Mastering Inner Entities: Pentagram and Hexagram Training
GA 266I — 6 November 1906, Munich
Esoteric Lesson
A = Past
U = Present
M = Future
Occult training leads people to freedom. It enables them to become masters of the various entities that constantly flow through their bodies, entering and leaving them, by becoming their companions.
Their names are: for the physical body, phantoms; for the etheric body, ghosts; for the astral body, demons; for the ego, spirits.
In order to learn to control them, man must form a skeleton, a solid framework, for the etheric body, just as the physical body has a skeleton. This skeleton is the pentagram for the etheric body:
a. Head point (thinking)1 b. Arms (feeling) — c. Feet (willing)
Similarly, a skeleton must be formed for the astral body, which is the hexagram:
a. Head point b. Arms c. Ears d.?2
To achieve this, the following four principles must be developed:
- Learn to be silent, and you will gain power.
- Surrender to power, and you will gain will.
- Surrender to will, and you will gain feeling.
- Surrender to feeling, and you will gain knowledge.
These are the four stages through which human beings ascend.
Every suppression gives a certain power.
The spirits and entities that constantly dominate humans and make them unfree: if they know them, they no longer need to be their slaves.
Attention to oneself is the first thing the student must learn and practice.