Stellar script

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The nightly starry sky in summer in a south-easterly direction.

The stellar script or stellar language, which expresses itself outwardly in the starry sky in the constellations, in the relationships of the planets to each other and to the signs of the zodiac, speaks, when viewed with the imaginative gaze, in powerful inspirations of the secrets of the soul and spiritual world.

Egypt and the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus, the great initiate of ancient Egypt, made these inspirations fruitful for the transformation of the physical world. Mathematics and geometry came into being in this way in their first beginnings, and even writing, which was initially still a pictographic script, was copied from the stellar script. In the letter script, the consonants correspond to the signs of the zodiac and the vowels to the planets.

„If the Egyptian wanted to express in a special script, to paint in his own way the way in which Isis relates to Osiris, he expressed it through the movement of the sun and moon in the sky, and the other spiritual powers through the relationships of the other stars. Above all, the zodiac with its relative rest and the movement of the planets through the zodiacal images came into consideration. The ancient Egyptian saw in everything that was revealed in the zodiac the way in which he could best express in a spiritual writing what moved his soul. He knew: I cannot take anything from what is on earth to express what man is called to do when he follows the Isis force to Osiris; that, if it is to be described, it must be drawn from the constellation of the stars. - This led to the fact that the great sage, who must be thought to have existed in ancient times, had, according to the Egyptians, above all the deepest clairvoyant insight into this relationship of mankind to the universe, which has just been sketched out, and that he expressed in the highest terms what the constellation of the stars was in relation to these spiritual forces and their happenings and the facts playing between them. In stellar language he expressed what was happening. If, for example, it was to be expressed in this way how Osiris related to Isis, it could be told to the people in the form of the legend - exoterically. For those who were then led into the initiation, the more exact relationship was expressed in the relationship of the light emanating from the sun, reflected by the moon and passing in strange proportions from the new moon through the quarters to the full moon. One rightly saw in this something similar to the relationship of the Isis-force of the human soul to Osiris. And then from these relations in the heavens and their forms was taken what may really be regarded as the archetypes of writing. For as little as men still recognise this in writing, so much must one say: in the consonants one has to see reproductions of the signs of the zodiac, of that which is relatively dormant. And in the relationship of the vowels to the consonants we have reproductions of the relationship of the planets and their moving forces to the zodiac. One must say that the written signs have been brought down from heaven.

This is how the ancient Egyptians felt about Hermes, whose teachers in turn were the powers that spoke from heaven and announced that which lives out in the souls of men. Yes, even more: what is lived out in human deeds, even in all everyday activities of life, what is lived out in activities such as the art of field measurement, for which mathematical sciences, geometry - which Pythagoras then learned from the Egyptians - were necessary, was traced back by the ancient Egyptians to the wisdom of Hermes, who saw, as it were, in all earthly-spatial relationships something like images of the heavenly relationships and depicted the heavenly relationships in stellar writing. Hermes brought stellar script down to mathematics and geometry and taught the Egyptians to find something in the stars that was happening on earth. We know that the whole of Egyptian life was connected with the floods of the Nile, with what the Nile brought down from the mountainous regions that lay to the south of Egypt. But we can also judge from this how necessary it was to know in a certain way in advance when these floods of the Nile could occur, when the transformation of the natural conditions could properly occur in the course of a year. The Egyptians also took their time calculation from the stars in the sky. When Sirius, the Dog Star, became visible in the sign of Cancer, they knew that the sun would soon come into that sign, from which its rays would, as it were, conjure up what the Nile and its floods would bring to the earth's surface. So they knew: Sirius is the watchful one, he announces what we have to expect. That was part of their star-world clock. In order to cultivate and rule the land in the right way, which was necessary for the outer life, they gratefully looked up to the Dog Star. And they looked up from where, in ancient times, they had been taught that the movement of the stars was the expression of the world clock.

For such and similar circumstances, the Egyptians sought advice in the writing of the stars. In Thoth or Hermes they saw that spirit who, according to the old traditions, made the most ancient records of worldly wisdom, and who, according to what he received as inspiration from the stellar script, formed the physical letters, who taught men agriculture, geometry, the art of measuring fields - in short, taught everything that men need for physical life. But all physical life is nothing other than the body of a spiritual life. But the spiritual life is connected with the whole universe, and out of this Hermes was inspired.“ (Lit.:GA 60, p. 366ff)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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