Third Lecture

Well, my dear friends, that is a salto mortale that could not be more beautiful! For what is said in the first part of the sentence is correct in itself, but in connection with the idea in the second part of the sentence, it is the most incredible thing one can imagine, because states cannot take a selfless standpoint, because the circumstances are completely different. One only has to realize this. Take, for example, the position of an Austrian statesman after the events that led to the assassination of a Serb in Sarajevo. Can one speak in the sense of Bernhardi's sentence? Not at all! The statesman must act in accordance with the egoism of the state. This is just one example of how things are said today that are completely wrong. The humanistic attitude will intervene in the most eminent sense to clarify matters, if only enough people are there for it. These are not trivialities, they are “great things.” For it is from this that everything that has led to the terrible outbreak of war today is composed. I say this because I really believe I know it. I say this because I can truly say it – insofar as such a thing can be said in the sense of an occultist – because I have suffered enough under the circumstances of the last few weeks, and am still suffering enough, and have gone through enough shocking events, starting with the Sarajevo assassination and continuing with many others. Never have I myself seen anything like it, or heard occultists describe anything as surprising as what followed the assassination in Sarajevo. A soul was lifted up into the spiritual world in such a way that it behaves quite differently from any other soul, forming something like a cosmic soul, a cosmic center of power around which everything that lived in fear was grouped. Now everything that was there in terms of fear strove toward this soul. And now, in the spiritual world, everything has the opposite effect: in the physical world, fear held back the war, but in the spiritual world it was an element that promoted war, bringing it about with rapid steps.