Compensating Spirits and Disturbances in World Order

GA 266II — 16 January 1912, Zurich

Esoteric Lesson

When people do not behave in accordance with the development of the world, they disrupt the world order. Certain spirits must compensate for these disturbances.

When people are “out of themselves,” a type of Luciferic being must make up for this disturbance. This particular type is called Samael. People feel as if they are two, as if a second personality is walking beside them. This personality sometimes says things that they might have said years ago, but which now seem strange to them. In the vision, they see a human-like figure.

When a person lies or is dishonest with themselves (for example, thinking that they came to Zurich solely for the lectures, but in reality came because they wanted to meet a certain person who was also there), the spirit Azazel must compensate for this disturbance in the development of the world. Here, the person feels as if they are being whipped on their back, with pressure in their back (throat). In the vision, they see a bird-like figure.

When a person does not participate in their environment, is not interested in the things going on around them, does not pay attention to their surroundings, the spirit Azael must compensate for this disturbance. The effect that people feel as a result of this lack of attention manifests itself in a feeling of drowning, of drowning in a spiritual sea when waking up or falling asleep. They see a lion-like figure in their vision.

If a person has no faith in karma, if he does not surrender himself to karma, if he does not accept with devotion and courage the terrible and difficult things that happen to him, if he does not recognize them as right and accept them courageously despite the pain, then the spirit Ahazel [Mehazael] must restore this disturbance to harmony with the world order. Here, the person feels bound to the earth, as if heavily chained to it, and sees a bull-like figure in the vision.

Even if our life is an inextricable maya, we must not forget that we are born from a divine source.