Esoteric Lesson

Our way of expressing ourselves is often imprecise and inaccurately reflects even what happens on the physical plane. For example, comparing the sprouting of flowers and greenery in spring with birth, and the withering of leaves and flowers in autumn with death, is a form of expression that an esotericist should not use, because it does not reflect what actually happens in nature. We can gain a true understanding of this if we compare this process in spring with our own. The awakening of the morning. Just as we return to a new day, to our old joys and sorrows, strengthened and refreshed, from a dark subconsciousness into which we had sunk, so do the spiritual beings who bring forth the green vegetation of the earth from the darkness into which the seed had sunk into the bosom of the earth in autumn. When we give ourselves over to these thoughts in spring, we come closer to the spirit of the earth and enter the spiritual worlds in the right way. We will then perceive the spiritual behind all natural phenomena. When we see a flash of lightning split a tree, we should think of the archangelic being, and when we hear rolling thunder, we should think of a spiritual being from the worlds of sounding light, of the spirits of personality. We cannot achieve this through general talk of “union with the divine within us,” for it is not within us that we will find the new, the higher: outside of us lie the worlds into which we must consciously enter.