The So-Called Dangers of Initiation

GA 56/1907-12-12/p028 ·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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We learn this through real thinking that has its roots in the spiritual world. The logic that does not present one-sided laws, but knows that every sentence, like every coin, has two sides, perhaps even more sides, which teaches us to look from the outer to the inner, that is true theosophy, and it often teaches what is superficially called theosophy today. And only that which is not merely superficial but a real danger is called danger here.

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