It is crucial that people understand that the changes that are taking place today will not allow them to live as they have done in the past. The egotism that has resulted in vast inequity, monstrous brutality, and exclusive sectarianism will only worsen to its ultimate climax of war and self destruction if individuals everywhere do not turn their attention to the spiritual impulses that flooding the earth today. Spirit does not compel. It seeks those with good will, with open minds and hearts, who are willing to embrace a new (though eternal), more comprehensive understanding of the earth, humanity and the cosmos. It knows no person, no race, no gender, no religion, no church, no political party, no government, no legal system, no corporate structure, nor any of the hallmarks that define our current materialistic times. It does know the essential being of humankind which far transcends modern concepts and definitions. And it does know how to accomplish the practical realization of that essential being. Rudolf Steiner called the practical application of spiritual insight into earthly matters "Spiritual Science".
From Steiner:
"What must be emphasized over and over again is the need there is today for things to be taken with deep seriousness. This goes against the grain. People choose to believe that things will continue in the same way. No, they will not.
If life continues without the stimuli that come from the spiritual world, industry can go on, banks can be in existence and universities where all the sciences are taught, other professions can be developed — but everything will lead to decadence, to barbarism, to the fall of civilization.
Those who are not willing to apply in practical life what can come out of Spiritual Science are working, not for ascent but for decline. And the majority of people today want decline and simply delude themselves into the belief that an ascent can still come out of it."
"What must be emphasized over and over again is the need there is today for things to be taken with deep seriousness. This goes against the grain. People choose to believe that things will continue in the same way. No, they will not.
If life continues without the stimuli that come from the spiritual world, industry can go on, banks can be in existence and universities where all the sciences are taught, other professions can be developed — but everything will lead to decadence, to barbarism, to the fall of civilization.
Those who are not willing to apply in practical life what can come out of Spiritual Science are working, not for ascent but for decline. And the majority of people today want decline and simply delude themselves into the belief that an ascent can still come out of it."
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