Inspiration

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Inspiration - also called superpsychic consciousness - unites in itself our present-day object consciousness, psychic consciousness (imagination) and sleep consciousness on a higher level. Naturally, man will only have this consciousness on the New Venus.

Transition from imagination to inspiration

In the transition to inspiration, the inner images created in the imagination have to be taken away again. This requires a strong inner force. In complete wakefulness, a state of empty consciousness thus arises at first. The human being is now completely freed from his body, which he received from his parents through birth or conception. This transition is felt as a painful deprivation. But the consciousness does not remain empty for long, in that one now comes to know one's own deeper soul-spiritual being, which one already possessed before one's earthly existence.

„But the consciousness then does not remain empty for long. It fills itself. Just as the ordinary consciousness fills itself with colours through the perceptions of the eye, and with sounds through the ear, so now this empty consciousness fills itself with a spiritual world, which is just as much in the periphery as the ordinary physical world is here. Only the empty consciousness discovers the spiritual world, that spiritual world which is neither here on Earth nor in space in the cosmos, but which is outside of space and time, but which nevertheless constitutes our deepest human beinghood. For if before we learned to look with the condensed consciousness of thought at our whole life on earth as at a unity, now we look with the fulfilled, at first empty consciousness out into that world which we have gone through in a soul-spiritual life before we descended into earthly existence. We now get to know ourselves as a being that was spiritually present before birth and conception, that lived in a pre-earthly existence before our earthly existence. We learn to recognise ourselves as a spiritual-soul human being who has received the body he carries with him, handed down from parents and forefathers, handed down in such a way that he can change it, as I said, every seven years, but who has brought in what he is according to his actual nature from the pre-earthly existence. This cannot be learnt through theories or through spintising thinking; it can only be learned by developing the corresponding abilities in intellectual modesty.

Thus we now get to know the inner human being, the actual spiritual-soul being. It comes to us when we descend into the region of feeling, not only feeling but also recognising. But first we have to realise that the struggle for knowledge is connected with strong inner experiences, which I can describe in the following way. If you have tied up some part of your physical organism, if you cannot move it, if someone ties two fingers together, you feel it as unpleasant, perhaps as painful. Now you are in a state where you experience the spiritual-mental without the body. Now you do not have the whole physical human being with you, for now you live in an empty consciousness. The transition to this is connected with a deep feeling of pain. Through the experience of pain, of deprivation, you gain access to that which is our deepest spiritual-soul being. Many people shy away from this. But there is no other way of enlightening oneself about the real human being than in this way.“ (Lit.:GA 319, p. 152f)

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.

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