The Human Being's Journey Through the World of the Senses, Soul and Spirit

GA 119/1910-03-21/p026 ·1910-03-21 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Man enters into this spirit, which contains will and thought locked together in itself, as into a new world, when he has passed through his time of purification after death. And just as we live here in this world, which we pass through between birth and death, surrounded by the impressions of our senses, surrounded by everything our mind can think, so, as we are surrounded and enclosed by the physical world, so man is surrounded by the creative spiritual world everywhere after the time of purification. And he is within this creative spiritual world, he is part of it and belongs to it. This is also the first experience that occurs when the time of purification is over: man does not feel himself in a world that surrounds him with a horizon of things that he can perceive, but he feels himself inside a world where he is creative through and through. Everything that a person has taken in during their last life and even earlier lives, insofar as it has not yet been processed, and in particular everything that is in the described extract of their etheric or life body, everything that is left behind in his astral body, as that mighty impulse that wants to balance the obstacles that have been noticed, everything that is in man, he now feels it productively in himself, he now feels it creatively.

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