Our Thought Life in Sleep and Wakefulness and in the Afterlife

Basically, an inner delight should arise in the soul—I am talking again about what is brought about by thoughts that are drawn out of the spiritual realm with all their vitality—an inner delight should arise in the soul when it can say to itself: It is like scales falling from one's eyes when one can say to oneself that human beings are free, and when one can look at the reasons for this freedom. As long as there are only people who, with ingenious cleverness — I do not deny this to anthroposophists — understand anthroposophy and profess it as a way of thinking, anthroposophy will not yet be alive. At the moment when, in the face of particularly important insights, souls are filled with delight and become joyfully excited by this or that insight, only then, when such people feel themselves to be anthroposophists, does the anthroposophical movement come into being. It actually arises as an anthroposophical movement in the whole human being. Then it also finds its equilibrium.