Clairvoyance through rigorous thinking
So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not heed them. I am the door; if any one enters by me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly. John 10:7 - 10
The preceding verses are about Jesus who has healed a man born blind.
Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind.” Some of the Pharisees near him heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains. John 9:39-41
This reminds us of Genesis and the fall doesn’t it? – the guilty pair saw that they were naked.
There is a great problem in this world with guilt, sin and karma. Fortunately many people are blind to the things that they do. If they could see the consequences of their actions they could get quite a shock.
Then there are others who say that Christ has taken care of karma – he may have cancelled karma but does he do it continually? Does he continually cancel all the new karma we create? We have just been considering this haven’t we? The cosmos rejects our errors and leaves them there for us to put right one day. The whole thing hinges on seeing.
Jesus said: I am the Door. Seeing is a door isn’t it? Seeing into the spiritual worlds means we pass through the door to spirit. The man born blind is us when we are not clairvoyant, not clear-seeing. But if we see … our guilt remains. So Christ doesn’t cancel karma when we have our clear spiritual sight and we sin.
Many of us aspire to this ability to see clearly, to see what it really going on. There are three types of people in this world. Those who have retained the old instinctive clairvoyance, they speak with spirits and they say they are channelling or talking to dead grandma. Then there are those who have lost that clairvoyance, they move around the world totally dependent on the earthly brain. Then there are those with a budding new clairvoyance, those who are using their pure thinking.
In terms of human evolution we are in an intermediate stage because we must experience a feeling of inner freedom. This means that we become blind, lose our old clairvoyance, and then through our I AM develop our spiritual eyes. This is the sight that enables us to see into the world that we will enter when we die, our spiritual homeland. But we have to develop this sight here on earth. Our physical eye was developed in our pre-earthly life, before we were born; so the spiritual eye must be acquired here on earth, before we die.
How is this eye developed? Through thinking. Through active spiritual knowledge. With healthy intelligence we can think deeply about a thing and have a spiritual understanding of it. If only we are prepared to think the thing out, and then feel it through and through. It is not clairvoyance but the activity of wrestling with knowledge that gives us spiritual eyes to use here and to use after death.
If we do have a clairvoyant insight we must work with it to bring it down into our earthly mind, into our thinking. A spiritual insight will vanish after a few days unless we grasp it and make worldly sense of it. We have to actively grasp the fleeting thoughts and bring them to the level of ordinary understanding. If we are given a clairvoyant insight by another person then to truly receive it we need to understand it in the very same way in which it is understood by them when they communicated it – otherwise, of what use is it?
So clairvoyance is not the essential task of man on earth. The task of man on earth is to understand the supersensible truths with ordinary, healthy human understanding. This is the pasture. That is exactly why Jesus says “I Am the door.”
Hi Kristina, Would you be
Hi Kristina,
Would you be willing to share your personal experience of shame and how it relates to the way you experience I-connecting. That might be a very helpful doorway!!!! Here I am thinking of you as yet another example of the Son's guiltlessness and, yet, that might not square with your experience of yourself....Rather than be overly presumptuous, I realized I could just find out how you describe your personal experience of this matter.
Thanks,
Jeff
p.s. thanks Heaven, literally, that "seeing" the Face of Christ is not dependent upon "higher" level clairvoyance, age, rank or social status! I liked what you had to say about that and am always glad when it comes up in anthroposophical contexts.