If you turn around and look to the top of the mountain, you see, as the moon rises, a great number of terraces. On each of these platforms there are forest clearings, on which contests take place, in which the students practise the powers of the giants in the light of the full moon.

“These mental exercises are protected from outside by the five rings of the world rule - no sound from the world ever reaches here, no smell is allowed in, not even the vision of beings arrives here from outside.”

“And due to this outer protection we also reach a higher level of perception in the following ”ring of the outer exercises of the mind.”

“From now on we need not communicate any longer with the outer mouth, nor hear with the outer ear; all that is to be heard, to be felt, to be seen, to be tasted and to be smelled here reaches directly our mind, which is enlivened by the sun-set and permeated by the calm, cool brightness of the fullmoon night.”

“And if we talked outwardly, we would only disturb the exercises with such noise.”