Esoteric Lesson

Our modern scholars may smile when they look at the animal worship of the Egyptians from their narrow perspective. We can only be filled with deep reverence, for we know that behind this lies the veneration of those forces of nature that were hidden from human beings. And we look with deep admiration at the high wisdom that underlies all these mysteries. Even though the downward force, the mother force, is already at work in human beings, the father forces are stronger up to this point. If human beings were ruled only by the downward forces — the Christ forces — they would not incarnate on Earth. If, on the other hand, only the upward forces, the planetary forces, were to dominate him, he would always live on earth; there would then be no death.