But look at the sacrifice fires of the next ring as they rise towards the sky, piled even finer. These are the cognitive fires of
space, and the songs that you hear are the purest and mightiest known to the world.
These songs govern, from within, all the winds; they fan all the fires, drive all the waters, and melt all the ice.

“Sound governs from within the forces of the air, the fire, the water and the earth, since it permeates them all.
Therefore sound is, for the five elements, the mightiest source of power.”

“This is why in all these rings of the rule over the world sound is employed to govern the elements, and is, by means of these songs, being sent into the worlds.”

“If these singers did not direct their tunes into all the worlds, the coherence of the elements air, fire, water, and earth would be at risk, and the creation would break apart, because its inner coherence were missing.”

“If the songs of this fifth ring of cognition ceased, man would doubt the meaning of life and would lose his spiritual goals.
The world of his feeling would cool down and even the search for a life in fulfilment would finally be given up.”

“The music which the surf of the shore sends back to the island, is magnificent too,” said Mani.
“It is the thanks of the elements to these sensitive fellows of the art of sound,” replied the brother.

“But now we will enter a new field,” Sol continued. ”These five rings of sacrificial fires were prepared by the master for the benefit of the world.
These fires burn for the cognitive process of the world, and their result shows best in the general rise of world consciousness.”

“Therefore these rings of songs are also named ”the rings of the rule over the world.”
From here all the important tendencies of evolution are guided; and from here all the broad tensions are equalized globally, and from here the songs of the bards carry great impulses of perfection into all regions of growth.

“But besides their task of directing all the tensions of world politics into the world ocean and harmonizing there the divergent human forces, these rings of songs serve yet another, quite different purpose: they protect the Island of Happiness from all outer influences.
It is these first five rings of songs that form the advanced bulwark for the performance of the mental exercises.”

“All the noise of the world reaches up to the sea out there; the greetings of gratitude for their performance advance up to the bards, but nothing from outside finds its way any further than here.“