Now, the last time I spoke about a first scenario and read a piece from a lecture by Rudolf Steiner, in which he emphasized that when people follow the outer events purely outwardly and also combine them outwardly with the intellect, there will be no end to the chaos and the wars in the world. And that it is necessary that humanity, we, come so far that we develop a skill not only to remain standing at that which the senses and the intellect have to offer us, but that we develop a capacity to become aware of the spiritual therein. Well, that is of course something – I assume that most people who watch these videos, listen, have already accepted the spiritual aspect, that there exists not a belief, but a knowledge that you live in a world and that as a human being you are a human being who is not as the senses and the intellect alone show, but that there is a spiritual reality that reveals itself in it.

I assume that most people who watch these videos are indeed convinced of that, but a very large part of humanity is of course not convinced of that at all and also mocks it, or becomes, and that is, I think, the most important thing, afraid of it. Because it is of course so that the spiritual is something invisible and it is more or less also rightly associated with dying. The spirit, it is of course also associated with all kinds of unpleasant spirits, with ghostly apparitions, with specters so to speak, with spiritualism, all expressions of a spiritual existence that you can be afraid of. And that is of course absolutely not what this is about, when Rudolf Steiner speaks of the spirit. These things are rather materializations of spiritual existence and in fact have nothing to do with the spirit.

The spirit is the spiritual order that is active in all phenomena. And when you meet a person, then of course you have by nature the tendency to see how he or she looks, to listen to the voice, to listen to the emotions that you yourself also have. Up to that point goes perception, and yes, that you then would stand still at that there is a spiritual individuality active in it that has gone through many incarnations and now at this point stands opposite you? Yes, that you can perhaps still think, that is then usually afterwards that you think that, but that you also really become aware of this is of course still something else. And that of course does affect us, also that the great world actually wants nothing to do with the spirit.

And yes, then you can say: there fear plays the leading role, that is so too, but that does not take away that we then do sit in a situation in which fear rules. Because people do not want to think that there is an invisible ruler, a direction, an order active, that expresses itself in existence on earth, and in which man either joins, but against which he can also turn. And he can in that order, from the freedom that we have, indeed also try to bring chaos into it. Furthermore, it is of course so that public opinion is tuned in such a way that when you search with thinking for deeper processes in that which you see with eyes and ears and think with the intellect, that you are then soon dismissed as a conspiracy thinker.

And for the moment that is still somewhat mocking; then you are a pitiful figure, but there is of course indeed a tendency in it to gradually transform that into something criminal. That, when you as a human being do not stand still only at sense and intellect, and then especially preferably as that is manipulated – then I am again already a conspiracy thinker – if you do not remain standing there and you go a bit further, and you search for processes that are present in the sensory as understood by the intellect as driving, as propelling force, then you gradually, and hopefully we will not in the future, but it does look like it is going in that direction, you are considered a dangerous person.

You may therefore actually not search for deeper processes that are not simply so visible, and what is visible is of course seized upon by the media to manipulate, so that we as citizens, as newspaper readers, as people who yes, are actually victims of those media, that we gradually form a certain kind of judgment in ourselves. And of course a great deal of effort is made from other sides to stand against that, but whether that then also really is the penetration into spiritual existence, that you must always ask yourself too. So it is not so simple. You can of course say: yes, we must therefore learn to accept the spiritual reality in earthly existence and learn to become aware of it. Then you have said that, you have read it, you know it, that is then, as I said, the first scenario.

But what use is such a scenario if you do not subsequently also add willpower to it? And then I do not mean willpower in the sense that you go into the street to proclaim it, but I mean willpower, that you also really try to realize it, otherwise of course you have nothing in all those fine words. And I know of course at the same time that it is really not easy to realize that, but you can indeed in all perceptions that for example come toward you from the media, develop an extra sense to see something in it, to become aware of something in it that goes further than what you so easily take from it and that also goes further than what you get to hear from all news media.

I noticed that very strongly in the time of the corona crisis, so I call it, because that is of course what it was, at any rate. That when you follow all information closely, that you then from step to step actually lose the thread. There is no thread between the one and the other step. You hear this, and a consequence would be a number of possibilities. Then the next step comes and it does not fit into that number of possibilities; it is something totally different, it has no ground and you then want to know: how does this suddenly come, where does this come from? Impossible to trace. And when you have those perceptions, then a certain watchfulness is born. This happened now also lately on the world stage.

We have in America an interesting president who seems really to want certain things, but who of course nevertheless comes to deal with other “wills,” that want something different than he. And so must notice that it does not just go like that. When you then, for example, think of that legendary meeting of Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office in the spring, February it was I believe, then there was actually the big point about which people fell out, that was Zelensky’s more or less demand to get security guarantees. That was actually not on the agenda; that was very clear. I also said that then in a video: he should not have started about that. That was actually what caused it to go completely wrong.

