The fact that the mu­si­cal crea­tion, as it sounds out­side, stimu­lates the mu­sic lis­tener’s mind to reverberate, is now but an ob­jec­tive proc­ess to the mu­sic lis­tener, which takes place all by it­self.

How­ever, what the mu­sic lis­tener reg­is­ters most with his alert at­ten­tion is not so much the ele­ment of sound in his mind, but the power of his in­ner form­ing fac­ulty.
And now he feels him­self to be the crea­tor of the mu­si­cal poetry, of the poetry of his life, of the en­tire crea­tion even.

This up­surge of an in­ner feel­ing of power puts the mu­sic lis­tener sub­jec­tively – out of his in­ner­most knowl­edge – in the situa­tion of a crea­tor, and leaves him less dis­tinctly in the po­si­tion of a lis­tener.
And while be­fore his lis­ten­ing domi­nated, now it is his cre­at­ing that grows in im­por­tance.

This to­tal mu­si­cal ex­peri­ence is the very per­sonal se­cret of an in­di­vid­ual mu­sic lis­tener in this par­ticu­lar phase of knowl­edge, and in this moment he knows only him­self and his own crea­tion, mov­ing so har­mo­ni­ously in such mul­ti­fari­ous ways.
The outer mu­si­cal world, then, is of no sig­nifi­cance any longer, nor has it any in­flu­ence on him any more.

Through­out his na­ture the crea­tive mu­sic lis­tener feels him­self a free and crea­tive man, godlike.
Now he is a pow­er­ful ruler over his en­tire sound­ing sur­round­ings; for, in a free flow of thoughts he cre­ates them, sus­tains them, and lets them decay – at his own dis­cre­tion, just for his own joy, and as the natu­ral emanation of his very own, newly-gained, in­ner­most joy of life.

Im­meas­ur­able worlds of mu­sic he now raises play­fully be­fore his wit­nessing mind.
In the ma­te­rial sphe­res of his sound-space the motif-spaces, and within them the crea­tures, come into be­ing and step into the light of his own in­ner world-day.

And be­ing their crea­tor, he wel­comes them as his chil­dren and fills them with new life again and again.
Here, the new­born mu­sic crea­tor is a kind fa­ther and ruler over the world of his chil­dren – but also their loving mother; or he puts him­self in the place of all the crea­tures cre­ated by him and thus ex­peri­ences the mul­ti­plic­ity of their ac­tiv­ity in unity.

On the level of the har­mony he cre­ates the world as a whole with the al­mighty force of his in­ner­most for­ma­tive power.
And sud­denly he feels him­self the per­sonal fa­ther of the whole world.