Realms
All that surrounds us in the world of sense — all we can perceive through our senses and understand with our intellect, which is bound to the senses — it's not the whole world, but that behind it all lies a spiritual world. And in this spiritual world lies not in some undefined “beyond” but surrounds us here and now in exactly the same way as color and light phenomena surround a person born blind. But in order to perceive our environment we need an organ of perception. And just as a blind man cannot see colors or light, so man of our age cannot, as a rule, perceived the spiritual facts and beings surrounding him here if he possesses only his normal powers of perception. But when we are lucky enough to perform a successful operation upon a blind person, there comes to him the moment of and “awakening” of the eye, and what previously did not exist for him, color and light, now flows into him. A new world is now perceptible to him. In a similar manner a higher awakening is possible on the Spiritual plane — that awakening which leads to initiation into the world of the spirit. #rudolfsteiner
Realms
All that surrounds us in the world of sense — all we can perceive through our senses and understand with our intellect, which is bound to the senses — it's not the whole world, but that behind it all lies a spiritual world. And in this spiritual world lies not in some undefined “beyond” but surrounds us here and now in exactly the same way as color and light phenomena surround a person born blind. But in order to perceive our environment we need an organ of perception. And just as a blind man cannot see colors or light, so man of our age cannot, as a rule, perceived the spiritual facts and beings surrounding him here if he possesses only his normal powers of perception. But when we are lucky enough to perform a successful operation upon a blind person, there comes to him the moment of and “awakening” of the eye, and what previously did not exist for him, color and light, now flows into him. A new world is now perceptible to him. In a similar manner a higher awakening is possible on the Spiritual plane — that awakening which leads to initiation into the world of the spirit. #rudolfsteiner