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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! 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