The Power of Karma In the Foundation Stone Meditation

"...if a person is destined by his karma to encounter another person on earth, even if that one was born in New Zealand, and he himself in Paris or Berlin, this not withstanding, his life will take its course from birth in such a way that thisencounter will absolutely occur at the very time and location as demanded by the necessity of their joint karma.

Not only the external circumstances but likewise the activity of muscles and limbs be such that the person in question, whether he wants to or not, will a the specific moment be at the very bus stop where he cannot but meet the other person who is karmically connected to him, even if the possibility of this happening amounts to seconds and from the standpoint of the theory of possibility is equal to zero.....In the Foundation Stone Meditation the following lines of its first segment indicate such a 'karma of necessity':

'For the Father-Spirits of the Heights holds sway,
In Depths of Worlds begetting Being,
Seraphim, Cherubim, Thrones,
Let there ring out from the Heights,
What in the Depths is echoed.'
Rudolf Steiner-Foundation Stone Meditation

"These words state that this level of karma belongs among the facts of human existence and cannot be changed....

Through the of the Beings of the first Hierarchy, the Will of the Father in the Heights inevitably turns into existence in the world's depths, meaning this will becomes reality extending even to Earth's physical matter. The Creator-Word spoken by the spirits of the First Hierarchy rings out in the world's depths as a mighty echo and forms the totality of mankind's earthly destiny. One can therefore say that that the whole terrestrial destiny is a kind of 'echo' of the First Hierarchy's activity in the region of world karma."
Sergei Prokofieff

Herein is an example of the deeper meaning inherent and specific in each line of the Foundation Stone Meditation. In this case the nature of human and world karmic destiny and the role of the First Hierarchy in this karma. Linked with the poetic structure and meter and this Meditation is seen for what it is: a vast initiation mantra, manifesting and invoking its own mystery truth and knowledge