphrodite's sexual
energy was 100% directed towards procreation, the larynx could
not appear. Once part of the sexual energy was refined in order to
start ‘catching’ the Spirit, the larynx started to develop.
Now, if we try to understand the present function of our larynx,
we see that through the voice we express our thoughts and our
emotions, which is a way of giving them a more defined form. As
soon as you start practising the exercises given in the first
chapters of this book, you will realize that the throat friction
makes the third eye more tangible, as if shaping it. You will tune
into your third eye, and as soon as you start implementing the
throat friction, the third eye will immediately be perceived more
clearly and more intensely.
Steiner predicts that in the future of humankind, the larynx's
capacity to give form will become extreme, and the creative power
of the word will manifest even in the physical plane: just by
saying a word, the corresponding object will be materialised. Even
though staggering if one measures its implications, this concept is
after all no different from the vac-siddhi or creative power of the
word which, according to the Sanskrit texts, the ancient Indian
rishis had mastered. This suggests that human beings are gradually
gaining the capacity to create, similar to that of the Elohim in the
Old Testament. In other words it presents human beings as creative
gods in the making – a theme that runs through the whole of the
western esoteric tradition, starting in Genesis when, Adam having
eaten of the tree of knowledge, the Elohim exclaim: “Behold, the
man is become as one of us.” (Genesis 3:22) All these considerations
on the larynx lead one to think that there may be some symbolic
meaning behind the fable that Adam's apple was the piece of the
barré
(Barré)
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