The last 500 years have been a schooling in godlessness

  

Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner, in 1906:  "Everything must in the end undergo a schooling. The last four hundred years were in fact a schooling for humanity — the school of godlessness, in which there was purely human experimentation, a return to chaos if seen from a particular point of view. Everyone is experimenting today, without being aware of the connection with higher worlds — apart from those who have once more sought and found that connection with spiritual realms. Nearly everyone lives entirely for himself today, without perceiving anything of the real and all-penetrating common design. That of course is the cause of the dreadful dissatisfaction everywhere."

Source: January 2, 1906. GA 93