Initiation or Consecration

Today, man has attained self-consciousness within himself. They have become capable of relating everything to themselves. But by developing their spiritual eyes and ears, by following the principle of initiation, they dive back into the outer world. They find their higher self in this world. We must not say that we find the divine and spiritual within ourselves. That is an incorrect expression. “Know thyself!” is an old saying. But we must understand it in the same way that the old Adam knew his wife. He fertilized her. It is the same with the organs. Fertilize yourself, let yourself be fertilized by the world. — So what man should achieve is the development of the powers that lie dormant within him... What Goethe says is true: