Our epoch is a time of tragic collision between matter and spirit and of the downfall of the purely material world view.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We must understand the motives and forces of our time and analyze their structure from three points of view: the material, the functional, and the spiritual. We must make clear in what respects our epoch differs from others and in what respects it is similar.
The obscurest epoch is today.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.
The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.
One aspect of this is the way we have come during recent centuries to appreciate that the world and indeed the very universe in which we live have evolved over immense periods of time.
This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
We live in an epoch of denudation.
In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.