Popular Consciousness says: When conscience speaks, it is God speaking in the soul. The highest spiritual Consciousness says that when conscience speaks, it is truly the Cosmic Spirit speaking.

And spiritual science brings out the connection between conscience and the greatest event in the evolution of mankind, the Christ-Event.

Hence it is not surprising that conscience has thereby been ennobled and raised to a higher sphere.

When we hear that something has been done for reasons of conscience, we feel that conscience is regarded as one of the most important possessions of mankind.

Thus we can see how natural and right it is for the human heart to speak of conscience as ‘God in man’.

… conscience is the highest voice in our inward life. On this account, also, we are aware that our dignity as Human beings is inseparable from conscience.

We are Human beings because we have an ego-consciousness; and the conscience we have at our side is also at the side of our Ego.

Thus we look on conscience as a most sacred individual possession, inviolable by the external World, whose voice enables us to determine our direction and our goal.

When conscience speaks, no other voice may intrude.

So it is that on one side conscience ensures our connection with the primordial power of the World and on the other guarantees the fact that in our inmost self we have something like a drop flowing from the Godhead.

And man can know: When conscience speaks in him, it is a God speaking. – Rudolf Steiner

Metamorphoses of the Soul 2: Lecture 8: Human Conscience – Berlin, 5th May 1910

Science shows us that the apparently solid World we live on is actually made up of many small molecules, that like the planets in a galaxy are separated from each other by vast distances of empty space.

These tiny molecules are further composed of still smaller atoms that are made of even smaller electrons and protons moving through expanses of space in charged energy fields.

All observable matter is no more than insubstantial fields of energy moving in a great void. The great ‘Shunya’, or great emptiness, that pervades and surrounds everything.

All objects and all living things have no substance except as bundles of energy. All our possessions and all observable objects will decay and die.

All our transitory possessions, objects, passions, ideals and even our mortal bodies are destined to be deserted by this transitory spirit as it moves, undeclared, towards an unimagined destination.

For every individual, our seemingly momentous passions, thoughts, traditions, pleasures and pain are mere expressions of a solitary transitory spirit on an often tiresome and sometimes joyous journey through an allotted span of life.

A spirit that comes to the World alone and leaves it alone but is never alone as long as it regards itself as a part of some greater subject.

If people can learn how to find the glory of this spirit within themselves, they will be freed from the bondage of sacrifices, penances and rituals. It will be the triumph of inner spirituality and the end of raucous religiosity.