37. The Dangers of Initiation

However, a certain danger arises when such people come to Theosophy immaturely and are then literally blinded, literally crushed by what they encounter there. One must not forget that the basis of Theosophy is a coherent and strict thinking, a firmly structured logic that searches step by step for the structure of the world building. There is not much real logic in our lives, no matter how much we boast about how wonderfully far we have come! Even where man seeks advice in popular and other sciences about the questions of existence, one finds only a short-meshed logic. Anyone who is accustomed to rigorous thinking and examines the results of science, when he is forced to follow the lines of thought as science is usually disseminated today, will often feel physical pain from the brutal, rough conclusions. Because as admirable as what science has discovered through its instruments and methods is, the content of thought is usually an incredibly short.