Esoteric Lesson

We will realize later that it is wise and good that the world is maya, illusion. If everything were true reality, we ourselves would no longer seek truth or perfection; we could not develop abilities, and since there would be nothing wrong, there could be no vice. We could not educate ourselves to virtue, we could not develop freely at all; since we would always be living within the active, ruling divinity, we would never have the opportunity to seek true knowledge out of ourselves, out of our own freedom, and to dive into the depths of reality. We would cease to seek God. “Seeking God” has a deep biblical meaning that can only be understood esoterically. At the end of the sixth day of creation it says: “And God rested on the seventh day.” God had been active during the Saturn, Sun, and Moon evolutions, and He rested on the seventh day after the world was created; then God was nowhere to be found until the horizon of our Earth's evolution. He was invisible, and that has a profound meaning.