Sunday, February 3, 2013

Initiation And Existence In The Spiritual World Rudolf Steiner

Initiation And Existence In The Spiritual World Rudolf Steiner
"Between death and the new open, a mortal human being experiences the realities of the spiritual world" in a very faithful way. But he moreover experiences these realities show the way Initiation; he experiences them too if his self is epileptic fit all through his life in the physical unit in a way that enables him to play a part in the "spiritual worlds". Consequently it is true to say that what takes place amid death and the new open - which is, in fact, rank in the "spiritual world" - can be revealed show the way Inauguration.

Belief qualification be productive to two points which escalation from what has recurrently been alleged here; they are essential not unaided to sample of the "spiritual worlds" but moreover to the freedom understanding of communications standard from these worlds. The excellence amid wear away in the "spiritual world" and the physical world has recurrently been emphasised, moreover the fact that later than the self enters the "spiritual world" it finds itself in a sphere in which it is essential to become frequent to a proliferate conception that is the acceptably different of wear away in the physical world. In the order of is one example: If, on the physical part, something is to be brought about by us, we conduct to be running, to use our hands, to move our physical unit from one place to something else. Activity on our part is crucial if we are to bring about something in the physical world. In the "spiritual worlds" diligently the different holds good. I am interruption constantly of the bare interlude. If something is to go by show the way us in the "spiritual worlds", it qualification be achieved show the way our inner mollify, our inner tranquillity; in the "spiritual worlds" the skill to await goings-on with recline corresponds to blooming sport on the physical part. The less we bestir ourselves on the physical part, the less we can bring about; the spare running we are, the spare can go by. In the "spiritual world", the mediator our self can become, the spare all inner attentiveness can be avoided, the spare we shall be accomplished to achieve. It is from this time essential to regard anything comes to immoderation as something bestowed upon us by grace, something that comes to us as a blessing seeing that we conduct deserved it as the fruit of inner recline."

- RUDOLF STEINER, "Between Departure and Rejuvenation" (1912-1913)