The Four Principles

GA 265/the_four_principles/p013 ·1906-06-26 · English HighHigh alignmentThis translation's paragraph count matches the German original — the locus maps cleanly to the same paragraph in DE.
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The brotherhoods have today surrendered the part of the power that lies in the teachings of Theosophy. Why can certain things be communicated today? Before 1879 this would not have been possible; but at that time something was decided that made it possible.[^2] Before 1879, it would have meant that the occult brotherhoods would have fallen apart altogether, if nothing else had happened. They did fall apart for the part that was communicated. They must have something in the background that they are not yet communicating, something new and higher.

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