12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

Out of this conviction, I have so far avoided, although in the future it will not be possible to avoid when difficult problems arise, to assist these lectures in any way with illustrations or photographs. The modern soul is only too inclined to view anything passively. But what spiritual science brings to light must be grasped inwardly, must be thought through, felt through, and often willed and empathized with. By appealing to what is present in every soul, but often only slumbering there, spiritual science awakens in the soul forces for spiritual life itself which, when activated, represent a high good in life, a good that will be needed more and more by human souls. Only those who are short-sighted could deny that human life is becoming more and more complicated, that our development in earthly existence is progressing in such a way that more and more inner powers of orientation will be necessary in order to cope with life in every direction. Apart from the many other reasons that speak in favor of spiritual science entering contemporary culture, the most important one is that the more we live into the future, the more human souls will need to draw on these stronger forces purely in order to orient themselves externally in life. Life itself will demand these stronger forces from human souls.