A Brief Opening of the Three Principles and Worlds in Man

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Concerning the Great Mystery of Divine Revelation, according to Time and Eternity in the Human Image.

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When we wish to behold and contemplate man in his deep inner birth, we must only turn with our soul out of the earthly, astral original: "gestirnten"; referring to the influence of the stars or the "sidereal" spirit upon the human psyche., and elementary life into the inner divine life of Jesus Christ within us. We must call upon this precious Physician for grace, that he might graciously reopen the eyes of us who are born blind by nature—eyes which the devil closed in Paradise—so that we may regain our lost Eye of LightA spiritual organ of perception capable of seeing divine truth, contrasted with the physical or rational eyes. and may recognize and behold God within us. Otherwise, this will surely remain a sealed mystery and will be incomprehensible to our rational Star-Eyeoriginal: "Stern-Auge"; the aspect of human reason governed by the "stars" or the natural, worldly order..

2. For what we see externally in man and his conduct is common to all animals, apart from speech and the natural governance of the sensory reason. And when man reaches the end of his time, he goes back into his mother, the earth, just as all animals do.