עברית What is in the process of becoming must act on the soul so that as we absorb it, it becomes unconscious, but in uniting with the soul stirs in us again questions concerning becoming.
Spiritual Science is the science of Becoming
"A satisfying view can only be derived from what is in the process of becoming; it must act on the soul so that as we absorb it, it becomes unconscious, but in uniting with the soul stirs in us again questions concerning becoming".
These words of Rudolf Steiner have opened a path for me, that justified my experience, that spiritual science is not an intellectual undertaking, but a living stream of perpetual becoming, metamorphosis and intensified evolution. The initial intellectual understanding must therefore give way to an inner assimilation, letting the concepts and mental pictures flow into the unconscious forces of the soul and the bodies, below memory, into the forces of our earliest childhood. From there they will stream back again spontaneously, in the moment of the real event, with all the freshness of the original sources of the spirit, from which Rudolf Steiner communicated them.
"In the world things exist and things become, but only what is in the process of becoming is alive; what is already in existence is always dead. What is in existence is the corpse of what was becoming. In nature all around us we find 'existence,' and spiritual science confirms that this existence has arisen because once it was in a process of becoming. The 'becoming' left behind its corpse. What is in the state of existence is dead; what is becoming is alive.
This has special significance for man's inner life. We do not attain a satisfying view of things through concepts that are finished and complete, because they belong to what exists, not to what is becoming. A satisfying view can only be derived from what is in the process of becoming; it must act on the soul so that as we absorb it, it becomes unconscious, but in uniting with the soul stirs in us again questions concerning the becoming. This is also an aspect of the science of the spirit which causes difficulty for many because they prefer what is finished and complete. While the science of the spirit points to what will truly nourish the human soul, the inclination is towards the very opposite.
What people want today is to attain as quickly as possible a complete and finished view of the world. Much of what comes to expression as inner disturbances and dissatisfaction will be alleviated only when, instead of demanding finished truths, our interest awakens for participation in the coming-into-being of truth".
Rudolf Steiner, lecture of July 24, 1917, GA 176