"raise oneself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English. It is often used in the context of improving one's own well-being or situation. For example, "She was determined to raise herself out of poverty.".
In order to raise oneself beyond the merely aesthetic life, which is a life of drifting in imagination, possibility and sensation, one needs to make a commitment.
Hence Novalis's call for a romanticizing of the world does not involve perceiving it through a new or different lens, but the ability to raise oneself to a state of critical self-understanding.
Mysticism is the raising of oneself to their level".
(Of course, dressing like "oneself" raises other problems of authenticity).
Did you know that hearing about terror and vitriol about oneself raises blood pressure?
'Psychosomatic illness', in popular usage, tends to connote deception, if not of others then at least of oneself, raising sensitive questions about wilful motivation and individual culpability (Lawrie, 2000; Stone et al., 2004).
The really important questions about tertiary education – what its purpose is, what its long-term consequences are for the country, how those consequences are changed by the way we pay for it – we are no longer allowed to ask; purely by raising them, one puts oneself outside the spectrum of normality.
Ludwig does not simply clarify my doubts with English writing, it enlightens my writing with new possibilities
Simone Ivan Conte
Software Engineer at Adobe, UK