8. What is Mortal in Man?

It has often been emphasized that spiritual science seeks to engage with the spiritual cultural process of our time, and it seeks to do so on the basis of – it may well be said – a complete transformation, a complete renewal of people's habitual ways of thinking and imagining. Precisely for this reason, because spiritual science must appeal to something that is unknown in the broadest circles today, really unknown, even in those circles that usually oppose it, that is why it is so difficult to make this spiritual science of the time formation really somewhat understandable.