Our in­ner or­gan of speech is not only the natu­ral or­gan for the ar­ticu­la­tion of speech but also our natu­ral or­gan, our per­fect tool, for the ar­ticu­la­tion of any thought. It is in­deed our smithy of thoughts, and has all the at­trib­utes of a real smithy to shape our thoughts in their di­ver­sity and to pre­sent them to our senses which in­ces­santly sur­vey our mind.

On a subtle level of our in­ner ac­tiv­ity – the same level which we de­fined as the level on which mu­sic is cre­ated – our in­ner breath is pumped into the ma­te­rial of our mind with the help of the warmth of our feel­ing; this heats the sur­face of our mind and raises its flexi­bil­ity – as it hap­pens with metal in the forge of a smithy.

Once the mind, through the skilled hand of our in­tel­lect – in co­or­di­na­tion with the for­ma­tive force of our feel­ing and the for­ma­tive force of our un­der­stand­ing – has reached the de­sired shape, it is cooled by the un­der­stand­ing as­pect of our in­tel­lect and hard­ens: the thought gains its fixed form.

Now the thought is fin­ished and con­tains all the at­trib­utes nec­es­sary for our sen­sory per­cep­tion.
Our sense of sight sur­veys the thought and ex­tracts its outer shape – the vis­ual as­pect;
our sense of taste tastes the thought and feeds on it, and our sense of smell sniffs at the thought from all sides.

But our un­der­stand­ing, too, ex­am­ines the thought with re­spect to its ana­lyti­cally com­pre­hen­si­ble val­ues, and our feel­ing traces the com­mon basis of the at­trib­utes of the thought.

If this seems un­likely, one must re­call what hap­pens dur­ing dream­ing: dur­ing the dream one thinks; the thoughts are formed from within the mind by the in­ner or­gan of speech.
Si­mul­ta­ne­ously, the dreamer – the dreamer’s self-ex­peri­ences, and it is again the self of the dreamer, who hears in the dream, and this hear­ing comes about through his sense of hear­ing be­cause in a dream the sense of hear­ing sur­veys the dreamed thought. So, the dreamer does not hear out­side, but inside.
And in the same dream the sense of sight sur­veys the same dreamed thought just as the sense of hear­ing does, and it com­mu­ni­cates what it sees to the self of the dreamer.
And no one will doubt that this “seeing” takes place only inside since dur­ing dream­ing the eyes are closed.

In the same way also the other friends of per­cep­tion are ac­tive: the sense of touch, the sense of smell, and the sense of taste. To­gether, they all amuse them­selves on the fair­ground of our dream­ing state of con­scious­ness.

And the great or­gan­izer, the self of the dreamer, sends its cus­to­di­ans of or­der: the as­pects of the in­tel­lect – through which it dis­tin­guishes be­tween the sen­sory per­cep­tions: be­tween past and fu­ture, be­tween now and just be­fore, be­tween high and low, be­tween blue and green, be­tween sweet and salty, be­tween stinging smoke and the mild fragrance of lilac, be­tween soft cush­ions and hard rock, be­tween the sound of drums and the chirping of the cricket on a blade of grass beside the large bridge across which a train is rumbling.