In our proc­ess of gain­ing knowl­edge in mu­sic, again and again we looked for more com­pre­hen­sive truth.
Prac­ti­cally, this meant that in the field of our feel­ing and un­der­stand­ing we were aspiring to the state of greater and greater ful­fil­ment.

The an­swer to this ques­tion we then re­ceived on a cor­re­spond­ingly higher level of mu­si­cal cog­ni­tion, in the ex­peri­ence of deeper, qui­eter hap­pi­ness in our feel­ing, and in the ex­peri­ence of more rest­ful alert­ness on the level of our un­der­stand­ing.

So, in this proc­ess of know­ing, we started off from a given status quo of our knowl­edge, or of our ful­fil­ment re­spec­tively, and step by step we aspired to higher knowl­edge, or ful­fil­ment re­spec­tively; we strove for cer­tain goals and reached them, and we strode on to the next goal, and reached it as well.

One by one, we went through dif­fer­ent strata of knowl­edge, and we ar­rived at cor­re­spond­ingly dif­fer­ent stages of in­tel­lec­tual and emo­tional ful­fil­ment. We saw the strata of knowl­edge as be­ing sepa­rated in space, and we ex­peri­enced our stages of knowl­edge as be­ing sepa­rated in time; and be­tween our dif­fer­ent stages of knowl­edge there was a new phase in our proc­ess of know­ing, and it meant an in­crease of our state of ful­fil­ment.

Now, in the field of the har­mony, we real­ize that the de­sire, the proc­ess of its ful­fil­ment, and the com­pletely ful­filled de­sire are one; and we real­ize that this phe­nome­non is based on the na­ture of this in­fi­nite force-field of the har­mony – based on the na­ture of our own pure self-aware­ness.

Now, in this per­fect world of ex­peri­ence so new to us, we find that with our ques­tion for truth the com­pre­hen­sive an­swer is al­ready given, that with a de­sire for ful­fil­ment si­mul­ta­ne­ously ful­fil­ment it­self arises over­whelm­ingly in our world of ex­peri­ence – with­out a sepa­ra­tion in space or in time. For this su­preme mu­si­cal proc­ess of know­ing so new to us pro­ceeds com­pletely be­yond space and time.

While, in the field of the mu­si­cal sound-space, we still ex­peri­enced the ques­tion and the an­swer for the mu­si­cal mean­ing as very dis­tinct from one an­other, these two com­po­nents of gain­ing knowl­edge be­gan to grow closer to­gether in our in­ner space of imagi­na­tion as we ex­peri­enced the motif-space; and in the se­quence-space then, ques­tion and an­swer had al­ready come quite close to each other.
In the in­fi­nite space of the har­mony the ques­tion and the an­swer for the mu­si­cal mean­ing melted into unity, and we real­ized that this level of our pure self-aware­ness is the ideal, pure field of our ful­fil­ment of de­sires.