20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

The inner experience one has when one has detached the power of thought can be compared to an inner, purely spiritual play of facial expressions. For as passive as we are with our senses toward the outer world, we cannot face the spiritual world. The moment we experience ourselves outside the body with the power of thought, it must always be kept active. This is the difference between spiritual perception and physical perception. In physical perception, we can think and devote ourselves to thinking; as soon as we enter the spiritual world with our emancipated power of thought, we must always be active; we must slip into the spiritual beings we want to perceive. We must always be active. When we cease to be active, spiritual perception also ceases. This perception can be called an inner play of expressions. We must always, arbitrarily, express what perception is, what we can know about the other being by adapting our own emancipated thinking to the processes and beings we perceive.