Esoteric Lesson

Now we must also familiarize ourselves with the spirits of light, which, when they remain in their own realm, are also active as healing forces, but when they step outside their realm and enter the realm of the spirits of movement, they bring harm to human beings. This is the case, for example, when a person imagines that he must help humanity if he wants to be completely absorbed in love, while he actually has the desire to rise higher without effort. Then these spirits of light come, penetrate the person, and lead him into fanaticism, so that all his mental images are transformed into untruths. The person thinks that he is a force for good, that he must improve the world. When one falls under the dominion of these spirits, the ego is so completely filled with itself that it can no longer see things outside itself in their proper relation, and finally the person falls into a state in which his body is influenced, and his brain is destroyed. But if he reacts against these forces, tries to understand that everything is only imagination, [if he believes] that he can help others and so on, if he tries much more to divert his energies from this activity of love and to suppress every desire for progress within himself, trusting that the right maturity will come at the right time: then these spirits act as healing forces and bring us step by step closer to the light. They are the ones who help us fall asleep at night and bring us to the light.