XXX. Introduction to Theosophy V

GA 111/1909-03-29/p010 ·1909-03-29 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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In this way, the student has become ready for the following sensation. The master tells him: You must fill your soul with all the pain of the world, every day and with increasing intensity. Then the disciple feels a stabbing pain for a while, because this feeling has become interwoven with his astral body. Then he has a vision of Christ being scourged; as an external symptom, he feels as if he himself were being scourged.

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