103. EL, Stuttgart, 2-23-'12
Now
let's raise our thoughts again to the high being who's in
charge of today. It's always a favorable constellation if an
esoteric lesson can be held on a Friday, because of the great
influence that this being ours into our thoughts and feelings. (Venus
mantra.)
Last
time we discussed why we should become esoterics; today I'd
like to tell you the real significance of daily mediation. The
meditations are tested and given to us by the masters of wisdom and
of the harmony of feelings for esoteric work. Their force is
irresistible if they're done in the right way with the most
sacred devotion. One should do the meditation shortly before going to
sleep and after one has banished all thoughts from our soul that
still connect us with daily life with it joys and pleasure, work and
sorrows. The meditation must be our last thought that we take into
the other world so that spiritual beings can connect themselves with
it. We dive down into their etheric bodies and they permeate us with
their force so that we can receive new forces and fresh health from
them for the new day. Unfortunately, many men go over into sleep life
with thoughts of material life's everyday pleasures. These
thoughts that stream out create oscillations that repel spiritual
beings, and such men counteract their spiritual development and
health. Just as we dive down into a spiritual atmosphere in the
evening, so on awakening in the morn we shouldn't immediately
get caught up in the worries, desires and passions that filled us the
previous day. If we suppress all of this and let our thoughts still
stay in the regions from which we just descended for awhile, then
after a little practice, we'll feel how this promotes our
development and not just for our own inner being, for the radiant
forces that flowed into us will also go out of our eyes and hands and
into our deeds for the good of mankind.
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