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

And so it will be a matter of stimulating, inspiring, and encouraging precisely that which is not theoretical in human beings, that which is similar to enthusiasm, that which has the effect of art — art, I say! And so, at the end of such a reflection, one will probably have to utter words similar to those of Goethe that I have just quoted, words that in a certain way summarize what could only be stimulated in a brief reflection today, but also what only wanted to be stimulated, the summary of what I believe must be spoken of today under the influence of the signs of the times. It is a matter of man finding the whole man in order to act appropriately in social and moral life, in order to contribute further to the shaping of the social and moral structure and political life. It is a matter of human beings not only arriving at abstract ideas in this area, not only at a physiological view, but also arriving at real forces, forces of life, imbued with enthusiasm. The time is waiting for them, this sad, this catastrophic, this time of trial! Spiritual science only wants to provide the answer as to what is right and should underlie this enthusiasm, and spiritual science is convinced that when humanity finds its way back to its eternal, immortal nature, to that part of human life from which the impulse of freedom springs, then humanity will also find the right paths to find its way out of the chaos into which it has fallen, in reality, not merely through illusion.