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With all these experiences of sounds and colors and so on, we must tell ourselves that they do not come from the spiritual, but from our own inner being, from our own ego, which is surrounded by a sea of desires and passions, just as Noah's ark was surrounded by the sea. And we must live in the conviction that all these experiences and phenomena are not spiritual. By telling ourselves this clearly and relentlessly, we must, as it were, give up our ego, give up our ego's desire for experiences, let it fly away, as the dove was let out of Noah's Ark and did not return.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Discernment and the Rosicrucian Path to Higher Worlds","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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