Guidance in Esoteric Training

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.

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

The first resistance to be overcome is one’s own lethargy;

to enrich their conceptual life with new ways of understanding.

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

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.

The act of meditating represents a middle state by which the one-sided luciferic and ahrimanic elements may be overcome. Luciferic enticement lies in solitary thinking and brooding. The ahrimanic temptation lies in perception one-sidedly directed towards the external world. Now a middle condition can be developed in one’s soul by making one’s thoug

becoming inwardly free through a conscientious examination of everything that stands in relationship to one’s own soul.

let the heartbeats of the other resound in you, and do not disturb them with the beating of your own heart.