10. The Supernatural Human Being III

GA 67/1918-04-20/p026 ·1918-04-20 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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Inspiration is quite foreign to human beings, as is imagination, for that matter. Therefore, what I have now described for the human organization appears in ordinary consciousness in such a way that inspired thinking — and all true thinking is inspired — actually remains a mystery. This is the only way to explain how it has been discussed today. So it is not researched at all in philosophy, but is simply accepted. People write logics that judge mere ascending, free thinking. But where the soul gets the ability to develop logic is something we cannot fathom. We can only understand this when we realize that the soul was in the spiritual world and brought back the guidelines for thinking from there, and that what we develop as logic is not developed in the present at all. All of this is content from existence before birth or conception; it has not passed away. We live eternal life; we have not come out of eternal life. This inspires us when we rise to thinking that goes beyond mere imagination. This is proof, but one cannot see through the facts. Therefore, in this area, one comes to riddles, but not to answers.

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