37. The Dangers of Initiation

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However, there are also real dangers for those who seek access to the higher worlds. Unfortunately, we can only read too much about this in some theosophical writings, and they have been written far too blackly there. We do not want to gloss over anything, but we want to watch calmly and objectively to see what the situation is regarding these dangers.

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