Esoteric Lesson

So we should always be on guard against these two forces; and when they show themselves in our feelings, we should immediately be alert and focus our attention on ourselves. If we are in a bad mood and have always fought vigilantly against it, then the moment will come when we feel our body as if it were broken, that it hurts us to the core, and that will be the proof to us that we have triumphed. And if we are inclined to fanaticism, as described here, and we have fought courageously against it, then a feeling comes over us as if we no longer have legs to stand on, as if our body is too light for the ground to hold it; and that is the proof that we have triumphed in the battle with the spirits of light.