42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

This simple experiment consists of looking back a little more often in your life, as you grow older and older, on what you have experienced and done, thinking back a little on what you perhaps did in your youth, what you did, did or said at a later age, how you perceived this or that event that affected you, and so on. If you think about it once, think about it more often, think about it every time a few years have passed, then you can make a strange discovery. This discovery is not only made by the person who is in the midst of ordinary life, but to an even greater extent by the person who has already undergone a little spiritual development. And to an even greater extent even the initiate makes the same experience. We make a curious discovery here. When we ask ourselves: What did you do or say at this or that time of your life? - Then it very often turns out that you have done a whole lot of things - you come up with things like that - that you only really understand now. You did things seven or eight years ago, or perhaps twenty or twenty-one years ago, that you now know for sure: your mind is only now reaching the point where you can understand the things you did back then!