98. Impulses from East and West

Jah-veh is the impulse of heredity; he lives in the process that transmits the earth consciousness through heredity. Through this, man has the abstraction that reveals itself in him. Evil now comes when the abstractive power that is transmitted in material existence comes into existence. The will then enters the sphere of spirits that distract. Yahweh directs consciousness out of sleep, but he does not direct in consciousness. The cosmos revealing itself to waking consciousness - the spatial cosmos - is not God-revealing. No divine can be recognized through the wisdom of Yahweh. It appears only in the process of love under the validity of this wisdom, insofar as this is bound to the blood. At the time when the impulses of revelation through the blood cease, something else must step forward to complement this revelation, something that understands the human being as soul and as spirit. The human being is understood as a soul through a science of freedom and as a spirit through an anthroposophy. Modern science has simply revealed what was contained in the Jah-veh revelation; but the time has come when this revelation is in danger of falling prey to its opponents. The spirits of space want to destroy the spirit that works in space but is not present in space. They will not be able to do so if the spirit, of which man knows himself to be part in space, turns to the extra-spatial spiritual.

In the West, a consciousness directed only towards the spatial threatens to turn people into mere spatial beings, imitating a crusade; in the East, the spatial impulses want to prevent the incoming spiritual impulses from uniting with the human consciousness. In the West, people would like to make the soul forget that it has an existence outside of space; in the East, people would like to make them forget the conditions of the spatial existence itself.

The West is leading itself through its legal system into a dead end - from which it will only turn back at the “Threshold” when it perceives this legal system as a ghost; in the East, the soul, which does not want to fit into space, leads to an insoluble wavering between spirit and matter, - from which an attachment will only occur at the “threshold”, when the sensations hostile to space are felt as an nightmare. The West must not expel the Father; it is on the way to doing so – it can only come to the right way if it realizes that its present path leads to a spectre; the East must not seek the Son on the wrong path; it can only come to the right way if it perceives the confused intellect as an nightmare. The way out must be found in the spirit. The West must place the human being in the place of abstraction – by perceiving its human being as a ghost; the East must perceive its human being as a nightmare, so that it comes to understand it as a spatial being. The East must come away from its fight against the Father, the West from its fight against the Son; the West needs a spiritualization of science; the East a scientific penetration of its religious consciousness.

In the cosmos, the West must find the inner essence of nature – its inspiration; the East must find the revelation of inner spirituality through nature.

To the West it must be said: What appears to you as a human being is a spectre; you do not see the spectre because you avoid the abilities for this seeing; to the East it must be said: what appears to you as a human being, the seer feels as a nightmare; you do not feel the nightmare because you keep away from the associated sentience. To the west: You destroy the future by leading humanity into a dead end; to the east: You destroy the future by taking the light for the following path of humanity and wanting to walk it in darkness. To the west: You cut off the way; and make humanity a prisoner of the earth; to the east: You make it impossible to walk the way because you do not want to fan the light that illuminates the way. To the West: You make humanity unfree by not leading them into the sphere of freedom; to the East: You make humanity unfree by depriving them of the ability to use their own will in the sphere of freedom. To the West: You paralyze people; to the East: You blind people. —