{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-19/p003","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"The sources of what we call spiritual science, which we visited yesterday, are, on the one hand, criticized by our contemporaries as fantastic and dreamy, if not even more severely, and on the other hand, they are criticized in a very specific way, which we shall deal with today. It consists in the fact that when the subject of initiation is broached, certain dangers are also mentioned that are said to be associated with what is called spiritual science. However, those who speak of these dangers usually have very dark, hazy ideas about what they are supposed to think about these dangers. This cannot be otherwise, because most of them do not have much concept of the content, the task and mission of spiritual science in our time. If we want to shed light on these dangers, we must first distinguish between the fear that our contemporaries have of the general proclamation of spiritual science; this must be distinguished from the dangers of spiritual science that really do exist in some cases, which arise for the one who wants to go to the higher worlds himself, who seeks access to knowledge in the invisible, supersensible.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"37. 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