The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

GA 56/1907-10-10/p022 ·1907-10-10 · 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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Now the question may be raised: Why was such a thing hidden from the masses, why is there something that has not been made generally known? When we speak of the dangers of secret science, we will see why those who rightly called themselves secret researchers had the principle of only revealing secret science to those who had matured to it through certain qualities in their lives. Today, however, people have very different views on the dissemination of knowledge than those that have always been customary in secret science. Today, when someone knows something, they cannot wait to see what they know flow from their pen as black ink and fly out into the world in the form of letters printed in ink. But the secret researchers had their reasons for passing on their knowledge only to those who were prepared.

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