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| Great moral demands begin to be put upon the terrestrial scientific researcher. Circumstances under which the conclusions of the immoral researcher become false and thereby unscientific | 228. As terrestrial mankind's advanced scientific researcher finds himself so much on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual world that the objects of his investigation are such that he can only partly express them in a purely physical way, indeed in many cases only with the help of instruments of observation, and therefore in areas where he is insensitive he has to compensate for the deficiency by assumption, this leads to the beginning of a confrontation for him with great moral demands on the development of his consciousness. He must possess a consciousness in which no violent frustration or mental disturbance takes place. He must be completely cleansed from all inferior desires, tendencies and vices, for otherwise his faculty of concentration will be adversely interfered with and thereby ruin the chance of a perfect result in his investigations. And as he is here in advance of the ordinary masses in knowledge and research, his results in many cases cannot be checked by his fellow men. It is required of the researcher first and foremost that he has so strong a love of Truth that in no case will he allow himself for his own prestige to be led into distorting his results with the help of small or large inaccuracies and so lead people astray. It will be of no consequence how much a person has studied and how many examinations he has passed in that department of investigation and science which terrestrial mankind is now entering; the researcher will not in any way be able to reach prominence if he has not a "quiet mind", that is to say, a consciousness in which there is found no tendencies whatsoever with regard to pursuit of fame, power or riches, a consciousness in which all powers are united in a concentration on one thing only - Truth. For, to the same degree as the researcher deviates from having these qualifications, so will the manifestation of honesty be an impossibility and his results must be correspondingly not the Truth but falsehood, not knowledge but ignorance. |
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