The Invisible Elements of Human Nature and Practical Life

This mystery of life is cultivated especially through Spiritual Science. However, it does not make it easy for people to approach things. It is not so convenient to approach them. Spiritual Science can only stimulate, only say that this and that is there. Then people must approach themselves and must cooperate. It may be uncomfortable, but it is infinitely healthy. This stimulates the innermost member of the human being; Spiritual Science has a direct effect on the ego. When we hear about planetary evolution, when we are told what the invisible members of human nature are, what goes with human beings from life to life – all this appeals directly to the ego. All these great ideas, all these world-encompassing ideas do not remain dry ideas and abstractions. Warmth and bliss radiate from them, warmth and bliss permeate and surge through the astral body of the human being. Contentment and bliss emanate from what Spiritual Science offers. And what permeates and glows through the human being as warmth, as fire, continues into their life body. Everything that is the forces of the etheric body is permeated by the forces of Spiritual Science itself, and the etheric body in turn transmits these forces to the physical body, transmits them as dexterity, so that, for example, the hand becomes dexterous and practical when the great, sublime ideas of Spiritual Science pour into the physical body.