The reason people do not usually speak about suprasensory worlds is simply because they do not understand the sensory and . . . do not even understand what once was known by spiritual human culture but has since been lost and has become outer convention: art.
Once we learn to understand art, we have real proof for human immortality and for the human being’s unbornness [pre-birth existence]. And this is what we need so that consciousness broadens beyond the horizon that is limited by birth and death, so that we relate what we have within ourselves in our physical earth life with the supra-physical life.
If we work to recognize the spiritual world, to imagine the spiritual world, to take it up into thinking, into feeling, into perception, and into willing, out of a knowledge that addresses it directly as spiritual science does, then there will be fertile ground for an art that combines, so to speak, what comes from pre-birth with what comes after death.
—Rudolf Steiner, “The Suprasensory Origin of Art,” lecture of September 12, 1920, in Art and Theory of Art: Foundations of a New Aesthetics
Once we learn to understand art, we have real proof for human immortality and for the human being’s unbornness [pre-birth existence]. And this is what we need so that consciousness broadens beyond the horizon that is limited by birth and death, so that we relate what we have within ourselves in our physical earth life with the supra-physical life.
If we work to recognize the spiritual world, to imagine the spiritual world, to take it up into thinking, into feeling, into perception, and into willing, out of a knowledge that addresses it directly as spiritual science does, then there will be fertile ground for an art that combines, so to speak, what comes from pre-birth with what comes after death.
—Rudolf Steiner, “The Suprasensory Origin of Art,” lecture of September 12, 1920, in Art and Theory of Art: Foundations of a New Aesthetics
