84. Free Will and Immortality

Logic becomes the result of previous lives on earth and intermediate experiences. The general human sense of responsibility will have to be increased. Because actions give birth to a future personality. Thinking must gain in strength. Because it is not carried by the organization. Action weighs heavily on the soul, because it is full of promise for the future. One can no longer say, “After me, the deluge!” for the consciousness arises that one is participating in the creation of this deluge. Fear and timidity hinder higher knowledge. Mere natural science numbs. It reduces man to the level of a mere animal, because it does not dare to trace him back to something that lives only in him. And the attitude that flows from this numbs one to responsibility. For it allows man to be uninvolved in the future.