7. The Fourth Dimension III

It is the whole evolution an inhalation and exhalation, physically, mentally and spiritually. At a higher stage, man will no longer take nourishment from physical substance, but will live and grow by inhaling and exhaling. Thus he will supply the body with the substances it needs to live and grow. Taking in physical food is related to being bound to the third dimension. Once we live more consciously in the fourth and higher dimensions, the necessity of taking in physical food falls away more and more. Then the physical body becomes more and more what it is supposed to become: a temple in which the divine self dwells, and a tool, a means through which the I can enter into connection with all the forces of the universe. It will become the key to all the secrets of the world. The secrets of the world will be revealed to man in the same measure as he learns to live no longer for the physical body, but to live through the physical body. If he learns to use the physical body as what it is, as a condensed spirit, as an imprint of the whole cosmos, as the microcosm, then the microcosm must open up to him. For this the way is the overcoming of the third dimension, the spatially solid, closed, impenetrable and the overcoming of the sixth dimension, the being closed in the I.