The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

If we want to say what secret science is based on, we must first give a very simple answer. We must say that secret science rests on two convictions: first, on the conviction that behind what our senses show us in the outer world, behind what our minds can take in through sensory perceptions and experiences, behind what our eyes can see and our hands can grasp, there is a higher, invisible, supersensible world. This is the one conviction. The other conviction is that human beings are capable of perceiving and seeing this supersensible, invisible world by developing their own powers of cognition and abilities. When we express these two things, we have said what all so-called secret science is based on.