20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

GA 69d/1914-05-08/p031 ·1914-05-08 · English High

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Spiritual research can establish that between death and a new birth, the soul repeatedly experiences such moods in the purely spiritual world, alternating with the other moods that I will describe in a moment. And the moment that occurs immediately in the middle between death and new birth — I have taken the liberty of calling it “the spiritual midnight hour of existence” in the mystery drama “The Awakening of the Soul” “the spiritual midnight hour of existence” because there, in fact, in the midst of the bliss of spiritual life before the next birth, the soul experiences a moment when it is completely alone with itself, experiencing only itself, but can become quite anxious in the awareness: there is a world around you, but it is outside your consciousness, you know nothing about it; a world, indeed worlds, arise from within you. You are alone with these worlds.

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