8. The Elementary World and its Beings

Yes, you see, the learned people of the older generation were not very interested in integrating anthroposophy into their science. So younger friends gradually came along, but because of their more inwardly coherent soul nature, they felt the need to deal with anthroposophy in their science as well. And so, on the one hand, you had, forgive me, the mob that attacked anthroposophy, and on the other hand, the younger people who now wanted to engage with their sciences from an anthroposophical perspective. This meant that, in a completely natural way, from outside, the scientific work was able to take place. And then, of course, it couldn't be that in university courses and congresses, I myself would have spoken in a way that was, I don't want to say unscientific, but anti-scientific, that is, apart from science. And so, through what came from the world, these institutions, these enterprises, acquired a kind of scientific character, which was also demanded by the fact that anthroposophy gradually had to intervene in practical life, even in therapy. All this, as I said, came to anthroposophy as a demand from the world. As I said, if older friends take into account that esotericism is still continuing, and are content with this, taking note out of general interest of how the scientific current flows when it is fertilized by anthroposophy, then they will soon come to the conclusion: We go to the conferences, we hear things about differential equations, integrals, and so on, and we find: Yes, now things have changed somewhat, but it is necessary that they have changed in this way.