20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

Spiritual researchers today know that, just as the firmament was once a real boundary of the world for people who trusted only their senses, not because it was there, but because their cognitive abilities placed it there, so too is the confinement between birth or conception and death a temporal firmament that humans create for themselves. And spiritual research today must step before this temporal firmament of birth or conception and death, just as Giordano Bruno stepped before the spatial firmament, and say: Behind birth and death lies the spiritual world, life poured out in time, embedded in infinite repetitions of earthly life, forwards and backwards, like the infinite worlds to which Giordano Bruno once pointed. And just as people have become accustomed to no longer seeing the spatial firmament as a boundary, so will people become accustomed to seeing the drawing into the body and the going out of the body as a temporal firmament, beyond which lies the spiritual world in which we live with forces revealed to us by spiritual science.