Guidance in Esoteric Training

To take nothing relating to sympathies and antipathies and our petty cares over into the spiritual world will open it for us in the right way and let us enter.

In order to awake and become conscious, the soul needs strong forces and preparation.

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The higher organs become formed in one who strives for initiation. And in order to form them the astral body must be taken where it exists in purity. The lifting out of the etheric body is by no means easy today.

After passing through a period of time we can at first only remember it in our memory, not as yet actually look back on it. But the retrospect which we only apply to space can also be applied to time. In this way we learn to read the Akasha Chronicle in which every event is inscribed. At first one can only recognize in it things concerning oneself.

We live in the thinking but we have no direct experience of it. What we experience in it are its mirrorings on the physical body. The brain is the mirror. Now, through esoteric training one should come to an experience of the thinking itself, not merely of the thoughts. It is a great step to this experience. And a further one follows, that is, man

for through this ‘lifting ourselves’ out of the circle of our everyday thoughts and feelings, through the ‘emptying itself’ of our soul, we unite with a world from which pictures come towards us, pictures that we can compare with nothing out of our usual life.

They can only become aware of us if we come towards them through our life of imagination.

Streams of spiritual life are always flowing through the world. Yet as long as we busy ourselves with ordinary everyday thoughts these streams cannot flow into us. Our meditation-words are like gateways into the spiritual world; they are winged messengers which bear men upwards into supersensible realms. They have power to unlock our soul so that t