1383 Concept of the supernatural....

April 16, 1940: Book 23

The unconscious state of prejudice against everything supersensible is often the cause of blindly walking through earthly life, for understandably only a certain realization can illuminate the path, but this realization can only be gained again through research.... however, everything that lies outside the earth can only be explored again by making use of those forces that are called supersensible, so these must not be eliminated, but the work of such forces must be regocnized. A conscious effort must be made to connect with them in order to become clairvoyant for life on earth. And this requires a certain devotion, but at the same time it also requires the will of the human being to connect with the spiritual. For this endeavour has nothing in common with the earthly desire to possess. He who seeks to fathom supersensible things will not expect or aim at any earthly advantage but will only think of his soul; he will furthermore abandon himself to those powers and thereby regocnize that they are knowing and thus want to accept any teaching from them. He will feel the superiority of these powers and subordinate himself to them, and now the powers in the beyond can also exert their full influence on such a willing earthly child. A person who surrenders to these forces must therefore have a great advantage in spiritual terms, for he is, so to speak, at the source of all knowledge, and even if some things still seem inexplicable to him, he nevertheless accepts everything supernatural and has the deepest understanding for spiritual truths....

All too often wrong and right concepts of the supersensible mix, and that is the cause that the right understanding can only be found there where one has the will to accept what is right. There the will for truth is present and accordingly also the spirit in man is active, and when this spirit now points him to what exists outside of the earth-bound, then man also regocnizes such indications as truth and now also grasps the work of spiritual powers on the other side much sooner, and it now no longer appears supernatural to him, but natural.... Only now does the supernatural explain to him everything that was previously incomprehensible, and he senses that he is only now standing in the truth as he surrenders himself to those forces. Only now does everything seem to make sense to him, and the state of prejudice against the supersensible gives way to a state of complete affirmation of it. He has now crossed a boundary that he believed he was not entitled to cross or that he simply did not want to admit existed.... He has thus crossed over into another realm that his mind previously refused to accept.... He now wanders through this realm in all directions, he repeatedly encounters new areas which are foreign to him and whose exploration stimulates him and makes him happy in his life on earth. For only now is the meaning of earthly life understandable to him, only now does he know his task, and all this gives him an increased zest for life (because) the supersensible is no longer separate from what his senses grasp. Only the spiritual connection with life outside the earth.... the recognition of it.... allows man to consciously immerse himself in the most diverse problems, whereas previously all these problems remained unresolved or were dismissed as unsolvable if they really arise in the heart of man.... but for the most part do not affect the person at all, for he does not waste his thoughts on things that seem unimportant to him. And therefore he will remain completely unimpressed and ignorant who is prejudiced against that which is not tangible or obvious to him.... He blocks his own path to all knowledge, for the latter cannot be found without spiritual strength.... But spiritual power is something invisible and intangible to man.... spiritual power is independent of the earth and its laws, spiritual power cannot be felt with the senses of man, but can be received with the heart at any time. It can therefore never be fathomed by the senses.... it is supersensible. It belongs to that realm which is infinite, which is more than the earth. It is the spiritual power of the stream of life that flows through everything that is.... that emanates from God and is supplied to everything that is God's creation.... And the earth is only a particle of the whole creation; it must therefore be understandable to man that this earth cannot be purpose and goal at the same time, that rather the goal of the beings inhabiting the earth must be another world.... a world which their senses cannot yet grasp, which is therefore supersensible....

Amen

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