Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/271/en

With the beginning of the fifteenth century, the fifth post-Atlantean age breaks in, in which the I enters into the third of the three soul-members, into the consciousness soul. The human being awakens, over against the objectively sensed world, to himself, to self-consciousness. There arises, for the time being, an unbridgeable gulf between the becoming-self-conscious and that which produces the world of appearances. In his self-knowing I, however, the human being can find within himself the source of spirit, the "I am," which on the one side sets itself over against the world in perception, and on the other can unite itself in cognition with the spiritual-essential being concealed within the sense-appearances. What once flowed instinctively into the experience of the soul, now it can be consciously known in its essential being and united with the being-substance of the I. Thus it lies in the power of the consciousness soul, in its thinking and doing, to transcend itself