Rudolf Steiner Audio CW 205 The Human Being as Body and Soul: Lecture 7 (Dornach, 3 July 1921) by Rudolf Steiner
Jan 1, 2026
Explores why inner organs and outer reality remain hidden behind a sensory veil. Discusses memory as an organ-bound reflection and how suspending ordinary memory can open spiritual perception. Contrasts head-centered thinking with limb-based will and warns of a culture that could become all mind or all mechanism. Calls for imaginative concepts and spiritual education to preserve individuality.
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Keep Practical Sense Before Occult Work
- Do preserve a healthy common-sense memory before pursuing occult development because ordinary memory must be temporarily undermined to experience true visions.
- Steiner warns occult students to maintain everyday practicality and resist nebulous mystical dabbling.
The Veil Of Senses Protects Capacity For Love
- If we could see through the senses into things themselves we would lose our separateness and become unable to develop love.
- Steiner argues the sensory veil preserves individuality so love can arise between separate beings.
Thoughts Transform After Death Into Images And Inspiration
- At death thoughts convert into images, then into inspiration and intuition during the afterlife stages that prepare the next incarnation.
- Steiner links imagination, inspiration, intuition sequence to soul growth and later formation of the head in embryo.