Thirteenth Lecture

We drew attention to such souls last time. I cited significant works of literature from which we can see such a struggle of the soul within the impulses of the times. But those souls who wanted to numb themselves as if with a spiritual-soul narcotic immerse themselves in a certain worldview into which they were born or raised. There are certainly a large number of souls in our time who, through their karma and what is connected with it, lean more toward materialism. They adopt what materialism has produced as a worldview. Others are more spiritually oriented souls; they adopt what spiritualism or idealism has brought into the world, and they numb themselves with what they adopt, without developing the will to enter into that struggle in which the soul finds itself when it is to truly enter the spiritual worlds.