Life in the Spiritual World after Death in the Physical World: Anthroposophical Leading Thoughts #26, #27, #28

 

Rudolf Steiner:
 

26. Only when the astral body has been laid aside — when the judgment of his life is over — man enters the spiritual world. There he stands in like relation to beings of purely spiritual character as on Earth to the beings and processes of the Nature-kingdoms. In spiritual experience, everything that was his outer world on Earth now becomes his inner world. He no longer merely perceives it, but experiences it in its spiritual being which was hidden from him on Earth, as his own world.

27. In the Spirit-realm, man as he is on Earth becomes an outer world. We gaze upon him, even as on Earth we gaze upon the stars and clouds, the mountains and rivers. Nor is this ‘outer world’ any less rich in content than the glory of the Cosmos as it appears to us in earthly life.

28. The forces begotten by the human Spirit in the Spirit-realm work on in the fashioning of earthly Man, even as the deeds we accomplish in the Physical work on as a content of the soul in the life after death.




Source: http://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0026/English/RSP1973/GA026_index.html