"The 'I' every man knows is indeed his self but is not his ultimate self. . . It is the discovery during wakefulness that the wakeful personality is also an idea that constitutes the first crucial stage of his liberation from ignorance. . .
Other beings, who have already gone through the experience of mortal life and death (and perhaps other states of being) and rejoined their former eternal life in the supersensible realm, are continuing their eternal spiritual evolution toward the goal of henosis: total union with the Divine One. These beings love you and are interested in what you have done and are now doing in the terrestrial domain. They are actively involved in your life, in both a direct and indirect manner. In a supramundane manner, they are as involved in your present earthly life as you are. You can, through awareness of your supersensible life, gain awareness of their presence and influence in your present terrestrial life.
"It seems to the student ever more and more as though the solution of the riddles over which he ponders is whispered to him in tones and words out of a higher world. And he is able to connect with ordinary life whatever comes to him from a higher world. What was formerly only accessible to his thought now becomes actual experience, just as living and substantial as an experience in this physical world can be. The things and beings of this physical world are by no means only what they appear to be for physical perception. They are the expression and effluence of a spiritual world. This spiritual world, hitherto concealed from the student, now resounds for him out of his whole environment. . .
"What the senses perceive is only part of the Supersensible Plenum, and it is in the spirit world that the beings dwell who express themselves in the facts of the physical world. Man must become a partaker of the spirit in order to carry its revelations into the physical world. He transforms the earth by implanting in it what he has ascertained in the spiritual world. That is his task. . .