The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible\u2014due to external solidity\u2014to distinguish between what I am and what an object is. With spiritual perception it isn\u2019t so easy, at first, to distinguish that which originates from one’s own spirituality and that which is related to spiritual beings. This is the basis of many of the objections about anthroposophy that question the possibility of cognizing spiritual worlds. However, objections of this kind ultimately only represent self-constructed obstacles to the spiritual world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the meditative texts collected here, Rudolf Steiner draws attention to the fact that humans can make good progress on the threshold to the spiritual world by beginning to cognize themselves. In ancient Greece, \u201cKnow thyself\u201d was the directive for those striving for higher knowledge. Whomever wishes to come to spiritual knowledge must learn to distinguish between that which belongs to their own being and that which is the spiritual environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From<\/strong> Rudolf Steiner, \u201cErkennen Dich Selbst\u201d (\u201dKnow Thyself\u201d). Edited by Andreas Neider, Dornach 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Translation<\/strong> Eliza Rozeboom The fundamental difference between spiritual and sensory perception is apparent: with the latter, it is always possible\u2014due to external solidity\u2014to distinguish between what I am and what an object is. With spiritual perception it isn\u2019t so easy, at first, to distinguish that which originates from one’s own spirituality and that which is related to spiritual beings. This is the basis of many of the objections about anthroposophy that question the possibility of cognizing spiritual worlds. However, objections of this kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9174,"featured_media":48150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8848],"tags":[11342,8819],"class_list":["post-48731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-literature","tag-2023-23-en","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Graphic<\/strong> Sofia Lismont<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"