... in good time someone who can help them in a methodical development, they can become very interesting instruments for the study and discovery of this occult world. In all ages there have been initiatory schools, which took up these particularly talented people and educated them in this kind of science. These schools were always more or less secret or hidden, for ordinary men are quite intolerant of ...
... these disciplines which "begin with freedom" that Sri Aurobindo speaks of here? I suppose that Sri Aurobindo is referring to the various disciplines of initiation practised in the various initiatory schools in the days when they had some importance and authority. Our age has become very materialistic and no longer gives Page 255 the same importance and authority to these schools. ...
... last for eight years, until 1958. In the simplest language, a language for children, She brought flowing down, like crystal water, all the occult knowledge which used to be carefully guarded for initiatory schools. These simple classes would constitute the most formidable "de-occultization" ever to take place in History. She wanted nothing "occult," She wanted all the secrets to be told, She wanted all ...
... to what Mother was saying: "A particular mummy has been the cause of a great number of Page 140 calamities. She was a princess, the Pharaoh's daughter, and secretly headed an initiatory school at Thebes." Now, how did Mother know all this about the princess? Was it only through books? Or through some other means? It was Satprem's birthday. Mother meditated with him. After... liked only what 1 understood." Then Mother tailed to mind some 'entertaining memories.' For a time 1 attended a private school. I never went to public school because my mother considered n unfitting lot a girl to be in a public school. But 1 attended a private school that had a great reputation at the time; they had as teachers really highly com mendable men. The geography teacher, a reputed... understood life, loved it frankly, and was endowed with a very universal spirit for which narrow patriotic frontiers seemed a vain and cumbersome contrivance. She sent her eldest son to a boarding school in Vienna, herself commuting between Cairo and Europe, and later dropped off a second, then a third, son at College Chaptal in Paris. "I was wild about Paris. My temperament and character being original ...
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