Founding of the First Waldorf School - Waldorf Research Institute

Japan, and relates it so vividly that the wings of his power ofimagination open wide and he takes the children along on hiswings, and they actually arrive in Japan. This is how RudolfSteiner could carry along those listeners who had undergonethis jolt of consciousness to beholding spiritual reality; there isa leap which transports us from our ordinary consciousness toa higher consciousness. We now want to mold our thoughtsin such away that we can have an awareness that now thespiritual world is here, now we behold the higher “I,” webehold the spirits that form the group, and we sense that astill higher spirit entity enkindles our will with a spiritualimpulse.Dear friends, it is a matter of real spiritual experiencethat each one of us can make if he becomes attentive to it.Every teacher, every speaker, every eurythmist knows thathis strength is located here in the back where the invisiblewings grow. There, the Angelos touches me, and when agroup comes together in harmony of feelings, so that theantipathies are swept away and a canon stream begins to flow,to intensify, and to become warm, a still higher spiritualitythen approaches us. The young people of today know thisvery well. They talk of the “mythos of our power” — slang inGermany — and with this refer to the group spirituality thatthey experience in their meetings. That is a caricature. Oneexperiences the higher spirituality that wants to communicateitself. One can experience this during conferences, duringmeetings. And if a mutual will-imbued resolution is made,a fire element appears that takes hold of me and carries mealong in the stream of spiritual reality. That is sensed, and thissensing is the beginning of perceptual consciousness.Dear friends, you must not be of the opinion that youdon’t have a perceptual, seeing consciousness. According to37