12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

Spiritual science will have a remarkable effect on the moral sphere, on the sphere of helping people and being effective in human affairs. It will not work like external means that are intended to deter people from this or that. It will work differently, quietly in the soul, but in the soul of each individual, so that they find the right ways to express love. Spiritual science will work like conscience, just as the inner voice of conscience may not punish externally, but is all the more certain a guide for the soul. Those who familiarize themselves with the concepts of spiritual science will experience that where they do wrong in the true sense of the word, spiritual science has placed a power within them that acts like a reinforcement of conscience, like a corrective, pointing the way in life. And so spiritual science will not work for the best in the moral sphere through programs, through external associations, through activities such as are otherwise customary when one wants to spread this or that; but it will work, let us say, by incorporating itself into culture, like the moral conscience that is advancing through humanity. In the elevation of moral conscientiousness that will become part of every soul that is imbued with spiritual science, the whole of modern culture will be given a gift of life if spiritual science finds understanding.