Initiation or Consecration

The question may now arise: Why, if they have been able to remain silent for so long, do those who know something about these things not remain silent today? Why is the principle of strict secrecy regarding initiation into the higher worlds not still practiced today? Why is it being broken? There is a good reason for this. Humanity is progressing. It is different in the various epochs of its development. And history is also much more diverse in its form and stages of development than the layman believes. Those who do not know these things imagine that people today are the same as they were centuries ago. Even those who have studied history and anthropology tacitly share this mental image. In fact, people from different centuries, who appear to be the same in terms of their external anatomy and physiology, differ greatly from one another. The differences do not usually lie in the gross aspects, and external anatomy and physiology know nothing about where they do lie. Humanity is progressing, and in our era we have arrived at a configuration of the human spirit and soul in which the knowledge of the secrets of the world, the insights, concepts, and ideas that lead us into the depths of things that were otherwise always preserved in the so-called secret schools, are needed for the common good and the progress of humanity.