43. The Spiritual Guidance of Man and Humanity III

This special task - to create a balance between the principles of clairvoyance and initiation - once approached the leadership of mankind. It was necessary for humanity to receive guidance and direction in order to establish the right balance between clairvoyance and initiation. The question arises: When did this have to happen? It became necessary at the time when humanity was going through a crisis in relation to its higher cognition. In the time of the thirteenth century, around the year 1250, we have the age when people felt most closed off from the spiritual world. Then the most outstanding spirits, who strove for a certain higher knowledge, said: "What our reason, our intellect, what [our knowledge] can find is limited to the world that surrounds us on the outside; we cannot reach a spiritual world with our rational human research and cognitive faculty; it must be given to us through revelation! Knowledge and faith are two separate areas! - There is a good reason why this was said at the time when scholasticism was flourishing; it was said because at that time humanity was most closed off from the spiritual world. Approximately the year 1250 is the time in which people during the Middle Ages had to come to draw the line between what can be believed and what can be recognized.