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Time and again, one hears that this or that personality spoke, wrote, or preached “so theosophically,” or that this or that view is so deeply imbued with theosophy. This is just allowing oneself to be misled, to be pulled out of one's center in order to temporarily go along with another current. It would be better for such esotericists to continue with such a partly good or partly evil current for a time or for their whole life than to constantly swing back and forth between one opinion and another.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Esoteric Lesson","site_heading":"Spiritual Centeredness and the Luciferic Challenge of Memory","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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