The Mission of Esoteric Science in Our Time

Those who are initiated in this way are divided into two classes: actual initiates and clairvoyant people. What is an initiate in the narrower sense? Here we must familiarize ourselves with a characteristic of secret science that is not generally recognized, but which nevertheless exists. The fact is that once the truths of secret science have been proclaimed, once they have been spoken before people, one does not need to be clairvoyant to see and understand them. For clairvoyance is necessary for discovering, but not for understanding, the truths of secret science. Everything that will be said in the course of this winter as a result of research in the higher world could not have been found without clairvoyant gifts, without developing the spiritual eyes and ears that lie dormant in every human being. More details about this will be discussed in connection with the initiation. But once these results have been expressed and clothed in forms that correspond to today's thinking, then everyone can understand them. The objection that one must be clairvoyant in order to understand the things communicated from secret science can never be valid. They are not incomprehensible to those who are not clairvoyant, but to those who do not want to apply their logical mind to its full extent. Once it has been expressed, everything can be understood, even in the highest realms.