2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings

I would have to quote much of what is written in the books mentioned if I wanted to explain how, in this way, imagination really becomes something quite different from what it is in ordinary life. In ordinary life, imagination is passive, based on sensory perceptions. By strengthening the soul life in the way that is done in principle through the exercises I have described, but which must be done through many, many exercises, imagination becomes something completely different. This makes the act of imagining so lively that, in a sense, a much more inner and concrete self than the ordinary human self asserts itself in the person, and the person learns to recognize how, with this heightened soul life, they can now truly observe the phenomena of the soul.