14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?

GA 69d/1913-03-09/p013 ·1913-03-09 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
Record: mixed sources. This volume draws on more than one kind of record (transcripts, notes, documents). Check the volume's own front matter before weighing a single passage. Evidence: «Im Anhang Notizen und Berichte von weiteren Vorträgen» (In the appendix, notes and reports of further lectures). Rudolf Steiner Verlag Gesamtverzeichnis 2022, volume subtitle. The translation is the maintainer's, not a published one.

Why is the state of sleep unconscious in ordinary life? Because the inner life is so weak, so “timid,” that the power of the soul cannot perceive this inner life. But when forces are awakened, the soul feels itself, even when it disregards its physicality. And now one experiences that the soul can indeed consciously face its summertime, for now one experiences the content of thoughts in a completely different way. In everyday life, they are like grains of wheat that the farmer harvests in the field in the familiar way. They only develop to a certain degree when they serve as food. When they are harvested, they are no different from those used for sowing.

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