43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

You could therefore easily form an idea of how it is impossible for such beings to use such a brain or such a physical body as we have. They must use an etheric body, because a human body and a human brain only form thoughts in time, whereas these beings do not form thoughts in time and have all wisdom as if by themselves. Wisdom is within them. They cannot possibly think wrong things, cannot err, because the course of thought shoots into them as an immediate inspiration. Therefore, those personalities who could approach these dhyanic or angelic beings, who stood opposite them, had consciousness: There they stand face to face with certain wisdom! So even in ancient Egypt, when a human being who was a teacher or king faced his spiritual leader, he knew that the commandment he gave and the truth he spoke were directly correct and could not be wrong. - This was again felt by those to whom these truths were transmitted, who had received them from these clairvoyant teachers, for they could speak in such a way that one believed to receive from their words what came down from the spiritual world. In short, it was a direct stream up to the higher hierarchies.