The So-Called Dangers of Initiation

GA 56/1907-12-12/p008 ·1907-12-12 · English MediumMedium alignmentSome paragraph re-numbering between this translation and the German original — the locus may slip by a paragraph or two.
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The dangers described there are similar to those that people have experienced with the railroad after decades of using it. The future will prove this. Just as the Bavarian Medical Association was unable to prevent the construction of the railroad, and the Postmaster General in London was unable to prevent the expansion of postal traffic, so too can the spread of Theosophy, which has proven necessary in our time, not be stopped by similar objections.

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