The first result
of our meditation is that we get a feeling for the fact that we strive for and
make a connection with beings of the higher hierarchies, and that this should
express itself in such a way that we feel that we're entering higher worlds,
that we've arrived at the place where we originated; that's the way we should
experience it. This feeling of being taken into the spiritual world should be
warm and alive. One who wants to enter this spiritual world must tell himself:
Everything must change in an esotericist — his concepts, feelings, and knowledge
must change. Let's take men's egoism — it's Luciferic beings who gave us memory.
And while we're frugal in physical life, we waste an awful lot of soul and
spiritual forces. We must become economical with these forces and transform them
into perception forces. To do this, we must practice self-knowledge. We spray
out our feelings and sentiments too selflessly from morn to eve. Therefore we
must first go through egotism in soul and spiritual things. An esotericist is in
danger of increasing his egoism here, and so a moral and intellectual catharsis
of a man must accompany all true esoteric work.
We must realize
that something impossible is being demanded of us esotericists, and that we're
striving toward this impossible thing. For all striving is a striving toward
the impossible, and it's also impossible to be unegoistical.
We must try to
have the right feeling about all developmental striving. A craving for knowledge
and progress is not the right thing. We should earnestly feel that it's our duty
to develop, for the divine spirit has placed forces in us that he develops
without help from us, but he has also placed active forces in us that a man must
develop through deeds. It's the greatest sin against the divine spirit not to
develop these forces that the Godhead has placed in us for the benefit of human
evolution and progress These forces in us are so strong that they lead us up
into the spiritual world, although it may take a long time. Therefore an
esotericist should tell himself: “I'll wait, because I know that the forces in me
will sooner or later lead me up into the spiritual world.” They do this if we're
devoted to the spiritual world in the right way.
The accessory
exercises develop the qualities in us that are necessary for the physical plane;
these are controlled thinking, actions one chooses oneself, equanimity, etc.
That way we'll gradually have a chamber in our heart, in our soul, in which we
keep our most sacred things, in which we're esotericists, whereas as men we stand
outside in the life. And so conflict with ourselves can be taken for granted; we
must become fighters when we become esotericists.
Meditators
complain that thoughts storm in and disturb them, and to this one can reply that
it's beings fluttering around who storm in on us ever more strongly. Here one
can only say: Be glad that this is so; this is the result of meditation and it
shows you that thoughts are a spiritual power. Courage, fearlessness, and
confidence are qualities that an esotericist needs on his path.
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