Patience, Meditation, and Backward Remembrance in Esoteric Development

GA 266I — 20 June 1907, Kassel

Esoteric Lesson

The student should always remember the principle: I can wait patiently. Impatient striving (efforts) does not bring progress. Whatever each person does will bear fruit in the future. This promise was given by the great masters. The student should meditate on the first formula every morning at the beginning of the day. Before doing so, they should separate themselves from all worries and thoughts. When a person rises at daybreak, they come out of the astral world and feel restored.¹ They will feel calm. Then comes the first meditation. Do not think about the words, but let them flow into you. They contain the highest powers, for they are not put together arbitrarily, but with the highest wisdom. Meditate on everything figuratively. Finally, look back. Do not look back on important things, but on the contrary on unimportant things, and that from the end to the beginning. Memory is the bridge that leads us to the invisible chronicle. We have streets, fields, flowers, stones, and so on in our review in such a way that we either recall them in our memory or look back at them correctly with our eyes. This happens in the previous order of time. But there is also another way of looking back: as if the passage of time were in space. The so-called memory is lost, but something higher is gained. Backward, because in the higher worlds everything runs from the end to the beginning, and this is how the student must be prepared. Looking back should be done without regret, because regret is egoism. — See and think everything in such a way that it does not depend on the sensory world; imagine the former moon not with sensory means, but in such a way that a person who considers matter alone to be real would say it is a fantasy.

The other example is the three Logoi: sound is primary to the Holy Spirit, light to the Son, and fragrance to the Father. They are clearer in the other worlds. And here they are detached from things, and world sound, light, and fragrance permeate space. This first imagination is the way in which we are led to higher realities. This is only a brief summary.