XLV. Occult Research on the Gospels

Since the Middle Ages, scholasticism has taught thinking that is free from all sensual experience, but also thinking that is unselfish, devoted, and faithful to an existing word, and not to assert selfish criticism and the selfish mind. This is something that the Christian thinker has accepted for centuries, a good training, a school of devoted thinking. Those who today, without knowing it, speak disparagingly and contemptuously of scholasticism do not understand this. Those who know scholasticism know what has been achieved here in terms of selfless thinking, where the person does not say, “I, I have found this, I am called to find a conviction here at all costs,” but where he says, “What am I, who is it and what is it when I think that the teaching was given by the spirit?” There, all selfish intellect was sacrificed for the knowledge of a teaching that selflessly surrendered to the truth. The realization that our race is ancient, that people have always thought, and that we have not been waited for, nor for what we will bring forth, must lead us to this.