Steiner
|
A concept borrowed from
Rudolf
Steiner, the imaginative soul is that level in mankind's development
which will come about in that stage in the evolution
of consciousness known as final participation.
The imaginative soul
lies before as an evolutionary possibility because
Another relation
between the senses and the too acutely self-conscious Ego is possible,
besides that unhappy to and fro which characterizes the life of the modern
intelligentsia. For we begin to understand how we can resolve the two once
more into one. We go back now to all the richness and colour of the sentient-soul,
but in such a way that it is redeemed. Sense-perception has become spiritual
perception. And this is precisely the dramatic choice which lies before
Imagination,
as the Romantics understood it. Either it must go boldly forward and turn
itself into clairvoyance (for clairvoyance is a partial reunion--or it
must fall back and become--at best idle fancy, at worst, sensuality. (RCA
133)
See in particular
Romanticism
Comes of Age, passim. |
|