Esoteric Lesson

But then there are also times when we have to do the opposite, so to speak. We must then feel completely within ourselves, feel as if the second self were arising from within us, which is our true self and which must receive more and more strength. (These two states must alternate with each other.) — And then, feeling our way through ourselves in solitude and gaining strength within ourselves, we will gradually feel, more powerfully than ever before, the good in ourselves and also the evil in ourselves. The good in us will reveal itself to us in such a way that we feel it growing, growing into a distant future where it will bear fruit; and we feel how the evil that is still in us, which we can also clearly picture in our minds, must become nourishment for the growing good. We feel that evil is something dying, while good is something growing, but we also feel that the vigorous growth of good depends on the nourishment it can obtain from the dying evil. We must be able to feel both within ourselves at the same time, the good and the evil, and at the same time know that the evil we can imagine in our minds must never become action; that we know, but must never do.