Esoteric Lesson

When, after meditating conscientiously and well, we devote ourselves to our ordinary daily activities, such as washing and dressing, our consciousness is focused on these activities. It may happen that we have the feeling that we have performed our activities mechanically, without our thoughts being involved. And when we reflect on what our thoughts were doing, we may have the feeling of a faint dream, as if we had not thought, but as if what passed through our soul had thought within us. When we observe something like this, we increasingly get the feeling that something is happening within us to which we can apply the mantric words: “It thinks me.” If we say or think these words in everyday life at every opportunity that brings us a quiet moment, we will become aware that they help and promote our soul life. There is only one thing we must strictly observe: when we say these words to ourselves, even if we only think them, a feeling of piety will arise, and we must connect this feeling with the words every time we say or think them. It would be wrong not to say the words at all in order to avoid saying them in the wrong frame of mind; rather, we must practice always associating this feeling of piety with them. We will then get the feeling that what is thinking within us is related to our I, that the high beings who gave it to us are thinking within us. This should be made clear to exotericists in the words of the Mystery Play: “World thoughts live in your thinking.” (For esotericists, this is expressed in the mantra: It thinks me.)