The way of initiation, or, How to attain knowledge of the higher worlds / by Rudolf Steiner ; with a foreword by Annie Besant ; and some biographical notes of the author by Edouard Schuré.

  • Rudolf Steiner
Date:
1909
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Credit: The way of initiation, or, How to attain knowledge of the higher worlds / by Rudolf Steiner ; with a foreword by Annie Besant ; and some biographical notes of the author by Edouard Schuré. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sure centre-point on which he can depend. No one, without further familiarity with the subject, should feel an antipathy to this principle of self-rejection. For him who has endured the trials already described, it indicates the most perfect felicity. And in this, as in the other stages before mentioned, for many people, everyday life itself can be an occult school. People who have reached the point of being able, when suddenly confronted with some task or problem demanding immediate action, to come to a swift resolution, to act with- out delay or personal consideration, have, indeed, undergone their occult schooling in everyday life. The situation which one wishes to suggest is one in which a successful action is impossible unless the person concerned grasps the whole matter and acts at once. He is quick to act when misfortune is in sight, when a moment’s hesitation may produce a