The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

Anyone who objects that it is sinful to want to explore the subjects of the supersensible world, that they are something that can never come from human nature, that human beings must have faith in a higher revelation and that it is presumptuous to want to fathom them, can be countered by saying that it is a sin to leave what is present in the world in its embryonic form untouched. For the divine foundation of the world has placed these seeds in the world so that they may sprout and bear blossoms and fruit. To those who wish to limit human cognitive power by saying that humans should not be so presumptuous, it can be replied that it would be a sin to allow cognitive power to lie fallow. We should not let it lie fallow, but develop it; that is why we have it. Anyone who can understand what a sin against human nature it is to leave these powers lying fallow, to shut oneself off from the supersensible world, will soon abandon this objection as completely impossible. This is how secret science, with its attitude, places itself in the currents of the times.