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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



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