74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

One would really like to see what would become of humanity if only the materialistic worldview were to continue to work. Of course, very clever people today imagine that in centuries ... well, the human world and the animal world will be a bit more developed! But even from geology they could deduce that this is not the case: for the mammal fauna appears within the earth's evolution and tells us of extinct species ... But well, don't they, people don't think of such things! A time will come when there will be a completely different animal world in the world, with which man will only be able to do something if he has spiritually developed within himself that which can be developed through a spiritual worldview. That which exists today as the higher animal world, for example, will be almost completely extinct. There will be peculiar higher animals. Yes, there will then be, for example, a species of animal very close to man, which will spread a kind of light backwards and have an organ in front which will, so to speak, reproduce in sounds what is influenced by the world. But man will only be able to find his way in this animal world when he has developed his spirituality according to the principles of the knowledge of this spirituality. Only then will he be able to find his way in this world; otherwise he will have to walk around on earth as an upright animal, probably with lobes on the back of his head that are all too small. - You see, it's easy to say: Well, we'll leave it to the gods to make sure that it doesn't turn out that way and that the earth reaches its destination! If the gods are clever enough (you could say), then people can become materialists for a long time - the gods will lead the earth to its goal.