On the Bow of a Sinking Ship
…called “Humanity”
From Rudolf Steiner’s last published communication:
In the age of natural science, since about the middle of the nineteenth century, the civilized activities of mankind are gradually sliding downward, not only into the lowest regions of nature, but even beneath nature. Technical science and industry become sub-nature*.
This makes it urgent for man to find in conscious experience a knowledge of the spirit, wherein he will rise as high above nature as in his sub-natural technical activities he sinks beneath her. He will thus create within him the inner strength not to go under.
* “Sub-nature,” the way Steiner meant it, involves first and foremost electricity and all that “runs” on this phenomenon. Our growing dependence on, and our addiction to, electricity, which now lies as the foundation of this “modern world,” is our undoing as Free and Moral Beings. It is that simple.
Source: https://wn.rsarchive.org/Books/GA028/TSoML/GA028_additions.html