 sense of spiritism. I pass some
remarks about the acquisition of such capacities next time when I speak
about the great initiates of the world. Any real initiation can be connected
only with the gift of clairvoyance. The capacities of the great initiates
originated from the gift of clairvoyance.
Today you have to be an
absolutely reasonable person, before you become a clairvoyant. You must
be able to think logically and clearly. Somebody who would attain the
gift of clairvoyance without having developed the gift of the reasonable,
clear thinking would receive a bad gift. He would be led to a world
of fancies rather than to a higher spiritual world. There he would miss
any control and would face it like the chaotic dream world. Not before
you get into the habit of logical, clear, reasonable thinking, so that
you walk through the spiritual things as the reasonable human being
walks through tables and chairs, so that it is no longer anything special,
you can understand that the gift of clairvoyance guides one into the
riddle of the world. All occult schools have as a precondition that
the human being is a quite reasonable, maybe a somewhat sober human
being, so that he is the opposite of a daydreamer. Hence, we say that
clairvoyance, the cognition of the astral auric world, is connected
with the development of our spiritual abilities.
The view of the human being,
as I have described it, was similar in the pre-Lemurian time. But it
was not pervaded with consciousness. Only a dim consciousness existed
in the human being. Indeed, at that time on this level he already felt
what was hot and cold; he had a sense of touch and could perceive certain
differences of density. He also had the gift of hearing. The sense of
hearing is one of the oldest senses which humanity developed. But he
did not yet have the sense of seeing. This still was, so to speak, an
internal one. The colours lived as pictures in the human soul. If he
came, for example, to a region which was colder than that he came from
then in his soul a colour picture of darker colour shadings appeared.
If he made it reversely, if he came from a colder air layer to a warmer
one, then there was a yellowish or a yellowish-reddish colour picture.
Thus those human beings had colour pictures which did not combine, however,
with the surface of the bodies, but lived as uncertain colour pictures
in the soul. This combined then with the surroundings of the human being.
But at that time the human
being had something else. He had a fine sensitivity for that what took
place emotionally in his surroundings. If we are here in a room, you
do not sit there only as physical bodies, but also as souls. In each
of you feelings and sensations live. These are also something real like
the physical body is something real. What today the human soul has as
sentient ability can no longer penetrate these forces of the feelings
and sensation because just due to the further development of humankind
the human being became clearer in his consciousness because he has developed
his reason, his everyday view. But he has temporarily lost what existed
in his soul. He will regain this ability maintaining his present reasonability
and his clear waking consciousness. Once the whole humankind attains
a state which today only the practical mystic, the clairvoyant has.
In order to attain this state the human being had to go through a merely
physical view, through a merely bodily percipience. In one respect humankind
gets to a higher level, and in another respect it descends to a lower
level in certain way.
At that time, the human
being came from a vague, dim percipience. But this was at the same time
mental-clairvoyant percipience. If now in the nearness of the human
being any likeable feeling, anything emotional lived which you allow
the expression emitted sympathy, then the human being received those
bright colour pictures in himself. Bad feelings let arise darker colour
pictures tending to blue, brownish, reddish colours. This was the interrelation
of the inner soul-life with the external mental reality at that t