Esoteric Lesson

Our thinking, which we carry out with the help of the brain, is not creative, but destructive, both for our nerves and for our etheric body. This is the actual organ for progressive development. During the day, it is damaged by the destructive effect of the astral body. During the night, the physical and etheric bodies must be freed from this destructive influence of the astral body and restored by creative thoughts. The same applies to the astral body itself. Only when we feel ourselves to be part of the human hierarchy, i.e., when we think world thoughts, do we ourselves act creatively rather than destructively. Through the thousandfold repetition of such world thoughts, we create content such as that given to us in meditation—first of all, the lotus flowers. In this way, we also work into the etheric body in the sense of the hierarchies. The images and words of the meditation content are taken from the sensory world, but through constant repetition and deepening, which penetrates into the essence hidden behind the words and images, the words and images shed their sensory nature. And when one advances so far as to rest in the essence hidden in the depths of words and images, then one enters another world through meditation. Deepening oneself in thought: the thought thinks the thought helps to achieve this. Knowledge is always referred to as light; wisdom as a kind of fluid element, water (occult).