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

Therefore, if the spiritual researcher really succeeds — I said the day before yesterday that I will not be deterred by any timidity from drawing attention to things that really emerge from the field of spiritual research with scientific precision, like the laws of natural science in the field of natural science — if the spiritual researcher really succeeds in bring the life of the will and the life of feeling into consciousness, if he intensifies his inner activity so that he can bring not only the life of the senses and imagination to life within himself, but also the life of feeling and will, then the world is complemented by the other side, by the spiritual side; then human beings experience as a reality that we are separated from those souls who have lost their bodies through death only by our sensory and imaginative life. The moment we consciously enter into our feeling and will life, we enter a region where we also stand on common ground with the souls who have passed through the gate of death. The separation between the so-called living human souls and the so-called dead human souls is bridged by spiritual science. It is bridged by spiritual science in a very precise way. Through a very precise way of looking at things, however, the life of the soul must be transformed again. If one really wants to make real perceptions in this realm into which human beings enter — dreams come involuntarily, what is experienced in dreams comes involuntarily — if one wants to bring something into one's consciousness that really comes from the realm where the dead live, then one must use just such arbitrary ideas, but now higher than those of waking daytime consciousness, because these ideas must encompass the life of feeling and will; he must face the objects in the spiritual world with just as arbitrary ideas as one otherwise faces the objects in the sensory world. In ordinary dreams, one cannot distinguish between what compels one to imagine and oneself. This distinction is present when the spiritual researcher approaches the life to which the souls who have passed through death also belong.