If we try to be ‘scientific’ in the ordinary sense of the word — as, unfortunately, many of our members have tried to be — then we are presuming, so to speak, that it is possible to enter into discussion with them. But now take the lectures that have been given here (about reincarnation and karma), or the lectures at Prague, or the single lectures at Stuttgart — can you believe for a single moment that there can be any question of entering into discussion with our opponents on these matters? It goes without saying: we can enter into no discussion with our opponents when we speak of these things. How, for example, should we discuss with any representative of the civilisation of today the statement, for example, that the soul of Muavija appeared again in the soul of Woodrow Wilson?
Source: Rudolf Steiner – GA 236 – Karmic Relationships: Esoteric Studies – Volume II: Lecture II – Dornach, 12th April 1924
Translated by G. Adams, M. Cotterell, C. Davy, & D. S. Osmond
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
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