Spiritual consciousness
Spiritual consciousness, also called intuition (from Latin: intuitio "immediate contemplation", to Latin intueri "to look at, contemplate, see into", from in "into" and tuere "to see") or conscious all-consciousness, the most immediate non-discursive form of cognition, is an all-encompassing holistic consciousness through which, finally, the spiritual events in the whole cosmos can be experienced. It is the transformed trance-consciousness, connected with clear self-awareness, which man had on Old Saturn and which the minerals have today. Man will have it fully developed only on the Vulcan. Through spiritual training, intuitive consciousness can already be developed to a certain extent now, when the sentient soul is transformed into the intuitive soul. A preliminary stage to this is clear fully conscious intuitive thinking. Intuition corresponds to the "unio mystica", the "becoming one with God", experienced with full clarity of thought and not merely emotionally, which the mystics strove for.
Intuition
By no means should what Rudolf Steiner calls intuition be confused with the semi-conscious, dream-like gut feeling that is colloquially referred to as intuition and is only a last remnant of a very old form of cognition that is no longer contemporary today and that is ultimately based on the widespread gut clairvoyance of early times. In contrast, the spiritual consciousness described by Steiner is three levels above the present waking day consciousness in terms of clarity and degree of consciousness and is thus the highest and most conscious form of cognition accessible to man today - at least in his earliest beginnings.
„Here it should only be pointed out that what is called "intuition" in occult science has nothing to do with what the word "intuition" is often applied to in popular usage at present. It is used to describe a more or less uncertain "idea" in contrast to a clear, logical understanding of reason. In the occult science, 'intuition' is nothing unclear and uncertain, but a high kind of cognition, full of the brightest clarity and the most undoubted certainty.“ (Lit.:GA 12, p. 67f)
Literature
- Franz Pfeiffer, Deutsche Mystiker des vierzehnten Jahrhunderts, Zweiter Band: Meister Eckhart, Leipzig 1857, S 312 (Eckhart, Predigt 96)
- Herbert Witzenmann: Intuition und Beobachtung, Aufsatz in: Intuition und Beobachtung TL 1. Das Erfassen des Geistes im Erleben des Denkens, S. 73-102 (erstmals erschienen in Die Drei, 1948, überarbeitet), Verlag Freies Geistesleben, 1977, ISBN 3772506755
- Herbert Witzenmann: Erkenntniswissenschaftliche Bemerkungen zur Bildhaftigkeit des übersinnlichen Schauens, in: Verstandesblindheit und Ideenschau. Die Überwindung des Intellektualismus als Zeitforderung, Gideon Spicker, 1985, S. 96 - 122. (Zuerst als Aufsatz in den 'Beiträgen zur Weltlage' (Nr. 71, 1984), überarbeitet), ISBN 3857041730
- Anton Kimpfler: Die Himmelsleiter des Erkennens: Über Imagination, Inspiration und Intuition, Verlag für Anthroposophie 2011, ISBN 978-3037690352
- Christoph Hueck: Intuition - das Auge der Seele. Die Darstellung des intuitiven Erkennens im schriftlichen Werk Rudolf Steiners, Akanthos Akademie Edition, Books on Demand 2016, ISBN 978-3741298264; eBook ASIN B01N0H7HXN
- Christoph Hueck: Philosophie als Initiation: Die sieben philosophischen Schriften Rudolf Steiners als spiritueller Schulungsweg, Books on Demand 2017, ISBN 978-3746046785; eBookASIN B0788R72FS
- Rudolf Steiner, Edward de Boer (Hrsg.): Intuition - Brennpunkt des Denkens, Rudolf Steiner Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3727452994
- Rudolf Steiner: Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, GA 2, Dornach 2002, ISBN 3-7274-0020-X; Tb 629, ISBN 978-3-7274-6290-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Philosophie der Freiheit, GA 4 (1995), ISBN 3-7274-0040-4; Tb 627, ISBN 978-3-7274-6271-9 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung, GA 7 (1987), Kapitel Gottesfreundschaft English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis, GA 12 (1993), ISBN 3-7274-0120-6 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriß, GA 13 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-0130-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Lucifer – Gnosis, GA 34 (1987), ISBN 3-7274-0340-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Bewußtsein – Leben – Form , GA 89 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0890-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Die Apokalypse des Johannes, GA 104 (1985), ISBN 3-7274-1040-X English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Soziales Verständnis aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis, GA 191 (1989), ISBN 3-7274-1910-5 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Initiations-Erkenntnis, GA 227 (2000), ISBN 3-7274-2271-8 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Menschenschicksale und Völkerschicksale, GA 157 (1981), ISBN 3-7274-1571-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
- Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie – Eine Zusammenfassung nach einundzwanzig Jahren, GA 234 (1994), ISBN 3-7274-2342-0 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
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