122. EL, Bern, 12-16-'12
The battle against
occult endeavors is greater today than ever before. It's true that
people always fought against them with blood and fire, but never as
much as today. You brothers and sisters can help to mitigate this
battle that's only brought about by envy You can do a lot by
not referring to me as a leader, as so often happens. You can be
certain in your hearts and know where you stand, but you
shouldn't speak about this publicly.
One can observe a certain
periodicity in human life, just as one perceives a periodicity in the
outer world. Say that we have an event in our life. This event
passes. Things go on for a while, and then there's a repetition
of the event. On the schema one sees that the circles get bigger each
time. In ordinary human life one can observe that one
tries to discard ambition
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and vanity, also love of ease and laziness. One may have won a certain
victory over these defects in ordinary life. When one has gone through
an esoteric development for awhile, these defects suddenly stand before
us again, and as one can see from the schema, they're much worse than the
first time. Now one can try to overcome this vanity, ambition, etc.,
again, until they approach us again in ever worse forms. But one can
also stand still, not overcome, and then one will bring this vanity,
etc., into one's esoteric life as poison. The following
threefold force will be a good way to overcome these defects.
When our ego and astral
body slip into our etheric and physical bodies again in the morning,
consciousness arises through the shock of this slipping-in process.
There would be no consciousness in this world without the etheric and
physical bodies. These two parts that we need for consciousness
don't belong to us — we inherited them from our ancestors.
It might occur to us on waking that these parts that we got for
nothing could also be taken way from us someday then we can
understand what sages always said in the morn: “I thank you God
that you enabled me to wake up again,” and so on. It's
the Father God who enables us to dive down into the physical body
again in the morn. When we say the words: It weaves me, we
have force that enables us to feel thankfulness for this submersion
in the physical body. We have a very powerful mantra in these words.
A great feeling of thankfulness must go through us with these words:
It weaves me. We have a great source of strength every time we
say them. One who can't generate a great feeling of
thankfulness shouldn't say them. Our first thought on awakening
in the morn will be a prayer of thanks to the Father God who enables
us to return to this physical body.
When a man has a life
behind him, something will meet him in the spiritual world. What met him
in BC times was different from what meets him now. A shock is experienced
when one slips into the physical body, which awakens consciousness.
After death, we have no physical body, and without this, an I has no
consciousness today. What preserves consciousness for the I is the
power of the Son, whom we can meet in the spiritual world after
death. Here, too, we have a powerful mantra And that is: It works
me. We should say it with devotion and reverence and thereby get
a preservation of consciousness between death and a new life.
What must also come about
is that we go over into spiritual worlds, that we wake up through the
Holy spirit, who leads us over there. Here we have the mantra: It
thinks me. This must be said with piety. And so we have hope,
love and faith. Then threefold love will awaken in man — love of
truth, life and creativity. We often run into love of truth, but love
of life not so often. Love of life will put every man in the right
position to other men. For how can one love life rightly without
loving other men? Giving in to someone in everything out of passion
isn't a love of life. It's only love of life if one does
not excuse all wrongs out of kindness; sometimes it's love if
one doesn't give in. The third love, of creativity, is hard to
find. We should love all creativity and work. But look at how men
turn against anything creative.
Vanity hinders us in the
love of truth. And who can still be vain if he cultivates the love of
truth. We must increasingly cultivate the love of truth.
Through the love of life we
develop sympathy for all life. Egoism is melted by this love. One who
has the right love of all life can't remain in egoism.
The love of creativity
eliminates all laziness and love of ease.
And so we can say: I love
the truth through the Holy Spirit who thinks in me. I love life through
the Son who works in me. I love creativity through the Father who
weaves in me. Or we can say: We're born in the Father God. We
die in Christ, and we'll be resurrected through the Holy
Spirit. E D N, I C M, P S S R. We were born in this physical
body through the Father Sprit, we die through the Son, and the Holy
Spirit gives us the certainty of a resurrection.
And so we'll say the words
that were us out of the truth:
In
the spirit lay the germ of my body.
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
The eyes of sense,
That through them I may see
The lights of bodies.
And the spirit has imprinted in my body
Reason and sensation
And feeling and will,
That through them I may perceive bodies
And act upon them.
In the spirit lay the germ of my body.
In my body lies the germ of the spirit.
And I will incorporate into my spirit
The super-sensible eyes
That through them I may behold the light of spirits.
And I will imprint in my spirit
Wisdom and power and love,
So that through me the spirits may act
And I become a self-conscious organ
Of their deeds.
In my body lies the germ of the spirit.
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