Esoteric Lesson

Last time, our esoteric consideration dealt with expansion in the etheric atmosphere and ended with the three formulas given; this time we will start from the life of sleep. When we sleep, our ego and astral body are in the spiritual world, and yet we cannot perceive anything there. And this can almost lead us to the anxious question of whether this will also be the case after death, whether we will be in the spiritual world but unable to perceive anything. The spiritual researcher, however, knows that in every human being there is an impulse, a desire, which is not conscious to us, but which asserts itself as soon as we are out of the body, namely the desire to descend back into the body and experience ourselves in it. If we were clairvoyant while asleep, we would notice how we look back at our body and then see the body as a wonderfully beautiful world. The more we are human beings who have an open eye for all the beauty in nature, the more we can admire the beauty of the physical world in which divine beings work and which is a temple for these divine beings.