9. Justification of a Science of the Soul in the Sense of Anthroposophy

If you learn about the nature of imagining in this way, you can build a bridge between imagining and awakening. If you know that imagining is only a small awakening, you also know how the independent soul swings back and forth into the physical body. And by building the bridge to awakening on the one hand, from imagining to awakening, you can acquire the ability on the other hand to build the bridge from awakening to being born or conceived, to that submerging of the soul into the physical body that occurs when the soul, before it is born or conceived, submerges into the body from a presence in the spiritual world.