To have the will to do what is right according to earthly conceptions or to have the will to do what is good
rise up in spiritual knowledge he will be lost without fail. Old age forms no obstacle, but is an incentive,
want to hear, because it is more comfortable for them not to. In the end, however, their laziness will
Today itno longer suffices for someone simply to have intended to do what is right! At hisfirst
concentration of all the senses, thus spiritualvitality andfull alertness! Onlythen is it possible to
in their hearts, it will hardly be possible any longer to awaken them in the beyond, since they will not be
their own will. No one will force them to move on, but neither will they be able to leave this World of
any halfway acceptable pretext. They belong to the chaff which will not be strengthened by the coming
Even if men have buried within themselves all but one small grain of Truth which they brought with
The time of spiritual vagrancy and of laziness and smug expectation has passed. With enormous
They would always demand more time for consideration from their Creator, without ever beginning
penetrate deeply into my words and truly grasp them.
an obstacle! It is a call from Eternity which strikes them from out of the Word, but which they do not
terribleness and severity the sleepers and sluggards will be struck so that even the deafest one will
destroy them, unless they wish to come alive in time. The question, however, reveals this love of laziness
awaken.
because in old age his hour of passing over comes visibly closer! It is simply lethargy and laziness which
very clearly. It is the way of so many people who constantly wish to deceive themselves on the basis of
However, from the very beginning the study of my lectures requires strict self-exertion, a forceful
perish.
And that is how it is intended! I reject all spiritual sluggards.
World, and they will conduct themselves no differently there than they did here. How could old age form
to expend much time on this. They are forever intending but never fulfilling their intentions themselves.
are often very different things! What is right according to earthly conception is not always what is good!
them from their home in the Spiritual Sphere, the Word must strike them like a summons, provided they
storms of purification, but which will be blown away as being useless for the seriousness of real life.
an ascent, which would require them to bestir themselves spiritually. For this reason it serves no purpose
incarnation he could do that. Now more is asked of him! If he does not forcefully bestir himself finally to
They will naturally take their “refusal to listen” over with them from this earth into the Ethereal
I have often named as the worst enemy with which such procrastinators burden themselves and thereby
take the trouble to read it uninfluenced and in all earnestness. If they then perceive nothing that resonates
Matter in time to escape from the disintegration, which is eternal damnation.
able to receive anything else there either. They come to a standstill where they place themselves through
They, too, are therefore lost.