The Three Lights: Wisdom, Beauty, Strength

If we now bear in mind that we are always surrounded by this spirit of the world, then we also know that we stand before it as we truly are, not as we want to appear before the world, through dishonesty and untruthfulness. In the higher worlds, there is nothing that could hide our vices from us. There we stand completely abandoned by all that we would like to surround ourselves with here as deception. Lies, deception, dishonesty have no access to this world. There are no words for them there, since these qualities do not exist there. And if a person is really so bad that he brings no good qualities from his incarnation into the higher worlds, he would not even enter the lower Devachan, but would have to re-embody himself as soon as possible. Therefore, before he can ascend, man must discard his vices in Kamaloka, because only good is received in the higher worlds; there is no evil there. What man has worked out as good and true is received there; he takes up his bad qualities, desires, passions and faults again as his karma, which he must work off. The second flame is an image of the true beauty that dwells in the lower Devachan plan and radiates into people as true piety. The truly pious soul power looks up into the sky and looks at the stars as an expression of the divine spiritual beings weaving behind them, and the deepest piety penetrates through such a soul. And at sunset, it feels: Yes, now the sun is sinking, darkness is setting in – but in this darkness another sun can rise, shining brighter and more radiantly than the physical sun. The soul can rise, the midnight sun. So we must learn to think, to feel in every moment, that what radiates down from the spiritual world is felt here as true piety, and lives there in Devachan as beauty. But this is something different from what is called “beauty” on earth. This “true beauty” of the devachanic world is hidden from us as if by a veil. We do not see it until we have prepared ourselves through true devotion, through true purity, through absolute truth here on earth, to see it in its splendor up there in devachan. Everything we believe we see as “beauty” before we are worthy to enter this sphere of beauty, what we may see as angelic figures, as sublime images – that is all deception. This transforms into ugliness when we conquer deception. We only come to true beauty through true devotion.