72. EL, Berlin, 12-20-'10
The physical and etheric bodies
are closely connected in an ordinary man. Whether he raises a hand or
thinks, when he uses his physical body he also sets the corresponding
part of the etheric body in motion. This connection should become
looser in an esoteric.
A man has a backbone that's
connected with the brain and sense organs. When he meditates, he
creates a kind of a “forebone” in his etheric body;
that's the row of lotus flowers that lies behind the
breastbone.
The loosening of the physical
and etheric bodies enables a man to heal wounds faster. Diseases of the
physical body that remained concealed while the close connection was there,
can then appear. One shouldn't pay much attention to small pains
and ailments, because they're all transitory. But one can feel
very uncomfortable when this loosening begins. Theosophical study
already brings about this loosening, whereas scientific training
makes the connection between the physical and etheric bodies even
tighter.
So through meditation the
etheric body gets the tendency to become separated from the physical body.
One can intensify this through a suitable diet. Diets give the physical
body the tendency to push out the etheric body. This is an aid that
however brings about the wrong thing if esoteric exercises
aren't added. Then the physical body ejects the etheric body
without developed sense organs Then it's like a blind man, and
it only sees its own daydreams.
While a man's sheaths
undergo a change in this way, his connection with the macrocosm also
changes. This connection must be cultivated in the right way, otherwise
disasters occur in the whole world, and not just in man. For instance,
someone who would utter the sacred, unspeakable name in an unsuitable
group would conjure up something worse than earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions over the region. Therefore, it makes a big difference how
the Rosicrucian verse is spoken, namely with or without the name
that's just pseudonym for the highest spiritual being. Only the
latter way of speaking the verse is an esoteric one.
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