Tau sign
The Tau sign or Tau cross (also Saint Anthony cross), like the closely related Tao sign and the Egyptian Anch, stands for the all-pervading power of the divine Tao, of which people on ancient Atlantis still had extensive knowledge. It has the form of the letter T, whose phonetic value expresses the impact of the creative spirit into the material (in the broadest sense), i.e. created world:
„We can insert here that which the sound t means - Tao, t. You may know that one has a deep reverence for the Tao, t, if one understands what lives within it. This Tao, t, is actually that under which one has to imagine that it represents the important, even the creative, that which also radiates in an indicating way, but in particular radiates from heaven to earth. It is the important ray. So let us say this t: Significantly radiating from above downwards.“ (Lit.:GA 279, p. 65)
Literature
- Charles William Heckethorn: The secret societies of all ages and countries. Richard Bentley, London, 1875 (2 vols.) Vol. I, Vol. II. (Second 1897, Vol. I, Vol. II.) (German language edition Leipzig, 1900, translated by Leopold Katscher)
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Tempellegende und die Goldene Legende, GA 93 (1991)
- Rudolf Steiner: Zur Geschichte und aus den Inhalten der erkenntniskultischen Abteilung der Esoterischen Schule von 1904 bis 1914, GA 265 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-2650-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Aus den Inhalten der esoterischen Stunden, Band I: 1904 – 1909, GA 266a (1995) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Eurythmie als sichtbare Sprache , GA 279 (1990) English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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