Grail-imagination

The Grail-imagination forms the spiritual source of the stories of the Holy Grail. It reveals itself through the spiritual retrospection of the etheric body. When the human being is asleep, the I and the astral body are partially lifted out of the human organisation, leaving behind the etheric body and the physical body (see also → members). Human consciousness thereby dims to that of dreamless sleep. If, however, consciousness can be maintained through appropriate spiritual training, the physical body left behind is transformed before the spiritual gaze into the paradise-imagination. Subsequently, the spiritual vision of the etheric body condenses into the Grail-imagination.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Welche Bedeutung hat die okkulte Entwicklung des Menschen für seine Hüllen und sein Selbst?, GA 145 (1986), Sechster Vortrag, Den Haag, 25. März 1913 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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