Esoteric Lesson

Just as the air surrounds us, so does the spiritual environment, which since the event at Golgotha has been the Christ light and has now become so condensed that we can take it in. We must take it in with the body of knowledge so that it is not killed, but works alive within us. A Rosicrucian saying goes: Man is immortal if he wants to be. The body of knowledge is the immortal part that we take with us beyond death. Rosicrucian esotericism has shaped every word in such a way that it develops the powers of logical thinking and reason, and thus everything that research communicates from the spiritual worlds must be grasped and examined. No blind faith should rule in human beings; blind faith in authority kills logical thinking and the spiritual in human beings. Lucifer is a tragic figure who knows that his power over humanity will end with the Earth. All pain and suffering in the world is Luciferic. Human beings used to be in the air circle of the Earth; it was only through Lucifer that they fell into the watery and earthy elements: this is the basis of the image of the Fall. Without Lucifer, human beings would have instinctively woven the body of knowledge into their three other members. The plan of freedom was inserted as the second plan of Earth's development. On the Sabbath, the gods rested—this is to be taken literally, since man must now continue working on his higher members himself; he must build up his body of knowledge himself through theosophical thoughts and insights, just as the gods on Saturn created our physical body through thoughts and mental images. The clairvoyance of the present time is the emergence of spiritual forms into human consciousness; human beings form them by taking in the Christ light into their bodies of knowledge. Human beings were not allowed to eat from the tree of life in Paradise because then they would have remained in Lucifer's realm on Earth with their knowledge. Now that the Tree of Life has become the Cross, dead wood from which new life—the roses—sprouts, he is to eat from the Tree of Life and drink the juice of the roses. In Christo morimur means to merge into the spiritual environment of the earth through meditation. Christ only needed to come to earth once because humanity has progressed since then and will be able to see him differently in the future.