Initiation or Consecration

Training here means guidance toward self-discovery. A large part of what human beings must achieve in order to penetrate into the higher worlds lies precisely in that great and powerful feeling that takes hold in the soul when, after being led up to the higher abilities and stages of development, the soul awakens and feels as if it were newly born. It is like the feeling of a person born blind, who until then could only grope, and to whom light and color, brilliance and forms gradually appear out of the dark gloom after the operation. Only when this relationship exists between teacher and student is the relationship a healthy one. It is built on the highest thing that can exist between human beings: freedom. There must be a relationship in which there is nothing, absolutely nothing, of any unjustified influence on the part of the teacher, because everything that is to be developed is brought out of the student himself.