Esoteric Lesson

Of course, one thing is certain: everyone who wants to find the way to the spiritual world must rethink their entire life of perception and feeling. But this “becoming different” is so often misunderstood. People like to think that they can transfer the knowledge they have acquired on the physical plane to the spiritual worlds; with the same means by which they have made themselves intelligent beings within the physical world, people believe they can also become knowledgeable in the spiritual world. The esotericist must learn to understand that the means by which one progresses on the physical plane are completely different from those that must be used to penetrate the spiritual world. The student must learn more and more to feel his way into the spiritual world through his devoted feelings. he must learn to tell himself that in meditation it is not so much the content of the thoughts that matters as the whole attitude, the mood of the soul from which the meditation is made. It is these that transform the soul and gradually develop the organs of the soul. Such a devoted, reverent mood of the soul not only works into the astral body, but the esotericist will also increasingly come to feel his etheric body. And that is a very important moment for esoteric development when this moment occurs.