The So-Called Dangers of Initiation

There are spiritual worlds around human beings — we have described this in previous lectures, and we will delve deeper and deeper into this wisdom — worlds that relate to the ordinary sensory world as the world of color, brilliance, and light relates to the world of touch for the blind; and there is a world that is much higher than what the blind person experiences when he undergoes an operation and light and color begin to shine out of the darkness and desolation. This exists in the higher realm. These worlds are around us. But these worlds are not only worlds of paradise, not only worlds of bliss, although paradise and bliss are in them, but they are also worlds that can be terrible for human beings, dangerous because of facts and entities. If human beings want to gain knowledge of the greatness and bliss of these worlds, they cannot do so without also becoming acquainted with the dangers and terrors they contain. One is not possible without the other.