Will arises from sympathy. Will is, we might say, another aggregate state of sympathy: consolidated or condensed sympathy, which turns into action through consolidation.
Will ‹is› indeed in essence sympathy or – to put it loftily – love of the world. However, not love of the world in order to appropriate the world but for the sake of the world itself. Will is indeed ‹power›, but a very special power, namely a variant of the power of sympathy.
From Valentin Wember, Willenserziehung – 60 Pedagogical Statements from Rudolf Steiners. Tübingen 2014.
Graphic Sofia Lismont Translation Christian von Arnim
