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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).","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Thought Thinks Thought: Creative Meditation and Supersensible Thinking","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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