Our Uninitiated Eyes

Not “Revelation”—’tis—that waits,

But our unfurnished eyes—

              

                Emily Dickinson

Rudolf Steiner:  "The forward progress of human evolution is at present entirely dependent upon what we might call initiation science. In other words, it will be necessary first that all branches of knowledge in human culture be filled through and through with this initiation science; but secondly, it will be necessary that all of our social thoughts and feelings be also filled through and through with the feelings and empathetic thoughts that result from supersensory revelation — we need only to turn ourselves toward it."

Rudolf Steiner:  "When someone today — please take what I am now saying as a really serious matter — has learned to think in a way perfectly adapted to meeting the demands of school examinations, when he acquires habits of thought that enable him to pass academic tests with flying colors — then his reasoning faculty will be so vitiated that even if millions of experiences of the supersensible world were handed to him on a platter, he would see them as little as you could physically see the objects in a dark room; for that which makes men fit to cope with the demands of this materialistic age darkens the space in which the supersensible worlds come toward them."

Darkness Visible

Rudolf Steiner:  "This wish to draw things solely out of natural-scientific thoughts, as is customary today, and to accept as true only what comes from these thoughts, is what builds the walls of occult imprisonment."

Rudolf Steiner:  "What people today call the results of science is, in fact, the result of the Kali Yuga, the utmost darkening of human mentality."

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner:  "The Bodhisattva is already waiting, but people have first of all to make themselves capable, in sufficient numbers, of understanding him."

Rudolf Steiner:  "Most of what we are aware of in life is actually the least that there is in life."

The spirit world is not closed;
Your eyes are closed, your heart is dead!
Faust – Goethe

Novalis:  "The spirit world is indeed already unlocked for us; it is always revealed. If we suddenly became as elastic as we should be, we should see ourselves in the midst of it."

William Blake:  "If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern."

1 Corinthians 13:12:  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

"Open the shutters!"  — Goethe's last words

"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you"  — Matthew 7:7

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."  — John 8:32

Revelation 3:14-22

And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Source of first Steiner quote: January 17, 1920 GA 196. What Is Necessary in These Urgent Times, p. 62

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