10. The Supernatural Human Being III

But again, it is a special experience that consciousness has with this now attained level of its knowledge. In the images, consciousness is tense; it must maintain its activity. And now, in a certain way, precisely because it directs its attention to its own maintenance, consciousness has come to a comprehensive solitude. With its own activity, it gradually falls into a comprehensive solitude. The images fade away, the imagination ceases. But consciousness now behaves more passively, more sufferingly, toward what speaks through the imagination. What it now takes in, it recognizes as coming from reality. It is placed in a position as if effects of reality were coming from all sides, but reality itself cannot be reached. One does not stand inside reality, nor does one stand opposite it.