I. Inner Evolution and Outer Possibilities for Development

But everything must happen in its time, at the right time. You only have to consider that certain things can be very good, quite excellent, if they are done by day. If the same things are to be done by night, then they are just bad. There is a time for everything, and so it is also in the great development of humanity, in the development of humanity. What was good in past centuries would be a terrible sin against humanity if it were to be maintained for the next centuries. Today we have arrived at the point in time when, in place of materialistic thinking, thinking and looking must come that lead into life in the spirit itself. What has been done in the past according to materialism must be followed by a spiritual world view, and people must be found who will do something to bring this spiritual world view into the human race and its history. They should know: If what one might call a spiritual world view does not arise at this time to complement the materialistic world view, then humanity will miss out on the right moment. But there are many other ways in which we could miss out on the most important things in our time. And we understand how it is that we can miss the most important things in our time when we now consider these two developmental trends, which were previously indicated for the individual, in the context of humanity as a whole.