Capacity for transformation
27 October 2020
| Rudolf Steiner
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Supersensible consciousness has to live itself into the capacity for transformation, since otherwise it would be unable to make observations in the elemental world.
It therefore acquires a faculty it should only make use of as long as it knows itself to be in the elemental world, and which it must suppress as soon as it returns to the sensory world. Supersensible consciousness must observe the boundary of the two worlds at all times. […]
When the soul enters the supersensible world with supersensible consciousness […] it finds that due to its capacity to transform it gets to know beings to which it is, to a greater or lesser degree, related; it also realizes, however, that it encounters beings in the supersensible world to which it is not only related but to which it has to compare itself in order to know itself.
Source: Rudolf Steiner, GA 17, The Threshold of the Spiritual World
Relates to: The relationship of one’s own being to the world