12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

Those who represent spiritual science today stand by it, if it is to flow truly from their own convictions, in a different way than one stands by another spiritual current. But one does not have the right attitude toward it simply by being subjectively enthusiastic about the results of this spiritual science and by feeling the urge to carry these results before one's fellow human beings. Today, when it is not one of life's pleasures to represent spiritual science, some people might still hold back on this or that, if only the goals of spiritual science could be achieved in the same way as the goals of other sciences. But one comes to speak openly about the insights of spiritual science when one recognizes how a culture that has taken on an increasingly materialistic character, even where one does not want to be materialistic, penetrates souls and minds and makes them more and more passive, and when one further recognizes, with reference to where human beings are learning more and more to orient themselves in life and to place themselves in life, how spiritual science is a necessity for continuing life. And when one recognizes how those forces that naturally and securely place human beings in life must die out, then what spiritual science knowledge is is forced onto one's lips, demanded of one; and then one wants to have more than what human language, which is in some respects unruly, can offer, in order to show humanity how necessary for the further progress of humanity is the treasure of life that only spiritual science can give in our time.