10. Between Death and Rebirth of the Human Being

With these and many other words that I could add to characterize the matter, I would like to draw attention to the soul's mood of holy awe, of boundless reverence for truth and truthfulness and knowledge, which must be inherent in spiritual scientific research. It becomes increasingly clear how the soul must rise above itself, how it must be less and less concerned with making final judgments based on its ordinary daily state of mind, and how it must devote more and more care to preparing the forces necessary to reach a standpoint that is worthy of the truth. In short, the seeker of truth who acts in the spiritual-scientific sense must devote more and more care to preparing the soul, to developing abilities for the truth, and must increasingly refrain from approaching this truth with the ordinary soul forces, with ordinary criticism. With these introductory words, I wanted only to indicate the attitude in which spiritual science itself stands toward such things as are now to be spoken of. Now I will proceed without further ado to the subject, which I believe has been sufficiently prepared for by the lectures of this winter.