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• Title: First Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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  • First
  • First Lecture
  • — at least in advanced circles — that the first
  • know that when one first meets the scriptures one adopts the
  • first twelve chapters contain John's experiences in the
  • form the content of the first twelve chapters of the John
  • first five sentences must be taken as a formula of
  • will verify what is said in my first twelve chapters.
  • but man does not normally see it, he must first learn to
  • not altogether a painless procedure when for the first time
  • his first twelve chapters. He describes as an astral
  • mentioned previous to the awakening. He appears for the first
  • he able to say this? Because he had been initiated, first on
• Title: Second Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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  • time I spoke about the first twelve chapters of the Gospel of
  • the etheric body and those belonging to the first elemental
  • possible outside of the body. At the first stage the pupil
  • feet, the first stage of a Christian initiation. Christ
  • sign that he has reached the first stage on the way to
  • signifies the first stage of initiation.
• Title: Third Lecture: The Gospel of St. John
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  • remain dark and unintelligible. First I will remind you of
  • was not Christianity that first made initiation possible. At
  • strict tests. The first grade was the “Raven”. As
  • a Raven an initiate of the first grade — he tries to
  • You can verify this in the John Gospel. Take the first
  • expressed at first on the astral plane as a picture. When a
  • life. The physical plane had first to be mastered. To do
  • *[First Epistle of John, ch. 5, v. 8,