6. Spiritual Scientific Findings on the Ideas of Freedom and Social-moral Life

However, one cannot arrive at the perception of these things by consulting ordinary consciousness alone. As I said, I spoke about this the day before yesterday. You can find more details in my books, such as “Occult Science” and “How to Know Higher Worlds,” or summarized in my book “The Riddle of Man,” and again in my latest book, which will be published in the next few days: “The Riddle of the Soul.” But I would like to emphasize one thing that may be essential for our consideration today: the kind of thinking that is fully justified for scientific ideas must become quite different if human beings want to fully comprehend what I have said and will say. It cannot be grasped with a way of thinking that is rightly applied when dealing with ordinary everyday life. That is not sufficient, for example, in the areas where the impulses of social, moral, legal, and ethical life lie. There, one needs concepts that are related to reality in a much more intense way than scientific concepts. Scientific concepts are characterized precisely by the fact that the reality, the essence, is outside them, that in a certain sense they do not need to delve into the object, to delve into objectivity itself. One cannot penetrate the humanities with these concepts. In order to penetrate the humanities, it is necessary for the concepts to grow together with life, to immerse themselves in life, so that they have such an experience within themselves, feel such an experience vibrating within themselves, as is happening within the things themselves.