Conditions of Consciousness

The following seven Conditions of Consciousness or stages of consciousness ({{DeS|Bewusstseinsstufen) arise in the course of world evolution:

1. Trance consciousness, all-consciousness (Old Saturn)
2. Sleep consciousness, dreamless sleep consciousness (Old Sun)
3. Image consciousness, dream consciousness (Old Moon)
4. Waking consciousness, object consciousness (Earth)
5. Psychic consciousness, conscious image consciousness, imagination (New Jupiter)
6. Super-psychic consciousness, conscious sleep consciousness, inspiration (New Venus)
7. Spiritual consciousness, conscious all-consciousness, intuition (Vulcan)

Man has already developed the first three levels, which at present essentially form our subconscious, in the past; today we have object consciousness and the three highest levels of consciousness will emerge on the future embodiments of our planetary system. Through systematic spiritual training, man can already anticipate something of these later levels of consciousness today.

Literatur

• Rudolf Steiner: Kosmogonie, GA 94 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-0940-1 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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