20. How Does the Soul Find Its True Essence?

GA 69d/1914-05-08/p048 ·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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Spiritual science as a real science, as it has been described here, is a product of the present age. Human souls had to go through their earlier earthly lives; now they are maturing and becoming ever more mature in order to develop the powers that lead to spiritual research. But when one lives this spiritual research, one feels in harmony with what people have always expressed, even before its existence, what the leading spirits of human development have expressed from the deepest intuitions, the most mature part of their souls. Two sayings can be quoted that are in harmony with what has been said here today. The physician and soul researcher Feuchtersleben, to whom we owe the book “Die Diätetik der Seele” (The Dietetics of the Soul), coined a beautiful phrase that is entirely consistent with what spiritual science has to say about finding the soul in relation to its true nature:

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