What does it mean to rouse or awaken the spirit?
This question cannot be properly answered here but it should suffice to say that the first step on the road to awakening the spirit is to seek spiritual knowledge. It is this knowledge that will show the way to rousing the spirit. Rousing the spirit means making a great effort to dig deep into ourselves and discover the spirit within us, which has been buried for thousands of years. We awaken it thereby, making it work or making its activity visible on earth. For a long time already, the kind of activity we have seen on earth are those of the intellect. We have seen only intellectual works on earth. We have failed to develop a major part of our being, in fact the only part of our being. We have therefore been incomplete human beings. To be complete however, we must use our spirits. It is the only thing that is living. In fact, we are this spirit, but we have kept it suppressed through thousands of years of intellectual domination. The verb words rouse or awaken means that we have the a
