Twelfth Lecture

The souls that have learned nothing from spiritual science today will necessarily die and return in a new life. They will have learned nothing from spiritual science and will not know what to do with the impressions that will arise from within them as a result of their repeated earthly lives, or rather, they may be driven to despair by what wells up from within them. For only through thoughts can we grasp what arises as an inner impression in the soul; and the thoughts that are necessary to understand what now naturally arises are the thoughts of spiritual science. For these thoughts of spiritual science are meant to make the whole process of the I understandable to us and to show us how this I is contained in the human being. Only when one has the power of these thoughts will one understand the impression that comes of its own accord and of which the memory will, in a sense, be present.