First Lecture

We then come to the semi-ancient mysteries, to the mysteries of which at least a small reflection still remains in history, whereas of the mysteries that I have characterized as ancient, nothing emerges into history anymore, but can only be explored through occult science. It was already the time when the gods withdrew from men and no longer descended in their own being into the mysteries, but they still sent down their powers. It was the time when the Act of Consecration of Man was to receive through transubstantiation that splendor of the divine which must ever shine forth in the Act of Consecration of Man.