The Invisible Elements of Human Nature and Practical Life

So we have a physical process as a result of a psychological one. The same is true of the feeling of shame. Here again we have a redistribution of blood, a change in circulation under the influence of a spiritual factor. What we see here on a small scale and what we can observe on a larger scale when tears flow from the eyes as a result of a sad event shows that the soul can be the cause of physical processes. Of course, under the influence of our not obvious but secret materialistic way of thinking, there are people today who also assert materialistic views here. I have already quoted here the saying of a certain worldview: One does not cry because one is sad, but one is sad because one cries. This saying actually originated from someone who thought idealistically, but it has been misinterpreted. These are fully developed materialistic ways of thinking. Anyone who has preserved a degree of sound thinking from the materialistic basis of our time will see in such obvious connections between physical facts and spiritual-soul facts something that can gradually lead them to understand that Spiritual Science must say from its point of view: Everything, everything material has a spiritual origin.