4. The Spirit, Soul, and Body of Man

Thus, the spiritual researcher prepares himself at the beginning, using the same means by which science otherwise arrives at its final result, to be able to observe spiritually, so that the spiritual appears to him as an experience, just as the physical-sensory world appears to the outer senses. This brings about what I reluctantly call clairvoyant observation of the spiritual world, reluctantly because even today, when one speaks of clairvoyant observation of the outer world, reference is often made to older abnormal states of human soul life, and one deliberately or unintentionally confuses the serious, rigorous method of spiritual science with all kinds of pathological and dilettantish methods through which humanity today often seeks to penetrate the spiritual world. I will speak more about such things in the lecture on “Revelations of the Unconscious.”