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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.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The Connection Between Humans and the Spiritual World","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-12-03","location":null,"word_count":222,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/168/1916-12-03/p006","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Connection Between the Living and the Dead","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA168/English/SOL2024/19161203p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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