The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World

First, I would like to make a remark about the fact that perception in the elemental world can only begin when human beings are able to free themselves completely from what makes them earthly human beings. This freeing of oneself from what makes human beings earthly human beings is generally not difficult. However, it is more difficult for people today than it was for people in ancient times. We all know about the atavistic clairvoyance of ancient times. This consisted largely in the fact that human beings were able to free themselves from what makes them earthly human beings. As earthly human beings, we are only to a very small extent made up of solid matter. We consist largely of fluid. The moment we can emancipate ourselves from what is solid within us, when we feel only our fluid nature, the emergence of the imaginative can begin. Only our existence in the solid world prevents us from knowing what surrounds us as an elementary world through imaginative perception. This imaginative perception will return just as it was lost to humanity. However, the lost imaginative clairvoyance was a kind of unconscious, dreamlike state. What will gradually form in our fifth post-Atlantean epoch will be fully conscious imaginative vision. But this will become integrated into human beings through a completely natural process of development.