74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

At this time death enters life in such a thousand ways ... And just as it corresponds to our spiritual-scientific endeavor to always look at those sides of life which are only expressed here in the physical world, but which are the spiritual sides which man experiences in the normal course of his existence only through death, so it must be particularly appropriate in our time to look at this world, which lies behind the world of the senses, in so far as out of it that which men call death dissolves in its mysteriousness and itself becomes a part of life. We have certainly already been able to gain the attitude and conviction from the many considerations we have made that the kind of contemplation of death that we make is not an idle contemplation that brings man far from life, but that a full, pure view of life emerges precisely from the contemplation of the riddle of death. Therefore, when we contemplate death, we do not mean that we turn away from life within the physical body, which is assigned to us as a divine-spiritual task, but on the contrary, we mean: By contemplating eternal powers with the death of man, we are precisely bringing higher courage, higher power into that life which is allotted to us within the physical world.