“All these mighty streams of light rise from the inner, cosmic life-breath and are governed by this perfect breath from the level of pure consciousness.
The mastery of the moon-alfs lies particularly in the control of consciousness through the streams of intelligence of the cosmic life-breath. This control focusses on the cooler fields of the mind, on the reason, and this is why these artful radiant beings are called the moon-alfs.

“Just as the light of the moon derives from the sun, and the sunbeams are cooled off on the earthis companion as she travels through the icy streams of cold of infinite space, in the same manner the golden, warm light-streams of pure self-awareness, which rise through the feeling, are cooled at the mirror-smooth surface of the mind, and shine forth as the world of pure consciousness.

“If, however, this mirror-smooth surface of the mind is set into vibration by the very finest winds of the cosmic life-breath and starts to wrinkle, the creative process begins which is able to generate everything in the world - even the creation as a whole.

“At the border of the infinite field of pure intelligence, the moon-alfs, as the inner sovereigns of pure consciousness, pass their power over the worlds on to the giants - who then continue to rule the creation with the almighty forces of creative intelligence.

“The task of the moon-alfs is to receive the inner, all-creative cognitive forces, which rise with the feeling out of the cosmic sun, to guide them to the world of the perfectly quiet mind and to pre-create there in the pure consciousness, with the help of the cosmic winds, the whole world in perfection on a minute scale.
In the world of the mind, and furthermore in nature as a whole, the giants then have to bring this perfect cosmic world to full unfoldment, which under the artful hand of the moon-alfs has unfolded beyond space and time in the transcendence.

“Look at the sunbeam-like veins of the feeling, those fine golden lines within the silvery moonlight-like arrows, by which the helmsman of the ship guides the craft.
These redgolden veins of light are the divine flows of those forces, on which the moon-alfs rely when building the perfect creation in the transcendence; the sparks which drive these rays, are the divine forces of Muspelheim, which during each and every act of creation carry the warmth of life into all that is created.
You know the effect of these sparks yourself from the streams of happiness which on this adventurous journey thrilled your conscience so many a time like a blissful shower fulfilling you so lively and glowfully.

“From oneis limited view of the world - with limited insight, insufficiently educated senses, and hardly developed faculty of cognition - one can usually hardly distinguish the inner world of happiness.
This world of inner bliss, however, is a most vital, mighty, creative world of power, because from the depth of the heart it can govern all the cosmic events.

“And when this world of happiness is perceived incompletely or not at all, the sources of bliss dry up; life as a whole is then being hampered in its natural unfoldment, and all of nature is dragged into a maelstrom of ever narrower boundaries; step by step the forces of nature cease to function, and chaos spreads in the world.

“Here in the rings of cognition, the pupils become familiar with the inner impulses of bliss, and they learn to discriminate their multiplicity.
They also learn to skilfully channel the almighty streams of the blessing creative force.