{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 266b/1912-06-07/p004","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"How did you come to be here? Where does this urge for esotericism come from? About four thousand years ago, before the events at Golgotha, the etheric body animated the physical body in such a way that forces remained which were not used to sustain the physical body. Esotericism turned to these forces and used them to turn to the spiritual worlds. Then, about 3,000 years ago, all etheric bodies were sunk into the physical body, especially in Greece, and those who developed the highest in the physical realm felt the spiritual world as a realm of shadows. Now, however, the physical body no longer absorbs all the forces of the etheric body; it rejects them. It is in the process of withering away, for we are more than halfway through the Earth's development, and it is only through these forces, which the physical body can no longer absorb, that we can live in the spiritual world.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Etheric Forces, Inner Peace, and Esoteric Development","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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