Today certain definite ideas are developing out of the Egyptian ideas. What is called Darwinism today did not arise because of external reasons. We are the same souls who, in Egypt, received the pictures of the animal forms of man's forebears. The old views have awakened again, but man has descended more deeply into the material world.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.

Receive the children in reverence, educate them in love, and send them forth in freedom.

Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality and emptiness are experienced as torment, as disharmony.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.

When the spirit most closely approaches the physical earth, then we have the perception of fragrance.