Eleventh Lecture

There had to come a time in human development when this initiatory science receded, when human beings had to use their spiritual power to become more consciously aware of themselves. Human beings received the old initiatory science as if in a dream, as if instinctively. There was no question of human beings developing toward freedom. A development toward freedom has only come about because human beings have been driven away from the beginnings for a time, have lost sight of the initiatory view for a time, and have not gone to the beginnings, but to what are more the ends, the outer sensory revelation, and what can be explored at the ends through experimentation.