Many present difficulties and much that is chaotic around us in our era, become quite explicable when one knows that the task of our era is to raise that which is instinctive to the plane of consciousness. What is instinctive in us happens to a certain degree by itself, but to achieve a conscious result one must make an inward effort, above all, to begin to think truly with one's whole being. Man tries to avoid this, he does not willingly take a conscious part in the shaping of world conditions. Here is a point over which many are indeed deceived today. Well, today we live in the period of the development of thought.
People are proud of the fact that there is more thinking nowadays than in the past.
This comprehension on which people pride themselves today is mainly instinctive. That which meets man today and which is clearly indicated even in the worldly thought of the present epoch is something which one continuously needs to mention the appearance of the so-called Social Question. Everything which the human being develops out of himself naturally corresponds to certain impulses which are ultimately found in our soul and spirit life.