Esoteric Lesson

Let us suppose that someone suddenly becomes clairvoyant in their sleep; how will they see themselves? When we meet someone here on the physical plane, we encounter their physical form, in which an ego lives. This is not the case in the spiritual world; we must not think that we see people there in the same form as on the physical plane. Here in the physical world, we see individual things separated from one another with sharp contours; it is different in the spiritual world. What weaves and flows there are moving images, and we recognize these moving images as beings, as the spirits of the higher hierarchies who send out their messengers, their helpers, to give the human form its proper expression. These emissaries, these messengers of the spirits of form, are still, so to speak, at the stage of childhood; but they will continue to work their way up as they cultivate the human ego. And another host of elemental beings, the guardians of the ego, surround the human head. They work on its thinking and are sent forth by the spirits of form and movement. And yet other elemental beings, emissaries of the spirits of wisdom, work on the human heart and bring about the circulation of the blood.