Seven years of age is the white stag because his wise rider had realized unity-consciousness for herself, and thus know how to put into natural effect the laws of the gods - by connecting the divine will with the high creative force of the sun-alfs.

“Here at the border to transcendence, where we are right now, is the natural field of life of the three- to four-year old white stags; for from here, from pure consciousness, all the activity of the world, that is to be experienced, streams towards us in the multifarious change of fluctuating waking- and dreaming-consciousness.

“The five-, six-, and seven-year old stags usually live in the higher woods of the island, in rings of cognition, which we still have to go through on our way to the peak.