Preface

These statements apply of course only to that part of our actions whose laws we penetrate ideally in complete knowledge. As long as these laws are merely a motivation of nature, or motives that are conceptually still unclear, a spiritually higher person can certainly recognize to what extent the laws governing our actions are founded within our individuality; but we ourselves experience them as working upon us from outside, compelling us. Every time we succeed in penetrating such a motive, clearly knowing, we make a conquest in the realm of inner freedom.