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The Madman
Khalil Gibran
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You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen,—the seven masks I have fashioned an worn in seven lives,—I ran maskless through the crowded streets shouting, “Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves.” Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried,“He is a madman.” I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the firsttime. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried,“Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks.” Thus I became a madman.
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Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
Rudolf Steiner
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I. How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained? II. The Stages of Initiation III. Some Practical Aspects IV. The Conditions of Esoteric Training V. Some Results of Initiation VI. The Transformation of Dream Life VII. The Continuity of Consciousness VIII. The Splitting of the Human Personality during Spiritual Training IX. The Guardian of the Threshold X. Life and Death. The Greater Guardian of the Threshold

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