74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

GA 246/1916-03-03/p060 ·1916-03-03 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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What can be a materialistic worldview today can be a human institution according to the corresponding length of time. For the moment one forgets the spiritual, the physical is at the mercy of Ahriman: He then takes possession of the whole physical. You can only wrest it from him by taking the spiritual into consideration in the way you relate to people. If one forgets the spiritual, then one is working in the spirit of Ahriman: one hands over the earthly world to Ahriman, as it were, with the materialistic worldview. People do not even think about how they are on the way to handing over the earth to the devil. It is terrible how far they have come on this path! Some phenomena can be heartbreaking!

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