8. The Elementary World and its Beings

> The objectified synthesis of all European philosophy emerges: the doctrine of the polarity of contrasts and their central resolution and balance—creative indifference. This means a revolution of the entire human standpoint. We see the human complex on a rushing precipice, completely skewed toward the universal force, filled with one-sidedly differentiated energy, closed off from the entire cosmos, an arteriosclerotic giant carcass, a catastrophe in the solar system, a “digestive disorder of God.” — Here, insights converge, anthroposophy identifies with the doctrine of creative indifference, and the mystery cults of the Egyptians and the breathing exercises of the Indian yogis emerge with new meaning.