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…And because people are not able to have ideas or concepts about the true nature of things, they are sliding more and more deeply into chaos.

...THERE WILL BE VAST NUMBERS OF PEOPLE IN FUTURE…[WHOSE] CONCEPTS, IDEAS AND ACTIONS WILL BE BASED ON THE OUTSIDE WORLD AROUND THEM AND ON THE FACT THAT THEIR BODIES ARE BEING FILLED WITH THE AHRIMANIC [DEMONIC] SPIRIT WHICH WANTS THEM TO FORM SUCH IDEAS.

We should not fool ourselves, for we are faced with a quite specific movement. At the Council of Constantinople it was decreed that the spirit did not exist; it was dogmatically stated that the human being consisted only of body and soul, and it was heresy to speak of a human spirit. IN THE SAME WAY ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO DECREE THE SOUL, THE INNER LIFE, AS NONEXISTENT.

The time will come — and it may not be far off — when quite different tendencies will come up at a congress like the one held in 1912 [In 1912 a science called eugenetics was established in London] and people will say: It is pathological for people to even think in terms of spirit and soul. ‘Sound’ people will speak of nothing but the body. IT WILL BE CONSIDERED A SIGN OF ILLNESS FOR ANYONE TO ARRIVE AT THE IDEA OF ANY SUCH THING AS A SPIRIT OR A SOUL. PEOPLE WHO THINK LIKE THAT WILL BE CONSIDERED TO BE SICK AND — YOU CAN BE QUITE SURE OF IT — A MEDICINE WILL BE FOUND FOR THIS.

At Constantinople, the spirit was made non-existent. THE SOUL WILL BE MADE NON-EXISTENT WITH THE AID OF A DRUG. Taking a ‘sound point of view’, PEOPLE WILL INVENT A V@CKS TO INFLUENCE THE ORGANISM AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE, PREFERABLY AS SOON AS IT IS BORN, SO THAT THIS HUMAN BODY NEVER EVEN GETS THE IDEA THAT THERE IS A SOUL AND A SPIRIT.

The two philosophies of life will be in complete opposition. One movement will need to reflect how concepts and ideas may be developed to meet the reality of soul and spirit. THE OTHERS, THE HEIRS OF MODERN MATERIALISM, WILL LOOK FOR THE V@CKS TO MAKE THE BODY ‘HEALTHY’, THAT IS, MAKES ITS CONSTITUTION SUCH THAT THIS BODY NO LONGER TALKS OF SUCH RUBBISH AS SOUL AND SPIRIT, but takes a ‘sound’ view of the forces which live in engines and in chemistry and let planets and suns arise from nebulae in the cosmos. MATERIALISTIC PHYSICIANS WILL BE ASKED TO DRIVE THE SOULS OUT OF HUMANITY.”

- Rudolf Steiner, "Fall of the Spirits of Darkness - Changes in Humanity's Spiritual Make-up", Dornach 7 October 1017

[Translated from Steiner's original lecture in German: "Die spirituellen Hintergründe der äußeren Welt: Der Sturz der Geister der Finsternis – Vorträge in Dornach, 1917, Band 177"]

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