The School of Spiritual Science IX

During the anthroposophical events in Prague described above, the School of Spiritual Science was able to unfold its activity outside the area of the Goetheanum for the first time. In two events of the first class of the General Anthroposophical Section, I was able to present the first steps of the supersensible quest for knowledge to the souls of those personalities who had decided to become members of this class. These esoteric events took place on April 3 and 5. What was experienced at the first such event at the Goetheanum was also brought before the members of the school in Czechoslovakia.

The number of those personalities who, upon their declaration to that effect, were allowed to become members was over a hundred. This showed that the society in Czechoslovakia has a core of loyal members who, over the course of many years, have made anthroposophy the guiding force of their soul life. It was deeply satisfying for me to be able to look into the souls of those I had long faced at the Prague events. In the eyes of many, I could see their intimate connection to the anthroposophical life content. I became aware of many open-minded hearts. These are necessary for the cultivation of esoteric life. For reason is powerless here if it does not receive strength from the understanding heart. This understanding of the heart is truly no less 'logical' than that of the head. It is just not given such recognition in ordinary life because in this life it has no need to unfold the inner power of a supersensible 'logic'. In such cases, logic is replaced by the intellect, and the heart is allowed to follow its own path untouched by logic, because it can be corrected by the intellect. The fear that often arises when the logic of the heart is ignored is based on the belief that when it does so, the heart loses the warmth that is otherwise its own. But this fear only exists as long as one has not grasped the warmth that the soul experiences when it stands in understanding before the ideas of a spiritual world. He who does not feel this warmth does not live in the ideas of the spirit; he only thinks the ideas he has first killed in his soul, which he hears in the words into which someone who has seen into the spiritual world has poured his spiritual-real experiences.