Esoteric Lesson

Last time we discussed the fact that in the outer world everything is maya and that everything must be imagined in a certain sense as being exactly the opposite. And we emphasized how the esotericist must learn to live in such a consciousness that he regards everything he perceives around him in the sense mentioned above. When he sees a flower, he should think of it in reverse; when he hears a sound coming from the right, he should consider that the sound is actually coming from the left. He can go even further and consider the same thing in many other cases. Where it is dark, he should tell himself that it is actually light; where there is light, there is actually darkness. If we anchor this feeling of the reversal of the outer Maya completely within ourselves, if all our thinking is directed toward it, then we will experience great transformations in ourselves that will lead us to the truth. But if we want to make all this clear to ourselves through mere thinking, then we will be led into great dangers. The esotericist knows that all symbols and all esoteric teachings can contain a certain danger if they are misunderstood and misapplied, but we esotericists are not little children. Anyone who has tried to apply what was said here last time will have felt as if the ground had been pulled out from under their feet. And when one tries to understand these things intellectually, it is as if two mirrors were placed opposite each other, so that an endless repetition of reflections occurs. The danger then arises that the mind will dance along with this endless repetition, as in a whirlwind dance. Common sense then says: My mind is at a standstill! Only an unhealthy soul can be drawn into the whirlwind.