The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

Now, perhaps those who consider themselves very clever will raise many objections to what has been said today. They may say: Just look at your followers! They are not people who are at the height of today's science! Only when you have people who are at the height of today's science will we believe in a future, in a mission of secret science. Those who speak this way do not know the secret and intimate paths that the spirit of humanity travels. Those who stand firmly on the ground that we have characterized as the ground of secret science, those who are aware that truth must be found in the soul and that approval is irrelevant, profess to the fullest extent a statement made by a great friend and researcher of truth. One such seeker of truth was Leonardo da Vinci, who was as great a researcher as he was a painter and artist, and who was familiar with the mysterious currents and laws that flow through the world. No thinking person will believe that the true secret scientific attitude did not reign in his heart. At one point, he professes his belief in the truth he found alone, which has found its mission in the world. It contains the confession: “The lie is so contemptible that when it spoke of great things from God, it robbed His divinity of its grace, and the truth is so excellent that when it praised very small things, they became noble.” — If we make such a principle the innermost motivation of our spiritual life, then we will understand how those who are versed in secret science think about the mission of secret science in our age.