The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World

GA 168/1916-12-03/p004 ·1916-12-03 · 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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We can now look at the whole development, which we considered yesterday from a more external point of view, in a somewhat more internal way, by trying to bring the connection between the human being and the spiritual world before our soul from a certain point of view. Between birth and death, we live here in the physical world. We know this physical world through our sensory perceptions. It is a triviality, hardly worth mentioning: if we did not have our sense organs, we would know nothing of our connection with the physical world. But everything that our sense organs convey to us about our connection with the physical world naturally separates from us when we pass through the gate of death, so that we can say that It is our task between birth and death to become acquainted with the physical world. We are incorporated into this physical body in order to become acquainted with the physical world through it.

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