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Through thinking as practised in esotericism, however, we enrich this virgin part of our astral body in full consciousness during the day, allowing it to grow and strengthen until it finally becomes strong enough to transmit its impressions to the coarse or solid etheric body, so to speak. It imprints them on it like a seal in hot sealing wax. Then, with full, clear daytime consciousness, the spiritual worlds become open to the human being, who can live consciously in the sea of divine thoughts. That is, so to speak, the technique. Then the human being can contemplate God's thoughts in their fullest clarity and purity. He is guided and led to this experience by the Rosicrucian teacher.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Divine Thoughts and Human Development: The Rosicrucian Cosmology","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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