10. The Supernatural Human Being III

If, through concentration of thought, feeling, and sensation, one strengthens one's soul life to such an extent that one can enter into this seeing consciousness, then one is initially able to disregard everything that otherwise stands in the way of everyday human perception through the senses. One has moved beyond this sensory perception. One lives in a different inner soul being, living initially in what can be called imaginative consciousness. I call it imaginative consciousness, not because something unreal is to be represented, but because in this consciousness the soul is filled with images, initially nothing but images, but images of a reality. And besides, the soul is filled with images of which it sees very clearly that they are not reality itself, but images of reality, and the soul still knows that it stands within the real context of the world, that it does not weave these images out of nothing, out of arbitrary ideas, but out of an inner necessity. This comes from the fact that the soul has placed itself within the real world context and, from this position, does not create images in the same way as mere fantasy, but rather that the images woven retain the character of reality.