Initiation or Consecration

The second is the training of feeling. No one should train feeling before they have brought non-sensual thinking to a certain level. Those who know what these higher worlds are like will tell you one thing: when you ascend to the higher worlds that lie above our physical world, you enter the astral world and then the spiritual or devachanic world. The impressions there are very different from what people who only know the physical world can imagine. Even though all experiences are different, one thing remains the same: logic, healthy thinking. The person who acquires healthy thinking, who is a reasonable person standing firmly on their own two feet, will not be able to go off the rails when they ascend into the worlds that lie beyond the physical world, which offer them surprise after surprise. Those who develop this thinking, which springs from the inner source of the soul and is certain of itself, have a reliable guide even beyond that boundary where it is difficult to distinguish between the physical and the superphysical. With sound thinking, one can cross the abyss that opens up there. If one sails without sound thinking and says: You give me only thoughts; but the power of a god lives within me, why should I not be able to ascend to the higher worlds? — I can only reply: Those who speak thus have no idea what it is like in the higher worlds, where we are not guided by the outer world, where we must have the guide within us if we are not to go astray.