Seal No. 1: The mystery of the creative word The mystery of the creative word represents comprehensively the entire earthly evolution of man. The images in this and the other seals can be found in “The Revelation of St. John” or the Apocalypse. “And I turned to hear the sounds which reached me; then I saw seven golden lamps, and in the midst of the lamps one like unto the Son of Man, in a long garment… with eyes as a flame…and feet of living fire… and a voice like the sound of many waters. And in his right hand were seven stars, and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.” “Here,” Steiner writes, “in general images, most far-reaching mysteries of human evolution are indicated… Every sign and form in the seals is significant… This continous development from the beginning to the end of the earth reveals itself to the seer, when he sees on the astral plane the archetype of evolving man, as it is reproduced in the first seal.”