14. How Can We Know About Supernatural Worlds?

GA 69d/1913-03-09/p025 ·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.
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As I said, what is necessary for observing, recognizing, even just admitting the spiritual world, acknowledging it, is self-experience of the spiritual world. And when [human beings], through a shattering experience, bring about what has just been described, that everything that was once their ego is separated what was once his ego, then what was once silent, mute, and dormant becomes active and alive within him. What is spiritual-soul essence and builds up the body, connects with the line of inheritance, with what comes from father and mother, what one works for, one sees detached, and that is what is shocking, what is significant. But when one awakens in a new being, then that is the one that passes through birth and death, not what one otherwise considered to be one's self. What one now experiences is what spiritual science speaks of when it speaks of what passes through repeated earthly lives.

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