Esoteric Lesson

Even if we cannot be together physically very much, we can always be aware that we are together spiritually. We are not separated, because in the etheric world, where our thoughts touch each other, the separation that exists in the material world does not exist. And we will become more and more aware that our ego expands, as it were, in our thoughts and becomes all-encompassing. This is one of the advances that esotericists should pay attention to, because the independence of our thought life is proof that we are making progress through our exercises and meditations. We feel as if our thoughts are being thought independently within us, not as before, as if we ourselves were producing our thoughts, but as if we felt the life of thought within us surrounded by an ever-expanding spiritual atmosphere, as if we were sending out a part of our ego into our thoughts and thereby becoming spiritually united with that from which we are physically separated. We expand, as it were, into our entire surroundings. And in this feeling of spiritual union with things, it can gradually become clear to us that the true being of things lies in this invisible but real spiritual atmosphere, while the material nature of things will increasingly reveal its unreal character to us.