Esoteric Lesson

Last time we heard how effective it is for our soul to let our imagination work on us, that the outer world around us is maya, that only the reversed image brings us the truth. We can go even further in this imagination. When we look at a person's face, we must think of it in reverse: everywhere there is an elevation, a depression, dark hair is light, light hair is dark, etc. But we must also think of the color of the face in reverse, and not just replace light colors with dark ones, but imagine the individual patches of color that we see in their complementary colors, for example, a red patch as green, etc. If we really immerse ourselves in this, the colors will tell us something about the characteristics of the person in question. A light green—already thought of as a complementary color—would mean that the person cannot detach themselves from everything closely connected with their physicality. A dark green indicates a striving for the spiritual, blue a particularly strong striving for the spiritual. These colors then become transparent to us. These are the colors of the etheric body. All this only works if we feel it inwardly.