Esoteric Lesson

Make the following clear to yourselves, my dear sisters and brothers: I stretch out my hand and touch the blackboard. In the physical-sensory sense, one would say that there is an object that my hand has encountered resistance from. This is correct for physical perception. In the spiritual realm, however, where I touch the blackboard, there is nothing. There is a hole, a gap in the spiritual world. Nothingness, holes are in the spiritual world where physical objects are in the physical world. But before my hand reaches this “nothingness,” I stretch it through a spiritual world, which in turn is empty, a nothingness, for physical perception. But this world is spiritually filled with realities — with spiritual beings. When we think through what has just been said as students of spiritual science, we must learn to say to ourselves: So when I look at something physical, what I actually see are the outlines of the spiritual world. The student must bring himself to this realization. He must see the spirit behind everything, and only then will he see the physical in the right way.