38. The Ideals of Humanity and the Ideals of the Initiates
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To see into the soul of Buddha is granted to only a few, and what took place in the soul of Zoroaster can be seen by only a very few; the same applies to Pythagoras, Plato; then the incarnation of the second Logos, Christ; and then the great initiate, the unknown from the highlands, whom history does not even know: Master Jesus. Behind the greatest we always find the very greatest. Just as people allow themselves to be inspired by their leaders, so the leaders allow themselves to be inspired by those who are even greater.
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