Esoteric Lesson
If the human being were to go further, if he could make observations outside his body in the spiritual world, if he could then observe his own I or even another I, he would see how the human I is also the goal of the work of spiritual beings. And he would recognize these beings as messengers and servants of the spirits of form and, in part, of the spirits of movement. And they would know that these beings working on the human ego are themselves in a process of progress, of their own development, and that by nurturing the human ego, they are also developing themselves. Behind every human being, the clairvoyant would see a host of such beings caring for the human ego. And if the clairvoyant were to look at the physical body and the etheric body, he would again see hosts of elemental beings, whom he would recognize as servants of the spirits of movement and wisdom and the spirits of form.
Cite:
GA 266c/1914-04-25/p035 · edition English