Esoteric Lesson

A second thing that must be learned in esoteric life is truthfulness. Those who have not already learned this in physical life will have great difficulty in their ascent into the spiritual world, since they must leave behind their logical thinking and everything connected with the intellect, and in the spiritual world they will not be corrected by facts as they are here in the physical world. The good gods wanted to educate human beings in truthfulness precisely by placing them in the physical world, where every untruth—that is, everything that does not correspond to the facts—is corrected by the facts. The inclination toward truthfulness can only be acquired in the physical world, not in the spiritual world.