Sense of sight

The sense of sight is one of the twelve physical senses that Rudolf Steiner spoke of in his theory of the senses. Visual perception is also called eyesight in an outdated, but in the occult sense quite appropriate, way, because in visual perception the inner light meets the outer, as Goethe also pointed out in his Theory of Colours. Through the sense of sight we perceive light and dark and the world of colours; it thus forms only a part of the more comprehensive visual perception, in which other sensory activities are also involved. Shapes, for example, are first perceived by the eye's own sense of movement and related to the perpendicular by the sense of balance. Only binocular vision enables spatial, steroscopic vision through the coordinated movement of both eyes. However, even with monocular vision, a certain monocular depth perception can be achieved through appropriate mental activity.

The faculty for the sense of sight was created on the Old Sun together with the light ether.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Anthroposophie – Psychosophie – Pneumatosophie, GA 115 (2001), ISBN 3-7274-1150-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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