20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

Then, at an appropriate moment, something occurs that can now be called — I expressly note that no particular importance is attached to the expression itself, that it is not intended to prove anything — one attains something that can be called a “process of spiritual chemistry.” And as I discuss this process of spiritual chemistry, you will see that modern spiritual science, as it is meant here, seeks the true essence of the soul in a similar — but only similar — way to how natural science attempts to unravel the mysteries of nature. Only because spiritual science enters the spiritual realm must it be different in its methods and preparatory work from natural science.