330. Again, "subconsciousness" is divided into two factors: "day-consciousness" and "night-consciousness". One should understand that "day-consciousness" refers to the individual's waking, conscious, volitional function of thought, and the transmission of the latter into manifestation and visible matter or substance, together with the reactions of this transmission as mentally-conscious experienced events.
      This mentally-conscious experience is the I's highest form of experience, for in comparison all other forms of experience are as "dream-experiences", that is to say experiences which are to a greater or lesser degree not under the control of the individual himself, indeed they are even sometimes of such a nature that they wholly escape his mentally-conscious awareness and thus become unconscious experiences. That such unconscious experiences really do exist is amply revealed by terrestrial man's ignorance, for example, ignorance as to the causes of illness or the reasons for an unhappy fate etc. It thus becomes clearly evident that the individual experiences a number of phenomena which in actual fact are the effects of experiences met with outside his awake, mental, or "day-consciousness". As the effects obviously are there as facts, one cannot deny that the causes must also have been there; however one has no knowledge of them, for they have not been within the scope of "day-consciousness" in the same way as are the effects for instance, of illness or the dark side of fate. If the causes had lain within the scope of conscious awareness, one would have been better able to construct a defence against them. That one's knowledge gradually does expand and consequently one comes to grasp these hidden causes, only proves that "day-consciousness" is developing and that now it is possible to take in more and more of the interaction between oneself and substances with a clear conscious perspective. This conscious perspective or "day-consciousness" is thus the seat where the individual's "will" resides. Through it the living being directs his entire future fate. The tendencies he follows here will determine the whole of his well-being, the building or destruction of bodily and of spiritual health, the cultivation of his physique and his relationship to his surroundings. Therefore, "day-consciousness" is the living being's highest form of experience. On account of this life-experience, the individual's identity as a son of God and his eternal existence or immortality, emerges as a realistic experience, a conscious fact and thereby a blissful, vital life.