Rudolf Steiner:
59.
Open-minded contemplation of Thinking shows that the thoughts of the ordinary
consciousness have no existence of their own, but arise only as the reflected
images of something. Man, however, feels himself to be alive in his thoughts.
The thoughts are not alive, but he himself is living in them. This life has its
source in Spirit-beings, whom we may describe (in the sense of my book Occult Science)
as the beings of the Third Hierarchy — a kingdom of the Spirit.
60. Extended
to the life of Feeling, the same open-minded contemplation shows that the
feelings, though they arise out of the body, cannot have been created by it. For
their life bears in it a character independent of the bodily organism. With his
bodily nature man can feel himself to be within the world of Nature. Yet just in
realizing this with true self-understanding, he will feel that with his world of
Feeling he is in a spiritual kingdom. This is the kingdom of the Second
Hierarchy.
61. As a
being of Will, man's attention is directed not to his own bodily nature, but to
the outer world. When he desires to walk he does not ask ‘What do I feel in my
feet?’ but ‘What is the goal out there, which I desire to reach?’ In willing,
man forgets his body. In his Will he belongs not to his own nature, but to the
Spirit-kingdom of the First Hierarchy.
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