Esoteric Lesson

Let us suppose, for example, that someone — it need not be a meditator — has seen his double. It may be, for example, that he had planned to go to a party in the evening where someone intended to poison him. Now he enters a half-darkened room and sees himself there. Under the impression of this experience, he does not go to the party and is therefore not poisoned. Now, the form in which the experience appeared is not at all what matters. The most important thing is that the spiritual being that accompanies the person from incarnation to incarnation wanted to make an impression on him. There is such a being, belonging to the hierarchy of the Angeloi, which is called the guardian angel of human beings in religious creeds. This being cannot, in order to impress human beings, influence their thoughts in such a way that they would have known in their minds: you must not go to that party tonight. This cannot be because our thoughts, all thoughts except those produced by spiritual science, belong to the physical plane and therefore cannot be influenced by the supersensible.