74. The Riddle of Death as a Riddle of Life

In many respects mankind has lost the respect and regard for the occupation with the spiritual world. This will be the great task of the German people in the future: To educate themselves from what the great spirits (and we have seen what great spirits there have been who have been forgotten) have achieved, so that they can once again continue to educate themselves in spreading respect, respect for the spiritual world. Only then will we be able to face a great and significant process. Spiritual powers can no more be lost than physical powers. Man has his etheric body, he has powers in his etheric body that would certainly last for decades in relation to his physical body. Let us assume that he finds sacrificial death, as perhaps a million will soon find it on the German side alone ... Let us assume that he finds sacrificial death at a young age. The powers of his etheric body could have continued to work in his physical body for decades: They are not lost, they remain there. He only weaves into the spiritual world that which has been worked out in his thoughts until his death; the rest remains in the spiritual world. In the spiritual world there will be the unused etheric bodies of thousands upon thousands of people. People will have to know: They hover above in the spiritual world. It will be decided whether there will be souls here on earth who will know how to progress in spiritual knowledge, in spiritual cognition, in human culture, in human cognition, by having consciousness: There hover the unspent etheric bodies. And you only need to surrender to the feelings, as it were, and they will inspire the necessary strength into your words. Oh, it could really be a great help from the spiritual world, this awareness of the unspent etheric bodies that will be there and will work in the souls of people to spiritualize humanity!