The So-Called Dangers of Initiation

Of course, on the other hand, there is a serious danger for the relationship between our contemporaries and the esoteric worldview. This danger is brought about by the fact that our contemporaries, with their worldview and the characters that our time has bred, approach the secret scientific worldview. What prejudices, what superficial judgments do they not bring into this spiritual scientific worldview! How great is the danger that, initially, the secret science, the theosophical worldview itself, will be corrupted here and there by the currents of our time! Herein lies a danger. And here we must point out individual details so that we can look deeper and deeper into the so-called and the real dangers of the secret scientific endeavour.