2. Human beings as Spiritual and Soul Beings

With this, at the end of today's lecture, I have indicated something of the program for the next lectures. I hope that spiritual science will overcome Du Bois-Reymond's dictum, with which he sought to pull the rug out from under all spiritual research by asserting the principle that only that which comes from the senses can actually be science, and that where supernaturalism begins, science ends. No, our view of the world, as presented in these lectures, is intended to show that in the future it will be possible to have a conviction of humanity based on the fact that wherever real supernaturalism, real penetration into the spiritual world ceases, science must also die out in the face of mere observation of nature. Thus we also see how natural science itself has more and more dead, dying concepts, for the living can only come from the spirit. The spirit is the creator of the living, and when it is recognized, it can only be the creator of real, life-filled, scientific concepts.