Second Lecture

Everything that we recognize in this way from spiritual science must be confirmed in the facts of the outer world when we survey them. And we must survey them if we want to take in spiritual science in the right sense. But we must first take what spiritual science says to our hearts and souls, and then ask the world whether what spiritual science says is really realized and actualized in the world. That is to say, if spiritual science is to be verified in the sense indicated, we must find in the outer culture of the peoples that which lives primarily in the feeling soul; we would have to find in the culture of the peoples of the fifth post-Atlantean epoch a kind of resurrection of what was already present in earlier times and what the aforementioned feeling soul peoples express in themselves. As a repetition, we would therefore have to find what lived in the Egyptian-Babylonian-Chaldean epoch, but reborn in a way that corresponds to our time.