{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 68a/1907-12-19/p008","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"Thus it happens that the man who stands in everyday life is as a rule little practiced, little prepared for real logical thinking. The importance of the collision of people with Theosophy is usually underestimated when the soul is accustomed to having the dull trains of thought that people have today, and then there is the collision with the penetrating sequences of thoughts that confront people in spiritual science. A person with a sensitive soul, when feeling rules in his heart, notices that true nourishment flows towards him, that a wonderful light shines towards him. When he realizes his inability to grasp it with his trains of thought, it has a devastating, debilitating effect on his soul. This affects the nervous system; especially when he can only rush into theosophy in festive moments, can only take a piece and then has to go back to life. There he feels the unhealthy contrast; there arise those dissatisfied, sick souls, which we see emerging today in many cases from contact with the spiritual teachings.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"37. The Dangers of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-12-19","location":null,"word_count":172,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/68a/1907-12-19/p008","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"The Essence of Christianity","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA068a/English/SOL2024/19071219p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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