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Leading A Spiritual Life

of spiritual science, on the other hand, encompasses
the contemplation of the qualitative aspects of nature,
so that, within its scope, it is things of a spiritual nature
which are brought to light, just as the honeybee extracts
honey from flowers.
Flowers are the greatest concern of the honeybee. For
a honeybee, its whole world is a world of flowers. It
never wastes its time on other things. It concentrates
on flowers, takes the nectar from them and returns
to its hive. The same is true of an awakened mind.
For an awakened mind, the whole world is a world
of spirituality. It extracts the spiritual content from
everything. The awakened person thus enhances his
spirituality until he grows to be a spiritual giant.

Spiritual science, in developing the mind, enables one
to analyze matters in an objective manner. In complex
issues, it is an aid to the making of right judgements.
It helps one to view things in such a way that one’s
mental confusion is dispelled and one can think with
total clarity. If heart-based spirituality was no more than
thoughtless ecstasy, mind-based spirituality has emerged
as a fine-tuned form of high thinking.
Spiritual science has evolved in the same way as the
science of the solar system. In the early centuries man
had given credence to the geocentric theory. As a result,
no development in this science was possible. In modern
times, however, man’s thinking altered sufficiently for
the heliocentric theory to be formulated, as a result
of which solar science became a developed discipline.
The same change in thinking took place in the case of
spiritual science. In the pre-scientific period, people

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