Imagination transports our thought beyond our immediate fixed knowledge. It is intuitive, and therefore reactive upon an altogether higher plane, giving emphasis to qualities rather than components. The quality of something speaks to us distinctly, but not always perceptibly as to why.
The reasoning that we may come to with direct insight brings the knowledge transcended as from above, from the heart working outwards; whereas the reasoning which follows a stipulated course of conjecture works its way up and into the heart in correspondence (if it is correct).
Rudolf Steiner & Errors
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Lecture of 8 May 1912:
"Let us assume, let us really assume, that in fifty years everything has
to be corrected, that no stone of our spiritual edifice, ...
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