43. Consciousness – Life – Form

The dream-filled sleep does not show objects like the waking day consciousness, but images that arise and fade in the soul. However confusing these images may appear to the ordinary consciousness, the illumination of their essence is apt to lead deeper into the nature of the world. What they present themselves as in the nightly life of the soul cannot provide a proper basis for their knowledge. Such a basis is only available to the human being who, in the sense of such a training as described in this book, develops his higher powers of knowledge that lead him to an insight into the supersensible worlds. This chapter is intended to give a description of the facts that apply to these higher worlds. Those who themselves enter the path of knowledge into these regions will then also find these facts to be true.