Becoming blue and floating away are one and the same thing

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "When, however, this has been developed, when we know that if the forces of the soul float away, become blue (becoming blue and floating away are one and the same thing), this means to be taken up with sympathy — whereas becoming yellow is to be repelled and is identical with antipathy — well, then we have forces such as these within us. Let us say that we have experienced this coloring of the soul when we are taken up sympathetically and that we do not, in this case, confront a physical being at all, but that it is possible through our developed soul-forces for a spiritual being with whom we are in sympathy to flow into us. This is the way in which we can perceive the beings of the higher hierarchies and the beings of the elemental world."

Source: May 2, 1915. GA 161

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