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Rosicrucian theosophy does not try to arouse the feelings, but through the stupendous facts of the spiritual worlds to let the feelings themselves begin to resound. The Rosicrucian feels it a kind of impertinence to take people by storm with feelings. He leads them along the path of mankind's evolution in the belief that feelings will then arise of themselves. He calls up before them the planet journeying in universal space, knowing that when the soul experiences this fact it will be powerfully gripped in feeling. It is only an empty phrase to say one should address oneself direct to the feelings, that is just indolence. Rosicrucian theosophy lets the facts speak, and if these thoughts flow into the feeling nature and overpower it, then that is the right way. Only what the human being feels of his own accord can fill him with bliss or blessedness. The Rosicrucian lets the facts in the cosmos speak, for that is the most impersonal kind of teaching. It is a matter of indifference who stands before you; you must not be affected by a personality, but by what he tells you of the facts of world-becoming. Thus in the Rosicrucian training that direct veneration for the teacher is struck out, he does not claim it nor require it. He wishes to speak to the pupil of what exists, quite apart from himself. One who will press forward into the higher worlds must accustom himself to the kind of thinking in which one thought proceeds from another. A thinking of this nature is developed in my *Philosophy of Spiritual Activity* and *Truth and Science*. These books are not written in such a way that one can take a thought and put it in another place; much more are they written as an organism arises, one thought grows out of another. These books have nothing at all to do with the one who wrote them; he gave himself up to what the thoughts themselves worked out in him, how they linked themselves one to another.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"XIV. The Nature of Initiation","site_heading":null,"date":"1907-06-06","location":null,"word_count":463,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/99/1907-06-06/p025","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Mabel Cotterell and Dorothy S. 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Sie möchten sich lieber schöne Gefühle aneignen, ernsthaft studieren wollen sie nicht. Doch wenn man sich auch noch so viele schöne Gefühle aneignet in der Seele, es ist unmöglich, dadurch allein in die höheren Welten hinaufzukommen. Nicht Gefühle will die Rosenkreuzer-Theosophie erregen, sondern durch die gewaltigen Tatsachen der geistigen Welten die Gefühle selbst antönen lassen. Als eine Art von Schamlosigkeit empfindet es der Rosenkreuzer, wenn er auf die Menschen losstürmt mit Gefühlen. Er führt sie hinein in den Werdegang der Menschheit in der Voraussetzung, daß die Gefühle dann von selbst entstehen. Er läßt vor ihnen erstehen den wandelnden Planeten im Weltenraume, und wenn die Seele diese Tatsachen erlebt, dann soll sie mächtig ergriffen werden in ihren Gefühlen. Es ist nur eine Herumrederei, wenn man sagt, man solle sich direkt an das Gefühl wenden. Das ist nur eine Bequemlichkeit. 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