Initiate

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An initiate (GreekΤελέστης Telestes, from τελεῖται teleitai "to reach a goal", "to improve", from Greekτέλος telos "goal"; also Greekεποπται epoptai "eyewitness, seer"[1]) is able, by virtue of the path of training he has followed and the initiation (from Latininitium "entrance, beginning, start") thereby achieved, to recognise the laws of the spiritual world. This ability is based on inspiration, through which the spiritual world expresses itself about its nature. The initiate does not necessarily have to know the spiritual worlds first-hand like a clairvoyant, i.e. he does not necessarily have to have fully developed the ability of imagination.

Literature

References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
  1. In the Mysteries of Eleusis, the third and final stage of the initiatory path was called epoptai.