I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

All of nature begins to whisper its secrets to us through its sounds. Sounds that were previously incomprehensible to our soul now become the meaningful language of nature.

Acquisition of knowledge is not the end, but the means to the end; the end consists in the attainment, thanks to this knowledge of the higher worlds, of greater and truer self-confidence, a higher degree of courage, and a magnanimity and perseverance such as cannot, as a rule, be acquired in the lower world.

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer.

That which secures life from exhaustion lies in the unseen world, deep at the roots of things.

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.