Rudolf Steiner: The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity - eBook

What kind of approach by the reader did The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity count on? It had to assume a special way of reading. It expected the reader, while reading, to go through the kind of inner experience that is, in an outward sense, really like waking up in the morning from sleep. It should invoke a feeling as though one could say: My relationship to the world in passive thinking was, at a higher level, one of being asleep, but now I am awaking. It is like knowing, at the very moment of awakening, that you have been lying passively in bed, allowing nature to have her way with your body. Then, however, you begin to be more active inwardly. You actively relate your senses to activities in the world of sounds and colors around you. You connect your bodily activity to your intentions. The experience of reading The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity should be very much like the waking moment of transition from passivity to activity, though at a higher level, of course. You should be able to say: Yes, I have certainly thought thoughts before, but my thinking took the form of allowing thoughts to flow and merely carry me along. 

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