I’ve been reading a bit about Rudolf Steiner these days so he is popping up again for our Wednesday Wisdom.
Here is an excerpt from his book How to Know Higher Worlds, which is truly about knowing the universe inside. Here is an excerpt that has a simple and profound invitation:
“We place before us a seed from a plant. Starting with this insignificant thing, the point will be to think the right thoughts intensively, and by means of these thoughts to develop certain feelings. First, we must establish what we are really seeing with our eyes. We describe to ourselves the form, color, and other properties of the seed. Then we ponder this thought: “This seed, if planted in the ground, will grow in to a complex plant.” We visualize the plant, we make it present to and in us. We build it up in imagination. Then we think: “What I now visualize in my imagination, forces of earth and light will later in reality draw forth such a plant from it.” If we can clearly form this thought easily and with the right feeling: “Within the seed already lies concealed what—as a the force of the whole plant—later grows out of it. The artificial copy of the seed has no force. Yet to my eyes, both seeds look the same. Therefore the real seed contains something invisible that is absent in the copy.”
Thoughts and feelings should now focus on this invisible reality. We must imagine that this invisible force or reality will in the course of time change into the visible plant, whose color and form we will be able to see before us. We should hold the thought: “The invisible will become visible. If I were unable to think, then what later becomes visible could not announce itself to me now.”
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