Subsequent Remarks

This follows on from the previously published soul paintings: “The Gate of Initiation,” “The Test of the Soul,” and “The Guardian of the Threshold.” What takes place in “The Awakening of the Soul” occurs about one to two years after the events of “The Guardian of the Threshold.” In “The Awakening,” a particularly important point in the soul development of the persons in question seems to me to have been reached. The events in “The Gate of Initiation,” insofar as they relate to the spiritual world as soul events, are entirely inner soul experiences of Johannes Thomasius. The events of the physical world that occur in the painting are only those that are related to these inner soul experiences. Nothing is depicted from such outer events that does not find its spiritual continuation in the inner soul processes of Johannes Thomasius. At the end of the “Gate of Initiation,” Johannes has progressed so far on his soul journey that, of the three stages of spiritual-soul experience of reality, the first, the world of real imagination in its essence and in its relationship to spiritual reality, is transparent to him.