Lead me from the unreal to the real

 

Rudolf Steiner:  "Religious life must be something direct, it must be something elementary, entirely connected to human nature, which lives out of the elementary, most inward foundation of human nature. All philosophic thinking is a reflection, and is distanced from this direct, elementary experience. If I might express a personal impression, it would be this: When someone philosophizes about the religious life and believes that a philosophical foundation is necessary for religious life, then it always seems to me to be similar to when one wants to turn to the physiology of nutrition in order to attain nourishment oneself. Isn't it true, one can determine the exact foundations of nutritional science but that means nothing for nutrition itself. Nutritional science elucidates nutrition, but nutrition must surely have a sound foundation, it must grow roots in reality; only then can one philosophize about nutrition. So also, the religious life must have roots in reality. It must come to existence out of reality; only when it is there can one philosophize about it. It is certainly not possible at all to substantiate or justify the religious life with some or other philosophic consideration."

Lead me from the unreal to the real.

Lead me from darkness to the light.

Lead me from mortality to immortality.

Source: September 26, 1921. GA 343. Foundation Course, p. 3