Initiation or Consecration

GA 56/1907-11-28/p017 ·1907-11-28 · 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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Basically, all this is only preparation for the actual initiation. Those who become disciples of initiation receive certain instructions from their teacher on how to develop the abilities that lie dormant within them. All of this aims at a point that, in the highest sense of the word, leads people into a preliminary depth of the world, into a center from which the rays of world creation and world law emanate. Such a thing exists. This secret could even be expressed in words, and yet it is not expressed. Allow me to make this suggestion from the outset, for even if it sounds mysterious, anyone who thinks about it will find that even the way in which such a thing is expressed is very significant for the feeling one must acquire in order to understand the principle of initiation.

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