Esoteric Lesson
Once the esotericist has come to terms with this fundamental truth, that he is surrounded by nothingness in the physical-sensory sense, a second truth will soon dawn on him, the truth: It thinks me, not: I think. For so long he believed that his thoughts had value in the world, but now he is gradually learning that there is a world power in the spiritual realm which creates by thinking. And that all human thinking is only a shadowy reflection of this world thinking, which is produced by a sublime spiritual being, to whom thinking is as natural as sensory perception is to humans. He learns that these human thoughts are only shadows reflected in the physical body and have only the value of shadows, which are indeed a necessity for the physical world, but which he must transform through his meditation so that the shadow images become realities.
Cite:
GA 266c/1914-03-27/p026 · edition English