Esoteric Lesson

[First line:] To things ... - the soul should really turn to the things of the outside world as if with an inner gesture. The second line: When I turn... should reinforce the first. One should really feel inwardly how one turns toward the things of the outer world with an inner jolt, not just glancing at them fleetingly, but wanting to recognize them in their essence. In the third line, the appearance of the senses itself is addressed. The soul should learn to free itself intensively for moments from these non-entities of the sensory world, and by recognizing more and more the nothingness of the sensory world, it will completely change its inner position toward the physical-material. It will learn to regard the material as necessary for life in the sensory world, but at the same time to rise above it to what lies behind it as the creative world [the nothingness]. And it will gradually learn to detach itself from them so that it spreads out far into space as if on soul wings. There it will see and feel: everything material is transitory—but the good and true in me is not transitory. That is eternal! I am allowed to participate in the eternal, to help shape the seed for a future, because my soul lives in the floods of the divine-true, the good. In that which, as the divine-creative, has been creating and working in the world since time immemorial. - E.D.N.