In winter time the spirit has to do mainly with itself. It is the wonderful time of the inner knowing light that can get to know itself. Now, however, the human spirit turns to the outward and meets the beauty in nature that is coming to life. Then the life force comes from the far distances into the body and unites the essence ... read more...
Now the desire to grow, the germinating and growing power of the world-being want to be carried into the human I. As a result, the enchantment in which the spirit of worldliness lies is broken, and these growing forces become accessible to the I.... read more...
The image of Plato's cave is given a new shape in the Middle Ages (12th century) in the Parsival Saga. There is told about a castle, 'unreachable for our steps'. There are two famous versions of this saga, a German one by Wolfram von Eschenbach, and the older French version by Chrestien de Troyes. The story by Wolfram von Eschen... read more...
'I am she who have fashioned the form and eminence of man into the likeness of the original mundane mechanism, that in him, as in a mirror of the world itself, combined nature may appear. For just as, of the four elements, the concordant discord, the single plurality, the dissonant consonance, the dissenting agreement, produce t... read more...
Taking his start from such presuppositions, Troxler has an inkling of a “higher man” within the man that experiences himself in the sense world; this “higher man” underlies the sense-perceptible man and belongs to the supersensible world; and in this view Troxler feels himself to be in harmony with what F... read more...