38. The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates
GA 68b/1906-01-16/p007
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In our youth we had uncritical veneration, and we can do nothing better for ourselves than, for example, to make ourselves capable of venerating a person in such a way that when we are told about him and have not yet seen him, he appears to us as beautiful and worthy of veneration. Those who have had many such moods in their youth, who have learned to venerate, have truly developed something of such a mood of the soul that generates real power in life. The real is generated by the real. We gradually struggle to generate real strength by learning to venerate.
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