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This can give us a sense of the sanctity of our body temple, and it is good to feel this way, knowing about the cosmic forces that are at work within it. But now, as soon as we become aware of this through clairvoyance, the desire arises in us to penetrate there with our own ego, to displace the elemental beings and enter ourselves. And when we then stand on earth in our ordinary consciousness, how is it that everything is different and we seem to be something completely different from this divine, luminous temple? This is Ahriman, who throws the veil of sensory perception over our eyes and thus obscures our view of the divine world weaving in the physical realm. And what we then experience in our ordinary ego consciousness is Lucifer, who gives us the feeling of a personal self. Then there is only one thing we can do, namely meditate; and thus we ... 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