{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266b/1912-02-23/p009","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"In the previous lesson, we discussed why we should become esotericists; today, I would like to tell you about the true meaning of daily meditation. Meditation has been tested and given to us by the masters of wisdom and harmony of feelings for esotericism. Its power is irrefutable when practiced in the true sense with the utmost devotion. Meditation should be practiced shortly before falling asleep, after banishing from our soul all thoughts that still connect us to the day's life with its joys and pleasures, its worries and troubles. Meditation must be our last thought that we take with us into the other world so that the spiritual beings can connect with us. We immerse ourselves in their etheric bodies, they permeate us with their powers so that we can receive new strength and fresh health from them for the coming day. How often, unfortunately, do many people go into their sleep with thoughts of all kinds of pleasures of everyday material life? These outpourings of thoughts create vibrations that have a repulsive effect on the spiritual beings, and the person thereby works to a high degree against their spiritual and physical development. Just as we immerse ourselves in the spiritual atmosphere in the evening, so too should we not immediately allow ourselves to be overwhelmed in the morning upon awakening by all that filled our lives the previous day with toil and burdens, worries, desires, and passions. Let us push all this aside for a while, let our thoughts linger a little longer in the realms from which we have just emerged; and after a longer or shorter period of practice, we will also feel how this promotes our development, and not only for our inner being, for the radiant power that has flowed into us will also pass from our eyes and hands into our deeds for the good of humanity.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Esoteric Development: Karma, Meditation, and Spiritual Responsibility","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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Die Meditation muß unser letzter Gedanke sein, den wir mit hinübernehmen in die andere Welt, damit die geistigen Wesenheiten sich mit ihnen verbinden können. Wir tauchen unter in ihre Ätherkörper, sie durchdringen uns mit ihren Kräften, damit wir neue Kräfte und frische Gesundheit für den kommenden Tag von ihnen empfangen können. Wie oft gehen leider viele Menschen hinüber in ihr Schlafleben mit Gedanken an allerlei Genüsse des alltäglichen materiellen Lebens. Diese Gedankenausstömungen erzeugen Schwingungen, welche abstoßend auf die geistigen Wesenheiten wirken, und der Mensch wirkt dadurch in hohem Maße seiner geistigen sowohl wie seiner gesundheitlichen Entwicklung entgegen. So wie wir nun des Abends untertauchen in die geistige Atmosphäre, so sollen wir auch wiederum des Morgens beim Erwachen nicht gleich Beschlag nehmen von alledem, was unser Leben am vorigen Tage von Mühen und Lasten, Sorgen, Begierden und Leidenschaften erfüllt hat. 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