Guidance in Esoteric Training

For a pupil who was not yet capable of bringing this about himself, dramatic pictures, scenes from human life, were presented by initiates for the purpose of awakening these organs in him. By witnessing them a man learnt to feel, without its brutal reality, what is normally bound up with the events themselves. That is what remains of events in the

It is very important what the human being conveys to his spirit as he breathes out. He builds up his spirit through his thoughts. He builds it up with every thought that passes into the breath he exhales. The human being did not always have an organ for breathing air. If we look back at previous planetary stages, at the Moon, we find beings that in

But the soul exists for the very purpose of recognizing the eternal in things.

Through this activity the soul gradually achieves the experience of making itself, as a being of soul and spirit, free from the physical body and independent.

we become conscious of the feeling of an inner impulse of activity in the soul;

human souls have reached the limit of their striving.

We must bear in mind, however, that we are not primarily concerned with the contents of these concepts, but with the energy, the inner activity that we develop in giving ourselves up to them.

and see how this undefined longing, this vague hoping for the spirit, prevails throughout mankind today.

guide this feeling to the heart and from there to let it stream into the eyes, and thence out into the space in front of and around oneself.