Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

GA 57/1909-01-14/p035 ·1909-01-14 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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No matter how much the fanatics of external facts may talk about not interspersing reality with images of the supersensible world, But as paradoxical as it may sound, these images bring our spirit back into an activity that is appropriate for it. They bring it back into harmony with the physical organism. Those who cling to the purely abstract mental images of merely materialistic science do nothing for their health with their spiritual nature. Those who create only abstractions in their concepts make their souls barren and empty, and they are always dependent on making the external instrument of the body the bearer of health and the bearer of disease. Those who live in disordered and distorted mental images also do not know how they mysteriously inoculate themselves with the causes of the destruction of their organism. Therefore, Spiritual Science takes the position that through the perspectives it asserts in relation to the supersensible world, to that world which we cannot perceive with our outer senses but must evoke strongly within ourselves, we make our soul so active internally that its activity is in harmony with the spiritual world from which our entire organism has been created. Therefore, our organism is not brought to health by petty means, but Spiritual Science itself is the great remedy for healing.

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