# Self, Humanity, and Divinity: Esoteric Foundations

## GA 266I — 21 December 1904, Berlin

### Esoteric Lesson

1. I acknowledge myself, or I am. 2. I acknowledge humanity, or humanity is. 3. I acknowledge the deity, or God is.

1. Take responsibility for every thought, every feeling, and every action. Every moment we experience in this way brings us forward.

2. What would I be without other people? Helpless. Roads are paved by others ... When I get up, people have already worked for me.

My karma is linked to that of other people ... I have helped to kill them because I may not have improved them in a previous life. Every penny I have more, someone else has less. I owe my education to others. From the first moment of my life, people have taken care of me. I also share in the good deeds of (all) humanity. —

3. All souls flowed from a unity of the Godhead into the Lemurian race. Humanity has, in a sense, been given a name by the Godhead, which it should restore as fully as possible after the disappearance of the special existence (in the middle of the sixth root race).

The sign and the word.