12. Spiritual Science as a Life's Work

As if the truly genuine aspects of a fruitful future culture, towards which human beings should be striving, were looking at the representative of spiritual science and demanding that he represent this spiritual science, so it stands before him, this science itself. What fills him with hope, with confidence in life and in the healing power of spiritual science in relation to the humanity of the future, is concentrated in a feeling of something genuine; and he cannot help but develop a belief in this feeling of the genuine nature of human beings, a belief that stems from true knowledge, which in a certain sense also knows: This spiritual science must have an effect, even if it has many opponents; it must endure, it must prevail. And as it appears to the genuine believer, it is the genuine element in the future development of humanity. Not the untrue, the inauthentic, but only the genuine can have an effect, can endure, can prevail!