20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

GA 69d/1914-05-08/p004 ·1914-05-08 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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What spiritual science has to say about this question is, in the truest sense of the word, a product, a result of human striving in our time and will become more and more so, hopefully, in the future development of humanity. Humanity goes through different stages in its development, through individual peoples and epochs, and just as what is rightly valued today as natural science entered human development at a certain point in time and was not part of it before, so it is with spiritual science as we understand it here. One can say that the conditions that existed three to four millennia ago for the development of natural science are, in the opinion and “recognition” of the spiritual researcher, present for spiritual science in our time.

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