Spiritual Science. The Gospel. The Future of Mankind

Then man descended, the earlier form of consciousness changed into the modern. Colours and forms are no longer perceived as floating in space, colour is laid upon the surfaces of sense-objects. In the same measure as man learnt to direct his senses to the outer world, did this outer world draw itself like a veil, like the great Maya, over the world of spirit. And humanity had to receive tidings of the spiritual world through this sheath, religion became necessary.