Max, you do not believe in direct experience? "In this case, the word is creating in you an organ to perceive the correlative phenomenon, which before would have remained imperceptible." There are no such "correlative phenomena," except for the labels themselves. Saying "the world" really does not add very much at all. There is no organic necessity to tie together the fence, the mailbox, etc. I have long been curious to you, Max. I subscribe to you, too. But, beyond the quotation above, I could not follow it. It started quite well b.t.w.
''We are not beings who produce what we know and understand just for ourselves. No, we provide through our own souls the stage on which the world first comes to experience some of its existence and becoming. If there were no (human) knowledge and understanding, the world would remain incomplete.....In my concept of knowing, we ourselves are co-creators of the world and not mere copiers of something that could be taken away from the world without lessening its completeness.''
Henry Barnes Quoting Rudolf Steiner In His Book Life for the Spirit; Rudolf Steiner in the Crosscurrents of Our Time
As Valentin Tomberg suggests, revelation is limited not because it is false, but so that it can be true. But if we take seriously that the world itself is a metaphor, say, for God's love, then the secret to the universe really is in poetry, language, thought. In Kabbalah, the entire world is considered a metaphor for what is too big to be revealed all at once. There's even a story that God wrote a great book with golden letters and then tore it up on purpose, scattering the letters; then he looked to us and said, "Put it back together."
Max, you do not believe in direct experience? "In this case, the word is creating in you an organ to perceive the correlative phenomenon, which before would have remained imperceptible." There are no such "correlative phenomena," except for the labels themselves. Saying "the world" really does not add very much at all. There is no organic necessity to tie together the fence, the mailbox, etc. I have long been curious to you, Max. I subscribe to you, too. But, beyond the quotation above, I could not follow it. It started quite well b.t.w.
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is it three 1's or one 3? ☝️
''We are not beings who produce what we know and understand just for ourselves. No, we provide through our own souls the stage on which the world first comes to experience some of its existence and becoming. If there were no (human) knowledge and understanding, the world would remain incomplete.....In my concept of knowing, we ourselves are co-creators of the world and not mere copiers of something that could be taken away from the world without lessening its completeness.''
Henry Barnes Quoting Rudolf Steiner In His Book Life for the Spirit; Rudolf Steiner in the Crosscurrents of Our Time
As Valentin Tomberg suggests, revelation is limited not because it is false, but so that it can be true. But if we take seriously that the world itself is a metaphor, say, for God's love, then the secret to the universe really is in poetry, language, thought. In Kabbalah, the entire world is considered a metaphor for what is too big to be revealed all at once. There's even a story that God wrote a great book with golden letters and then tore it up on purpose, scattering the letters; then he looked to us and said, "Put it back together."