You certainly noticed that quite spontaneously you gained more inner insight into your outer experience,” Sol said to his sister. ”This is due to the fact that we are getting closer and closer to the rings of knowledge. Because of the exercises of the pupils, the forces of cognition are more and more enlivened within us, and thus a natural understanding of all events of nature grows within us.”

“It is the cognitive forces that move the whole world and that keep it moving; but the same impulses of happiness also inspire our fantasy, and thus the colourful impressions of the outer worldly phenomena appear within us.
But still they are only a mirror-image of our own inner enlivened mental world. For, whatever the mind does not comprehend, the eye does not comprehend either, nor does the ear, nor touch, smell or taste.”

“Due to incomplete memories, but also through doubt, through the distrust that comes with it, and the fear that follows, the clear image of reality within our mind is being distorted during our cognitive process.”

“In this manner those impressions form which we call bad, uncomfortable and ugly. The scenes with the ugly gigantic women or the grim warriors therefore were only the expression of an inner incomplete attitude of mind.”

“An incomplete inner view always allows only incomplete, unsatisfying outer impressions.
But if we succeed in opening our mind to more complete experience - which first of all depends on our emotions being mitigated - then higher, more perfect worlds of cognition are accessible to us, and we see the world more and more the way it really is.”

“Therefore the distorted, less clear, negative picture of the world with the giantesses changed so impressively after your deep invigorating rest, into the lively world of happiness and perfect harmony, and from a higher level of insight you saw the three wonder-working fairies and their lovely miraculous play in the world of enlightenment.”

“Many think, from their personal and restricted view, that winter and summer are opposed to each other, or even enemies, or that they excluded each other.
This is the impression we gained from the battle of the glowing fire-warriors with the frosty ice-men.”

“But this notion comes from the imperfect coordination of the faculties of feeling and understanding when observing natural events; for if someone is not in agreement within himself about what is right or wrong - when his feeling says something is right, and his understanding tells him something else is right, and he cannot integrate the two findings - then the whole outer world appears to him on the basis of his own inner discord.”

“In the footsteps of this discord follows the inner doubt, and is joined again by oneis own rejection of the events in the environment that seem to assail one.
And from there, due to the imperfect mastery of the inner human forces, rises the oppressive state of personal fear.”