Thirteenth Lecture

These are serious considerations, tremendously serious considerations. There would be a good way to turn the dreams of the materialists into reality, and that way would be for those people to win the battle of worldviews who say: Spiritual science dreams that in the future humanity will see etheric figures, first Christ in etheric form and then other etheric figures; that is what spiritual science dreams! But those who say this are fools, and we lock them up in the madhouse. — These are clever people who consider such things to be delusions. If this worldview were to prevail, then what I have described would come to pass. But this worldview must not prevail; that must be our unshakeable conviction. We must know that if our etheric bodies are to be strong enough to correct the faults of our physical bodies, this strength must come from people learning to take seriously and truthfully what comes to them from the etheric world. Then this will have an increasingly healing effect on the future. To this end, we must above all take up spiritual science so that we are prepared when the time comes to see the etheric form of Christ, so that we know how to take this seriously.