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From the book:
We can see from Rudolf Steiner’s definition and description of enlightenment that it is quite different than the Western esoteric student’s understanding of the term. If, as Rudolf Steiner indicates, enlightenment should come before initiation, then enlightenment must be more common than one might think. Enlightenment — otherwise called Moral Imagination by Rudolf Steiner — is a step towards the spirit, not the final step or the ‘be all and end all’ of spiritual development. Enlightenment/Moral Imagination is the first of three steps to claim the higher spiritual nature of the human being — Moral Imagination/Spirit-Self, Moral Inspiration/Life-Spirit, and Moral Intuition/Spirit-Human.
From the book:
We can see from Rudolf Steiner’s definition and description of enlightenment that it is quite different than the Western esoteric student’s understanding of the term. If, as Rudolf Steiner indicates, enlightenment should come before initiation, then enlightenment must be more common than one might think. Enlightenment — otherwise called Moral Imagination by Rudolf Steiner — is a step towards the spirit, not the final step or the ‘be all and end all’ of spiritual development. Enlightenment/Moral Imagination is the first of three steps to claim the higher spiritual nature of the human being — Moral Imagination/Spirit-Self, Moral Inspiration/Life-Spirit, and Moral Intuition/Spirit-Human.
