12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

And when, within our modern culture, there is less awareness of what it actually means to be completely subject to a dogmatism of facts, to be completely dependent on the specialization in science brought about by this fanaticism for facts, then perhaps one understands what it means that spiritual science leads people to acquire inner elasticity, inner mobility, inner flexibility, and liveliness of judgment, and thereby to become what one might call an inwardly free human being who can stand in life in such a way that he grasps the fundamental source of life itself, because the essence of his soul is connected with the primordial forces of existence. It will become increasingly necessary for humanity to develop inner elasticity, inner gymnastics, so to speak — if I may use the expression: inner “dancing” of the powers of judgment in subtle inner activity. Spiritual science will have to bring this to humanity as a gift of life. A way of thinking that carries the power of truth within itself, which human beings will need in the face of an increasingly complex future, is a gift that spiritual science can give to humanity. For this reason, we will have to accustom ourselves to developing an understanding of what can only be grasped inwardly, because through spiritual science we ally ourselves with the inwardly living truth, which does not allow itself to be pressured from outside to judge, but is enlivened by the living power of truth, just as the organism is inwardly enlivened by the living power of blood. And just as the organism is enlivened by the living power of the blood and, through it, breathes in the right relationship to the outside world, so spiritual science will give human beings the ability to be lived through by the inner living truth as by a spiritual-soul heart that breathes in the surrounding world, where the spiritual must be inhaled in order to make the soul so healthy, capable and strong that it can counteract the inner breath with what makes it a free inner organic force, the force that pulsates in the blood.