42. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity II

The human being learns to perceive himself as an ego, to recognize himself as an ego, in that what was previously connected to the higher worlds enters into his ego. From then on, he learns everything through his consciousness, learns to connect himself everywhere with the outside world. He didn't do that before. Things used to be as if they hovered above him like a wonderful dream world. But he also worked from the spirit, worked so deeply into his physicality that he was able to shape his brain from the spirit. I have already pointed out that it is not wrong to say: “Even the wisest man can still learn from a child.” - The greatest masters can learn from children. Why? Because - if I may use the trivial expression - what surrounds the child as an aura provides something like a “telephone connection” to the spiritual hierarchies, to the spiritual world. Something flows from the spiritual worlds into the child's aura, into the human being, and the human being is directly subject to the guidance of the whole spiritual world as an individual being. The spiritual forces from the whole spiritual world flow into the human being. It is they who raise him up, who bring him so far that he overcomes gravity; it is they who form his larynx, who shape his brain so that it becomes a living link for thoughts, feelings and morality. There the whole spiritual world works into the human being.