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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Developing Consciousness of the Bodies Through Esoteric Exercises","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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