Esoteric Lesson

We then learn to regard the higher part of our self as the most spiritual part, which draws the soul forces from within itself in order to fill itself with divine light. In ancient Atlantean times, the atmosphere was filled with such a kind of mist that the sun could not shine through it, and human beings did not yet have eyes like we do now to distinguish objects. Only gradually did a huge, bright disc filled with colors penetrate this mist, filling the entire atmosphere, and as the disc radiated more light, the eyes were formed according to the light. Thus, the spiritual part of our being is to become luminous like a sun and fill the spiritual environment with light, in which the beings we call the spiritual hierarchies then become visible. This is what the Egyptians called “seeing the sun at midnight,” which required a special act on their part because they could not bring it about in the manner described above, but had to be led to see the sun on the other side through the earth in the darkness of night. But we fill ourselves with the spiritual sun and then radiate it again with the organs we might call the spiritual eyes. The beings we then see are the higher gods, and this is what is called seeing the higher and lower gods.