The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

GA 56/1907-10-10/p018 ·1907-10-10 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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This leads us to questions that point us to two words that people today cannot use often enough: the words knowledge and faith. It is said that one can know something about the things that science deals with, but that one can only believe in other things, which is then a personal matter. Only because those who say this do not understand how to create the conditions for any belief to become knowledge can they speak in this way. Those who are unable to provide mathematical proof that the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees must believe it. Those who are unable to provide the proof that is provided in secret science for human life between death and rebirth will have to believe these things. But they will also find the opportunity to prove this for themselves, as we will see in the course of these lectures.

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