Now, let me say, subsequently there comes a very long time of back and forth talking, and calling, and bickering from all sides about ceasefire. It is clear that that is not wanted from Russia, those security guarantees neither. So there is no progress in it. At a certain moment Trump then says: then I must nevertheless impose sanctions. But at the moment that the deadline is passed and that he would therefore impose those sanctions, suddenly there comes the message that there will be a top meeting in Alaska between Trump and Putin. Yes, if that does not surprise you, then I no longer know what would surprise you. And of course there are many theories about it comes from this and it comes from that and it is this and it is that.

But I want to leave that aside; I want to let the wondrous spectacle work on me, that something that was not at all on the agenda suddenly happens. Then you think: well, all right, it will probably be a more or less artificial whole, because Trump does want, but Putin seems not to want. But he comes nevertheless. Gaining time? You can think of all sorts of things, but the remarkable thing is that that summit is ended and that subsequently only the security guarantees are spoken of. No longer about ceasefire, that is suddenly no more, while during the summit or shortly before it began Trump still said to a reporter: Yes, I hope that that will come, that ceasefire. And if not, then I think, I will not like that.

But subsequently it does not come and it also no longer becomes a subject of conversation, but it becomes the security guarantees that become the subject of conversation. That should indeed surprise you. And then the fact that it goes like that, makes that you understand nothing of it anymore. And that you understand nothing of it anymore points to the fact that a process is underway that we do not get to hear, of which we have no idea. Then the European leaders appear, for they must be there. And of course Zelensky must also be there. So they all go together to America, to the president. And now I come to the point I actually want to say: There was a photo at a certain moment where you see that Zelensky and Trump walk in front and the European leaders in a tail, as it were, behind them.

Such a strange image. Of course, it is simply so, it went that way, you can say. But for me it looked like the Pied Piper of Hamelin. There is someone who lures a whole set of beings behind him with flute playing. And yes, first they are the rats. Then he is not thanked, that Pied Piper. Then he is angry, and then he comes back. And then it is the children that are lured along. Do with it what you will. I do not fully grasp it either, but that is how it looks. So there is something that we do not get to hear, that plays itself out behind the phenomena that we see. And as that is the case, so you must also imagine that behind that there is still a spiritual reality that in fact makes the service.

We can create confusion, and we can be of service to the spirit, and we can stick a spoke in the wheel. But ultimately we do not of course have the say. And those processes that lie behind the reality that you see, and even still behind that which you suspect behind it, although you cannot understand it, there we must learn to direct our consciousness. That plays itself of course partly still in the area of the conspiracies. You can imagine, you can write a scenario, but without willpower that scenario of course never comes. So you can imagine, if you conceive a scenario that that would be good and that you should act thus and so, then you must indeed make sure that you are then also ready for it and that you also organize it so that it also goes as that scenario prescribes.

That applies of course to the first scenario, namely that you try to grasp the spiritual in the world processes, and you see well, I cannot at all describe that exactly, and yet it is so that in that which I have now described you indeed feel the working of certain thought processes that are active in it, through which it is done as it is done. And that is not a conspiracy, that can for example very well be that it is something personal. The newspapers are full of it: Trump wants the Nobel Peace Prize and therefore he does all that. Well, if he succeeds, it is nice that he has such an impulse, even if he is ever so selfish. You can think you see all kinds of spiritual impulses, of soul impulses, but it is of course in fact, it has above all to do with the untraceability of the events. That things are suddenly so different than they have always been, that you feel in it what is going on, even if you cannot express it precisely with words. And so you can imagine that in the world there are certain groups that find something necessary, that want something, and that in order to push that through write certain scenarios, but that can then also fulfill with willpower, so that it also happens what they, or at least it is tried that it happens. Well, what I actually only want to say, and I have spent many words on it, is that whichever scenario you also write, that of course has absolutely no sense if you do not want to realize it.

And that first scenario, namely that all following scenarios actually have no sense when you do not take that first scenario seriously, namely: see in the world events more than what the senses and the intellect offer you, and at least begin with being aware that that is so. That you then do not yet grasp it or that you do not become aware of it, that is a next step. That you also cannot force. But the awareness that in that which we are served up of sensory impressions and of intellectual considerations, that that is not it, that you must look further and at least further suspect. That is in fact the first scenario and that you can practice. You can with great attentiveness follow the events, whereby you can have a trust that also if you do not read so much newspaper or watch videos or whatever, that you nevertheless get precisely before your eyes that which you need. When you follow that attentively, then it is of importance that you become aware of the continuity in it. And that you almost never become aware of; it is almost always fragmentary what you are served. And in that, in that lack of continuity, there lies the gate to becoming aware of the spiritual working in the events. That is what I wanted to express today.