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With increasing humility, we are learning to realize how little we have fathomed these mysteries so far. And we learn that we must actually remove everything we have learned so far from our souls, that we must approach everything with a completely open mind, like a child—that only to the open mind of the soul do the divine mysteries that surround us reveal themselves. The soul must become childlike in order to enter the realms of heaven. The hidden wisdom—manas—then flows toward the childlike soul like a gift of grace from the spiritual world.","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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