Esoteric Lesson

It has often been said that our present time is a very important but also very critical period, in which great spiritual currents are flowing down into our physical world. They must serve to bring a new seed to humanity, so that its development can continue. At the same time, influences are flowing down from the past, influences that made earlier development fruitful. Our task now as esotericists should be to feel ourselves fixed in a center, as in the new seed, and not to allow ourselves to be carried away or confused by any side currents. At this very moment, a new vanguard has formed, serving to reinforce the already existing Luciferic influences. These are spirits who are not incarnated at present, but who were contemporaries of the followers of Johannes Tauler and Meister Eckhart, namely the Begards, who themselves belonged to a mystical movement at that time and also did much good for their time, who now send their impulses from the spiritual world and as such form a powerful vanguard for the Luciferic beings who remained behind during the events on Golgotha, who had to remain behind in order to intervene again later in the development. We already know from earlier communications that the Luciferic beings also bring good, and from this point of view it must be pointed out that we owe our memory and our entire power of imagination to these beings. What would it be like if we forgot all the fateful events of our youth and earlier years, or if we imagined them as if they were happening in the present? Then we would live in hallucinations, then we would become confused within ourselves.