128. Fourth section.
As the second category's area borders on the area of the old world impulse, here we will meet types of human beings who have not yet completely finished with this impulse but still partly believe in dogmas, still partly believe in the renewal of the past, and are inclined to reform the existing State religions and authorized church ministration.
They can very often accept a great part of the new world impulse, although with certain reservations and scepticism.
In certain cases, however, they can still also exhibit a great preference for old traditions and customs and will therefore swing wildly between the old and the new and there are times when they are so sympathetic to new ideas and ideals that they sometimes tend to establish them as new dogmas.
Because of their spiritual home being in the borderland between old and new, resulting in fluctuations in their consciousness, they can sometimes suffer quite a serious mental crisis,
a sort of "religious homesickness".
What one learned as a child - or memories of one's home as a child - can sometimes seem like a golden glory in one's mind.
Just as this glory can make the period of childhood shine in such a strong light that even much richer and more beautiful areas can appear empty and barren, so the same glory can also allow one's childhood learning to appear so brilliant that new ideals and much higher knowledge may seem poor and dismal.
But just as life and evolution demand that offspring must leave the nest when mature enough, so at times these same factors may demand that
the individual has to abandon that childhood learning, those outworn traditions, superstitions and dogmas, in order to allow new ideals and purer forms of existence to enter the consciousness so that a renewed and improved community can arise.
Thus, the fourth section of the second category consists of those who have partly grown out of old religious beliefs - that is, the old world impulse - and to some extent therefore are still searching; so here the new world impulse will not meet very much resistance but, in many cases, will even meet a great deal of sympathetic interest.