XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels

Once we have recognized this, we can find all of this in the scriptures. Anyone who has climbed the step of purification, who is no longer able to speak from his point of view, from his personal opinion, who completely withdraws what he wants, what his personal opinion is, and merely makes himself the mouthpiece of the one who speaks to him in the astral world, is able to see the course of history even without external historical monuments. This is the so-called seeing in the astral world, a seeing that is quite different from seeing with physical eyes. In this astral world, we receive images of all events as reflections, not in reality. These images of the astral world of the past are essentially different from the images of the physical world. They have life and act themselves, they are mobile, so that in this way one sees history unfolding in the astral world in active action. Those who have reached the level of purification see, as it were, only the mirror images of the true inner events. Only those who have reached the second stage, the stage of enlightenment, see further. They see the thoughts of the people, of which they were inspired after seeing them in the image. And if someone rises to the stage of initiation, then he sees an even higher world, then he recognizes the intentions that prevail in the history through the incarnation of the great individualities themselves.