“Know yourself” – this is the inscription on the pediment of the temple at Delphi. But what is this “I” that needs to be known? Your shortcomings, your qualities? No, this does not mean knowing yourself. To know oneself is to know the various bodies of which a person consists (physical, etheric, astral, mental, causal, buddhic, atmic), and the needs of these various bodies. The initiates of Antiquity insisted on the need to know oneself because this knowledge opens up the greatest opportunities for advancement, progress, and success. As long as a person does not know the needs of his higher “I,” he always gives everything to his sated physical body, while the hungry and thirsty soul and spirit suffocate and die. “Know thyself.” This is all science and all wisdom: to know yourself, to find yourself again, to achieve the merger of your lower self and your higher self. The symbol of the Initiate who has managed to find himself is a snake biting its tail. The snake is represented by a straight or sinusoidal line. A snake biting its tail is a circle, boundlessness, infinity, eternity. The person who has succeeded in realizing the symbol of the circle enters a world where there are no more limitations, no more division between the higher and the lower, for all the powers, riches and virtues possessed by the true Self are dissolved in the small self. The big and the small form one, and man becomes a deity.