First Lecture
There is a deep secret here. What was the opinion of those who had come less far in terms of the individual powers? In the ancient mystery schools it was known that everything can be found in nature. The wasps have long since invented paper, because their nest is real paper. So the wasp contains the wisdom that man later achieved. There is also wisdom in man, and that is how he becomes master over the forces of nature. But there is more of the divine in the less initiated than in the more initiated. The initiated “man” was the fourth class of initiates.
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