20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

Thus, emancipated speech, life in the inner word, can be called an inner gesture, an inner gesture. Just as in outer life, when one is actively involved in something, one needs gestures — sometimes too many, as I do when giving a lecture — then one expresses what one experiences in activity; just as in physical life one is in motion in gesture and thereby expresses what is within oneself, so in emancipating the power of speech, in passing into the spiritual world and into the processes of the spiritual world, one must express what belongs to other beings through inner gesture. From this you can see the great difference between real spiritual knowledge and sensory knowledge. Sensory knowledge is passive, spiritual knowledge is active.