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fruit of the tree of knowledge that remained stuck in his throat.
Interestingly, Steiner foresaw a crucial step in the long-term evolution of the larynx: the sexual force having been completely transmuted, the procreative function will no longer be implemented from the sexual organs but from the larynx. Human beings will then have gained the capacity to speak their children out.
Another of Steiner's visions which is quite consistent with several other sources of the western esoteric tradition, is that with the final transmutation of the sexual energy into the creative power of the voice will come the end of death: physical immortality. The end of the sexual organs means the end of the separation of human beings into two sexes. In the gospel of Philip, one of the most exciting of the Gnostic gospels, it is unequivocally stated that if 'the woman' had not been separated from 'the man', she would not have to die with 'the man', and it is the separation of the sexes that caused the beginning of death. The same text further indicates that as long as Eve was in Adam, there was no death. It is when she was separated from Adam that death began. If 'the man' becomes whole again, it will be the end of death.
This can be put in parallel with the gospel of Thomas, in which Jesus tells his disciples that it is by making the two one that they will become the sons of man, and move mountains by saying,
"Mountain, move!"
Then the 'lost Word', on which the Masonic tradition is based, will have been recovered, and the Temple rebuilt forever.
The alchemists often defined their art as a way of speeding up the natural processes of evolution of nature. For instance they considered that all the metals were on their way to becoming gold, and that by transmuting base metals into gold one does nothing other than achieve within a short time what nature would otherwise take a long time to accomplish. I will have several occasions in this book and others of the Clairvision Corpus to come back to the inner significance of the gold of the alchemists. According to them, their gold was 'no common gold'. At this stage we could use this concept of 'speeding up' to define inner alchemy: inner alchemy aims at achieving now, transformations that humankind will only complete much later in its natural course of evolution.




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