The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

This is a radical direction that seeks to break completely with all views of the supernatural. This view has weighty arguments in its favor, which cannot be denied. Who would want to misjudge the immeasurable progress made in the natural sciences over the last few centuries, and especially in the last century? Who would not admire these research results, which on the one hand reach up to the phenomena of the starry sky, and on the other hand delve down into the secrets of the smallest living creatures, into the secrets of matter and sensory existence? Who would not stand in awe even before the bold speculations that have emerged in recent times from such beautiful discoveries as that of radium by individual researchers? And who would not see that there is something dazzling when those who stand on the ground of such radical positivism or materialism — the name is not important here — say: The researcher is still far from solving all the mysteries of existence through sensory research; but we must be patient, for the time will come when what is still covered by a thick veil today will be clarified by natural science itself; the time will come when archaeologists will unravel the past world lying in the layers of the earth that are still covered today, nature in its creation, when purely sensory research will shed light on the past. The time will also come — as those who stand on the ground of research will rightly say — when certain substances will be mixed with inanimate substances in the laboratory, so that it will be possible to produce living substance in the laboratory itself. Perhaps this still seems like a reckless idea today, but development is moving in this direction, and then you, secret scientist, can pack up, because you will no longer have the right to speak of supernatural things once we have shown that even life can be produced through a combination of substances and forces.