Initiation or Consecration

GA 56/1907-11-28/p027 ·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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However, today many people are obsessed with more or less materialistic thinking or with that conceit of infallibility that stems from positivist science. This is pure fantasy. If only people knew that they are basically living under suggestion, that they do not know what is real and what is not real! They do not want to acknowledge the infallibility of the Pope, but they consider themselves infallible. Those who stand on the side of science are the most intolerant today. They regard the spiritual scientist as a fool, and themselves? Well, as infallible human beings! The world that is inaccessible to the senses can only be communicated through thinking that is free of sensuality. Therefore, the first training is the training of thinking, which makes it possible to develop thinking and lead to a real insight into the spiritual worlds.

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