The human ideal: to be led by objective truth itself into the spiritual worlds

Rudolf Steiner:  "The ideal of man must be to fathom and recognize objective truth, to be led through objective truth itself into the spiritual worlds.... But even if no fragment remains of the knowledge that has brought forward — I do desire that one thing shall have survived, namely, this: that here there was inaugurated and sustained a theosophical-occult movement taking its stand solely and entirely upon integrity and truth. Even if in fifty years it is already said: Everything must be corrected; but at least they were out to be true, to let nothing happen except what is true ... even then my ideal would have been attained. That integrity and truth can prevail in an occult movement, whatever storms may rise up against us in the world — I am not so arrogant as to say that this has been achieved, but rather that this is the goal toward which we have striven."

Source: The Rudolf Steiner Archive June 20, 1912