In order for perfect harmony to be born on Earth, the eternal wisdom or the absolute truth about life must be revealed in such a way that it is in harmony with the absolute facts that the beings, through the development of their intelligence and feelings, have come to possess. It can no longer be shown as a dogma, a parable or a beautiful fairy tale without any real roots in daily experience and so merely as a matter of belief. It has to be shown as a reality scientifically rooted in real events.
      The "irreligiousness" of modern generations is thus in reality only a kind of "religiousness" that demands not only eternal wisdom as the absolute solution of existence but also the method of calculating this solution so that they themselves can check the calculation and make the same solution their own knowledge. It is this form of "religiousness" that we witness in what we call modern science. All scientists are thus in the absolute sense seekers after truth.
      Through all kinds of schools and educational centres the above-mentioned form of "religiousness" is spreading among ordinary people. Every human being who has learned to count or who can work out the solution of two plus two is thus an incipient scientist, an incipient worshipper of wisdom, even if it is not usual to view him in this way. And it is a matter of course that the more such a form of "religiousness" develops, the more a religiousness based on blind belief must decline.
      The basis for this new development of religiousness is in turn to be found in the accelerated development in the last century of the individual's faculty to analyse, which we call intelligence. Intelligence is in turn the first sense through which the individual can come to the absolute knowledge or analysis of his experiences.
      As people here on earth to the greatest extent are subject to material or physical experiences, it is these which for the time being constitute the dominating object for the searchlight of intelligence. And the first absolute knowledge mankind thereby comes to possess must therefore to a corresponding degree of necessity be of a materialistic or physical nature. When modern science is expressed as "physical" or "material", this is only a manifestation of the fact that its advocates or originators still do not have very many spiritual experiences towards which they can direct their intelligence. They are therefore to a corresponding degree excluded from acquiring spiritual knowledge, regardless of how great their intelligence may be. Just as physical experiences are needed in order to give physical knowledge, so spiritual experiences are needed to give spiritual knowledge. Modern science is therefore not yet an authority on spiritual and occult matters. But what it is not today, it will become in the future. The culmination of physical knowledge having been passed, the culmination of the hunger for spiritual knowledge will arise.