10. The Supernatural Human Being III

It is not a coincidence that the two significant mysteries of human soul life are being dealt with in this lecture; rather, I hope to show that the comprehensive question of human free will and the question of the immortality of the soul are closely related from a spiritual scientific point of view and are best considered together. However, it will be particularly noticeable in this consideration that a spiritual scientific examination must take a slightly different path than other scientific considerations, for the simple reason that other scientific considerations — especially as they are commonly practiced today — can usually point directly to the results that are available. A spiritual scientific approach, especially of the kind that is to be pursued today, needs to point out more precisely how the researcher arrives at his results; and in this reference to the research path, it will be necessary to seek essentially what can be regarded as a kind of evidence, a kind of proof of the matter.