Esoteric Lesson

When we devote ourselves to the facts of occult research brought to us through theosophy, what are we actually doing? What is it that we are taking in? It is nothing other than the thoughts of the Deity, which have existed from the beginning and according to which all things have come into being, the archetypes of everything that has come into existence. If we could do nothing but take in the thoughts of the Deity with our intellect, it would be merely sober reflection. We would think the truths with our intellect, but it would leave us cold. It would be similar to the feeling we would have if we were standing on a high, icy mountain, where no warmth from the world could reach the summit. This is what would happen to our souls if we could only take in the occult facts that are the thoughts of God with our intellect. In the past, in the Lemurian epoch, people took these things in, gave themselves completely to the gods, and the warmth of the spiritual world permeated them, and they felt deeply connected to the spiritual world. In the course of time, intellectual understanding became more and more sober, and feeling became colder and colder. And at the time of the mystery of Golgotha, the soul was already permeated with an icy chill. But at the moment when Christ left the Christ bearer on the cross and gave himself up to the world, he burned through the coldness of the spirit with his holy fire and thereby transformed the spirit into the Holy Spirit.