tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post4752943777125740288..comments2024-03-26T08:30:05.306+11:00Comments on Christianity is Esoteric: The Arterial Self & the Sins of Omission- 9th January 1997Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255764266501716216.post-61822356906503493902010-09-22T06:56:06.337+10:002010-09-22T06:56:06.337+10:00"By causing the self-existent true and good t..."By causing the self-existent true and good to come to life in his inner being, man raises himself above the mere sentient soul. An imperishable light is kindled in it. In so far as the soul lives in this light, it is a participant in the Eternal [Father God] and unites its existence with it. What the soul carries within itself of the true and the good is immortal in it. Let us call what shines forth in the soul as Eternal, the Consciousness Soul. We can speak of consciousness even in connection with the lower soul stirrings. The most ordinary everyday sensation is a matter of consciousness. To this extent animals also have consciousness. The kernel of human consciousness, that is, the soul within the soul, is what is here meant by Consciousness Soul. The Consciousness Soul is thus distinguished as a member of the soul distinct from the intellectual soul, which is still entangled in the sensations, impulses and passions. Everyone knows how a man at first counts as true what he prefers in his feelings and desires. Only that truth is permanent, however, that has freed itself from all flavor of such sympathy and antipathy of feeling. The truth is true even if all personal feelings revolt against it. That part of the soul in which this truth lives will be called Consciousness Soul."<br /><br /> -Rudolf Steiner,Theosophy [my addition]Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15407139577098233830noreply@blogger.com