๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ง๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐
"The opinion that there are limits to human cognition that cannot be overstepped, compelling man to stop short before an invisible world, must be replied to by saying that there can be no doubt about the impossibility of finding access to the invisible world with the kind of cognition referred to here. Whoever considers that form of cognition to be the only possible one cannot come to any other opinion than that the human being is denied access to a possibly existent higher world.
Yet the following may also be stated. If it is possible to develop another kind of cognition, this then may well lead into the supersensible world. If this kind of cognition is considered to be impossible, then we reach a point of view from which all talk about a supersensible world appears as pure nonsense.
From an impartial viewpoint, however, the only reason for such an opinion can be the fact that the person holding it has no knowledge of this other kind of cognition. Yet how can a person pass judgment upon something about which he himself admits his ignorance?
Unprejudiced thinking must hold to the premise that a person should speak only of what he knows and should not make statements about something he does not know. Such thinking can only speak of the right that a person has to communicate what he himself has experienced, but it cannot speak of the right that somebody declare impossible what he does not know or does not wish to know. ๐๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ซ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ข๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐๐ฅ๐, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ฒ ๐ ๐จ๐จ๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ง ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ง ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ก๐ ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ๐ฌ๐๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ, ๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐๐ฅ๐ฌ๐จ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ง ๐๐๐ง ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ.
In the case of those who declare that it is presumptuous to penetrate into the domain of the supersensible an occult-scientific exposition has to call attention to the fact that this can be done, and that it is a transgression against the faculties bestowed upon man if we allow them to stagnate, instead of developing and making use of them."
Rudolf Steiner, Occult Science, Chapter 1, GA 13.