When we practise love, cultivate love, creative forces pour into the world. Love is for the world what the sun is for external life. Then you’ll begin to make it better, better, better, better, better… oh! Nah, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah, nah nah yeah The movement you need is on your shoulder You’re waiting for someone to perform with A law that is a matter of course in Devachan is a task that has to be fulfilled on earth.” ~ Rudolf Steiner, Rosicrucian Esotericismnĭon’t carry the world upon your shoulders It is from there that the impulse is brought to make brotherliness a reality here on the earth.
There, the misfortune caused by someone to another human being in order to better himself would reverberate upon him nobody could prosper at the expense of another.Īdjustment starts from Devachan. On earth, greater or less personal prosperity is possible at the costs of others but in Devachan that is out of the question. Fellow feeling in Devachan is much more alert, much more intimate than it is on earth one experiences another’s pain there as one’s own. (…) Companionship in Devachan is, to say the least, as intimate as any life here on earth.
He himself proclaims his name, indeed, in a much truer form than is possible here, as the basic tone, which, as it is said in occultism, he represents in the spiritual world. Recognition of loved ones is not particularly difficult here, for each soul bears his inner, spiritual reality inscribed as it were upon his spiritual countenance. The relationship of soul to soul is far more intimate and inward than it is in the physical world. (…) In Devachan, souls confront each other directly. He is involved in all the spiritual relationships he himself has woven. When a clairvoyant gazes at the earth from the standpoint of Devachan, he perceives this web of spiritual relationships that a human being finds a gain when he passes into Devachan after death. (…) If you try to picture the whole human race on the earth and all the bonds of friendship and love that have been woven, you must picture these relationships as a great network or web, which is, moreover, actually present in Devachan. When the individual dies, everything that is physical in these relationships of love and friendship falls away from them and only what was of the nature of soul and spirit remains. Indeed, it may be said that the more spiritual the relationships here have been, the more significant they are for the world of Devachan (soul-world). Bonds of friendship, of love, and so on, are firmly knit, and every contact made between one human being and another has significance and reality not only for this physical world but also for the spiritual world. “Threads from soul to soul are woven here in the physical world as the result of the manifold circumstances of existence. And what made me seek, to such a measure, was yourself, in me. (…) all my life, my search for you had no end. No soul could thrive if love departed from the world.