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Nor is there any discussion of what really needs to be discussed: whether the secret science itself is dangerous, or whether it is only the deeper penetration into it, through familiarization with the methods and exercises that lead people into the spiritual world surrounding us, invisible and imperceptible to the ordinary senses, but perfectly perceptible to the higher senses. Anyone who wants to speak of dangers in this area must make this distinction. However, as I said, it is often not a matter of pointing out specific dangers, but rather of saying: Oh, this secret science or this theosophy makes people unworldly, distances them from what they should actually be concerned with in life, from what they should be interested in. And some circles find it extremely regrettable that this or that member is apparently being snatched away from them because they are beginning to take an interest in theosophy or the secret science on which it is based. This has probably also given rise to the often-expressed judgment that Theosophy makes people impractical, distracts them from the immediate duties of life, and drives them to asceticism and unworldliness.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"The So-Called Dangers of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-12","location":null,"word_count":305,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-12-12/p003","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"eLib2015","book_title":"Knowledge of Soul and Spirit","publisher":null,"publisher_inferred":false,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA056/English/eLib2015/19071212p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line"},"edition_coverage":{"de":["original"],"en":["English"]},"available_versions":[{"lang":"de","edition":"original","edition_basis":null,"is_original":true,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/56/1907-12-12/p003"},{"lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/56/1907-12-12/p003","paragraph_aligned":true}],"record":{"record_type":"unknown","scope":"volume","note":"How this text was taken down (shorthand transcript, listeners' notes or manuscript) is not on record here. 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