10. The Supernatural Human Being III

Already a little closer, because he approaches the matter with feeling, is the person in inspiration. Subconsciously, he has the imagination that is represented in relation to the extremities. That is why philosophers also speak little about life before birth, because it can only be recognized in a higher realm that is less accessible to ordinary consciousness. The thinking that is closest to the imaginative comes up dimly. That is why it is much easier and more common to talk about what remains as immortality, but to avoid both the forces that inspire the soul and the forces that we find imaginatively, so that the images themselves pass into the spiritual world and the preparation for the next earthly life is created from the images. We enter the spiritual world with the images. What we carry in there represents, in a certain sense, our future.