An Outline of Religious Ideas in post-Atlantean Times

You will see everywhere, in medicine and in other fields, how the spiritual connection has increasingly disappeared. You can follow this everywhere. And this process must be so, because the process of the post-Atlantic period is such that the original connection with the supersensible world must increasingly be lost. Today we can predict the course of science. Outward science will not, however much experiments are made, be capable of spiritual deepening. It will increasingly merge with that which is a higher instruction in technical skills, a means of mastering the outer world. For the Pythagoreans, mathematics was still a means of looking into the context of the higher worlds, into the harmony of the world; for today's man, it is a means of further developing technology and thus of mastering the outer world. The course of outer science will be secularized and unphilosophized. All people will have to draw their impulses from spiritual development. And this spiritual development will take the path to spiritual Christianity. Spiritual science will be that which is capable of giving the impulses for every spiritual life.