Quotes About Supersensible

By immersing ourselves with our consciousness in a supersensible world, we now learn a new kind of thinking, a new life of mental pictures, one that is not dependent on the nervous system in the way ordinary thinking is. We know that previously we have had to make use of our nervous system, but now we no longer need our brain.

Through systematic exercising of our thinking faculties, we can train ourselves for exact clairvoyance. Imaginative Knowledge is the first step in supersensible perception, and through it we reach the first element of the supersensible it is possible to reach, namely, the supersensible body that we bear within our earthly body in physical space.

For a hypothetically supersensible being, there would be no "flowing" of time: the universe would be a single block of past, present, and future.

Each human beings has the sense organs that can experience Spirit; it is just that these organs go undeveloped in most people. The capability of perception is there, but various are the reasons it lies undeveloped. Some people are unaware that these supra-realities exist, others are aware but do not know how to develop the supersensible organs to perceive them, and finally there are those who know but who are afraid.

We must carry out exercises in thought and exercises in will if the portals of the supersensible world are to open for us. It is this world that we must enter if we want to know the eternal aspect of ourselves and of the universe.