Esoteric Lesson

By striving in this way to detach himself from these shadow thoughts, the student will gradually succeed in concentrating his self in the etheric body. He will no longer feel himself to be a human being only in his physical body. He will also increasingly perceive the physical body as a shadow in which he must experience himself here on the physical plane. When a person suddenly steps in front of a mirror, it gives them the external impression of their physical form, but that is not the person themselves; it is only a reflection of the person. When they step back from the mirror, the image—themselves—is no longer there. But they are still there, even without the mirror. The mirror only gives a shadow image of their external form.