Esoteric Lesson

Through this awakening etheric body, one gradually learns to experience oneself in an etheric world. In reality, every movement we make, for example when I touch an object or bump into something, is an attack on the external world. The non-esoteric person has no inkling of this; he is protected from this knowledge by the guardian of the threshold, but the esoteric person gradually liberates his etheric body, which experiences itself in the etheric world. Their organs become more refined, and they increasingly develop a sense that every space is filled not only with physical objects, but with a countless number of elemental beings that make themselves felt through stinging, pushing, and burning. In this elemental etheric world, one must create space for oneself everywhere through impulses of will such as stretching out, withdrawing, pushing, stepping forward, etc., and such movements must be done with the full awareness that one wants to do them out of one's own being. This is the second thing: initiative in actions. Those who cannot create space for themselves in the etheric world without their initiative will can do just as little in this world as someone who wants to dance in the physical world on a platform full of chairs. First, the chairs must be removed. This is learned in the spiritual realm through the second exercise.